Fred Kwasi Apaloo
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Chief Justice of Kenya
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| In office March 1993 – ???? |
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| Appointed by | Daniel Arap Moi |
| Preceded by | Alan Hancox |
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6thChief Justice of Ghana
(19th of Gold Coast) |
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| In office 1977 – 1986 |
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| Appointed by | SMC |
| Preceded by | Samuel Azu Crabbe |
| Succeeded by | E. N. P. Sowah |
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Supreme Court Judge
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Fred Kwasi Apaloo was the Chief Justice of Ghana between 1977 and 1986. He was the sixth person to hold this position since Ghana became an independent nation.[1] He was also appointed as the Chief Justice of Kenya in March 1993.[2][3] He was noted to be against the death penalty while he was in Kenya.[4]
He completed his secondary education at Accra Academy in Accra in 1942.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ List of Chief Justices. Official Website. Judicial Service of Ghana. Retrieved on March 28, 2007.
- ^ Human Rights Developments. Overview of Human Rights Developments. Human Rights Watch (1994). “More positively, the much-vilified British expatriate chief justice, Alan Hancox, was replaced in March by Ghanaian judge Fred Apaloo, who indicated that he would be more supportive of an independent judiciary.”
- ^ Kenya Since the Elections. WRITENET Reports. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Retrieved on March 28, 2007. “In April 1993, Chief Justice Hancox, a British contract judge whose handling of political cases had been criticized by human rights lawyers, was replaced by a Ghanaian, Justice Fred Apaloo.”
- ^ Robert Oduol. Capital Punishment: Texas to Kenya. GENERATOR 21 Magazine. Retrieved on March 28, 2007. “However, while many Kenyan politicians appear keen to retain capital punishment the majority of the judicial officers who actually pass the sentences are not. A few years ago, Kenya's Chief Justice at the time, Mr Justice Fred Kwasi Apaloo expressed misgivings about the death penalty and urged lawmakers to consider repealing it.”
- ^ Nikoi Kotey. Accra Aca Is Calling. Accra Academy alumni. Retrieved on March 28, 2007.
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| Preceded by Samuel Azu Crabbe |
Chief Justice of Ghana 1977–1986 |
Succeeded by E. N. P. Sowah |
| Preceded by Alan Hancox |
Chief Justice of Kenya 1993–???? |
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Sir Kobina Arku Korsah · J. Sarkodee-Addo · Edward Akufo-Addo · Edmund A.L. Bannerman · Samuel Azu Crabbe · Fred Kwasi Apaloo · E. N. P. Sowah · Philip Edward Archer · Isaac Kobina Abban · Edward Kwame Wiredu · George Kingsley Acquah
