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Tuesday, March 27, 1973
MR. JUSTICE BRIGGS TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE
Mr. Roberts Appointed Colonial Secretary
Two senior appointments have been announced today.
Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to instruct that the Hon.
Mr. Justice Briggs should be appointed as Chief Justice, Hong Kong, to succeed
Sir Ivo Rigby who leaves on retirement in May 1973..
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has
appointed Mr. Denys Tudor Emil Roberts, C.B.E., Q.C., to be Colonial Secretary
to succeed Sir Hugh Norman-Walker who leaves Hong Kong at the end of the year.
Mr. Justice Briggs, who was born in 1914, is single. He has been a
puisne judge in Hong Kong since November 1965. He was educated at Sherborne
and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar of Gray's Inn in 1938.
During the Second World War he served in the army. He joined the Colonial
Service in Nigeria as a Crown Counsel in 1947. Later he was Attorney General,
Eastern Region, Nigeria and appointed a 9.C. in 1955..
He was a puisme judge in Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei between
1958 and 1962 and was Chief Justice of the Western Pacific (1962-1964) before
coming to Hong Kong in 1965.
Mr. Roberts, who was born in 1923, is married and has two children. He
was educated at Aldenham School and Wadham College, Oxford: he served in the
aruy from 1943 to 1946.
Mr. Roberts is a Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln's Inn (1950) and was appointed
Crown Counsel in Nyasaland in 1953. He was appointed Attorney General in Gibraltar
in 1960 and transferred to Hong Kong as Solicitor General in 1962, He has served
as Attorney General since November 1966. He was awarded the 0.B.E. in 1960 and the
C.B.E. in 1970.
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