Anthony Ray Gubbay (born 26 April 1932) is the former Chief Justice of the

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. He served in the position from 1990 to 2001, when he was forced to take early retirement and replaced by

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. 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

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Personal life

He married Alice Wilma Sanger in 1962, and has two sons. He currently resides in

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. Anthony Gubbay has

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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 {{Zimbabwe-bio-stub