Allan Hancox

Alan Robin Winston Hancox ( born 1932 in England; † January 1, 2013 in Kisumu, Kenya) was under Daniel arap Moi in Kenya Chief Justice (1989-1993).

Life

Alan Hancox was born in 1932 in England and grew up there. From 1954 he was a barrister in England, From 1957 he was a contract judge in Kenya, first as a resident magistrate and in the same year as State Counsel at the Attorney General. Between 1961 and 1963 worked as a Senior Resident Magistrate Hancox resident magistrate in Nigeria and then again in Kenya. As of July 5, 1965, he worked as Deputy Registrar of the High Court in Mombasa.

To 1 October 1969 Hancox was appointed as a judge to the High Court and on 30 September 1975, he was also active as a member of the Review Tribunals. For Judge of the Court of Appeals Alan Hancox was appointed from 4 November 1982.

He was the only member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Insurance Industry (also Hancox Commission), which was established in 1986. The report was issued only to selected interest groups of the insurance industry and not issued to the public. From December 10 1987 to 12 October 1989, he was chairman of the Kenya Law Reform Commission.

To the Chief Justice Hancox was appointed on 22 September 1989, at the time of opening to the multi-party system. His contract ran until the end of 1992, by the intersection with the presidential election, his contract was extended until the end of March 1993. Hancox was succeeded by Ghanaian Judge Fred Kwasi Apaloo. He was the last active contract in Kenya judges, which was partially paid for by the British government.

He then moved to Guernsey and was there until 2002, Assistant Magistrate. In 1997, he was sworn in as Lieutenant Bailiff and in 2008 went into retirement. On 1 January 2013, died Alan Hancox, a step-son of Kenya's Chief Justice James Wicks, in the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu.

Criticism

Alan Hancox was considered loyal to the Government of Kenya. Shortly after his appointment as Chief Justice Hancox called on lawyers to loyalty to the president. In addition, he ruled in Mwangi Stephen Muriithi case v Attorney General that members of the public service obligations to act in favor of the president. He put the pro-government contract judge Norbury Dugdale as a duty judge and thus rendered Dugdale decisions whether charges will be accepted and which Judge edit it. In this position, he blocked claims for enforcement of the constitutional human rights.

Partly because of these decisions, he was repeatedly criticized by the Law Society of Kenya ( LSK ). Towards the end of his tenure, he suppressed the rights of the LSK. In 1991 there were a petition of 107 lawyers who Hancox ' demanded resignation at a meeting and the British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd were urging to stop the payments.

Medals received

  • Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya on 12 December 1989
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1993

Publications

He worked at the Kenya Appeal Reports, also called Hancox reports that Butterworths than two volumes by the publisher Law were published. Contents of this publication are the decisions of the Court of Appeal from 1982 to 1992.

  • Kenya Court of Appeal Report ( 1982-1988 ). Butterworths Law. London 1991. ISBN 978-0-406-33026-0
  • Kenya Court of Appeal Report ( 1988-1992). Butterworths Law. London 1994. ISBN 978-0-406-01034-6
  • Decisions of the Court of Appeal for Kenya: unofficial reports, Volume 1-7. Kaplan & Stratton. Nairobi from 1983 to 1989.
40487
de