FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1985
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APPOINTMENT OF HIGH COURT JUDGES
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THE QUEEN HAS APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICT JUDGE HOPKINSON AND FORMER LAW DRAFTSMAN GERALD PAUL NAZARETH, Q.C. AS JUDGES OF THE HIGH COURT.
HE WAS JUDGE HOPKINSON WAS BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1924. EDUCATED IN PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, OBTAINED A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN 1948 AND A MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN 1953. HE PASSED THE BAR EXAMINATION IN 1948 AND WAS CALLED TO THE BAR BY LINCOLN'S INN IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
HE WAS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE UNTIL HE JOINED THE COLONIAL OFFICE AS LEGAL ASSISTANT IN 1950. HE SERVED AS A MAGISTRATE IN UGANDA FROM 1955 TO 1962.
HE JOINED THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN HONG KONG IN 1962 AS CROWN COUNSEL AND WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL IN 1963.
JUDGE HOPKINSON JOINED THE JUDICIARY AS SENIOR MAGISTRATE IN 1966. TWO YEARS LATER, HE REJOINED THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AS
HE WAS PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL. CROWN COUNSEL IN 1973.
IN 1974, HE WAS APPOINTED AS A DISTRICT JUDGE AND HAS SAT AS A COMMISSIONER AND DEPUTY JUDGE OF HIGH COURT ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS IN RECENT YEARS. HE IS PRESENTLY SO SITTING.
HE WAS CALLED TO THE MR NAZARETH WAS BORN IN KENYA IN 1932. BAR BY LINCOLN'S INN IN 1962 AND WAS AWARDED THE O.B.E. IN 1975, TOOK SILK IN 1981, AND WAS AWARDED THE C.B.E. IN 1985.
HE SERVED IN KENYA BETWEEN 1954 AND 1962, WHERE HE ROSE TO THE RANK OF SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE IN 1963 AS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REMAINED IN THAT POST UNTIL 1966.
FROM 1967 TO 1972, HE WAS A VISITING FELLOW AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND LEGAL ADVISER TO THE WESTERN PACIFIC HIGH COMMISSION.
IN 1976 HE CAME TO HONG KONG AS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL. IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR HE WAS APPOINTED PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL AND IN 1979 HE WAS PROMOTED TO THE POST OF LAW DRAFTSMAN. HE HAS BEEN SITTING AS A DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT SINCE OCTOBER 1984.
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