Fred Kwasi Apaloo

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Fred Kwasi Apaloo
Chief Justice of Kenya
In office March 1993 – ????
Appointed by	Daniel Arap Moi
Preceded by	Alan Hancox
6^thChief Justice of Ghana (19^th of Gold Coast)
In office 1977 – 1986
Preceded by	Samuel Azu Crabbe
Succeeded by	E. N. P. Sowah
Supreme Court Judge

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 2007-03-28.
^ 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 2007-03-28. “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 2007-03-28. “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 2007-03-28.

[edit] See also

Supreme Court of Ghana

Legal offices
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–????	Succeeded by unknown

v • d • e Chief Justices of Ghana

Nkrumah era	Sir Kobina Arku Korsah • J. Sarkodee-Addo

Military rule	Edward Akufo-Addo^† • Edmund A.L. Bannerman • Samuel Azu Crabbe • Fred Apaloo ^† • E. N. P. Sowah

Democratic era	Philip Edward Archer^† • Isaac Kobina Abban • Edward Kwame Wiredu • George Kingsley Acquah • Georgina Wood

^† served in both military and democratic eras