Anthony Ray Gubbay (born 26 April 1932) is the former Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court
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of
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
. He served in the position from 1990 to 2001, when he was forced to take early retirement and replaced by
Godfrey Chidyausiku
Godfrey Guwa Chidyausiku (23 February 1947 – 3 May 2017) was a Zimbabwean judge and politician. He was involved in politics during Rhodesia's unilaterally declared independence, being a member of the Rhodesia House of Assembly. After Zimbabwean ...
.
He was previously a Supreme Court judge (1983–1990), High Court judge (1977–1983), and advocate in a private practice in 1974.
In 1994 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from
University of Essex
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.
Personal life
He married Alice Wilma Sanger in 1962, and has two sons. He currently resides in
Vancouver
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. Anthony Gubbay has
Jewish
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ancestry.
[European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe, Vol. 36, No. 2, p123]
References
1932 births
Chief justices of Zimbabwe
Judges of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe
Living people
People from Harare
White Rhodesian people
Zimbabwean people of British descent
Zimbabwean people of Jewish descent
20th-century Zimbabwean judges
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