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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1990

APPOINTMENTS TO THE HIGH COURT

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THE JUDICIARY TODAY (FRIDAY) ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENTS OF TWO HIGH COURT JUDGES

MR JUDGE MOHAMMED SAIED AND

QC WITH EFFECT FROM AUGUST 25, 1989 AND MARCH 26,

MR SAIED WAS BORN IN NAIROBI, PRIMARY AND HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AT 1936 TO 1948. HE RECEIVED HIS LEGAL CALLED TO THE BAR OF THE HONOURABLE NOVEMBER 1954.

NEIL KAPLAN, 1990 RESPECTIVELY.

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KENYA, IN 1930. HE RECEIVED GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL FROM EDUCATION IN LONDON AND WAS SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN IN

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IN 1955, MR SAIED BECAME A MEMBER OF THE KENYA LAW SOCIETY. PRACTISED LAW IN KENYA FROM 1955 TO 1961 WHEN HE JOINED THE UGANDA

CHIEF

JUDICIARY AS A RESIDENT MAGISTRATE. HE IN TURN BECAME MAGISTRATE, PUISNE JUDGE, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT, AND CHIEF JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL BETWEEN 1965 AND 1979.

MR SAIED JOINED THE HONG KONG JUDICIARY AS A MAGISTRATE IN DEPUTY 1980 AND WAS PROMOTED TO DISTRICT JUDGE IN 1983. HE ACTED AS A JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT AT VARIOUS TIMES BETWEEN 1985 AND 1989. MR SAIED IS MARRIED.

MR KAPLAN WAS BORN IN LONDON IN 1942. HE RECEIVED HIS LEGAL EDUCATION AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, WHERE HE RECEIVED A LL.B IN 1964. HE WAS CALLED TO THE ENGLISH BAR IN 1965 AND TO THE HONG KONG BAR IN 1981. HE RECEIVED HIS PUPILLAGE IN THE CHAMBERS OF MR' LEWIS HAWSER, QC, NOW JUDGE HAWSER, AS THE PUPIL OF MR GREVILLE JANNER, QC, MP.

HE PRACTISED IN LONDON FOR

16 YEARS, WHERE HE BUILT UP A SUBSTANTIAL PRACTICE AND A FINE REPUTATION. HIS PRACTICE CONTAINED BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS, WITH SOME SPECIALISATION IN BUILDING AND COMMERCIAL CASES.

HE WAS APPOINTED A DEPUTY PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL IN THE CHAMBERS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HONG KONG IN DECEMBER 1980. IN 1982, HE BECAME DEPUTY CROWN SOLICITOR AND WENT

PRIVATE PRACTICE IN HONG KONG IN JANUARY 1984.

INTO

MR KAPLAN IS THE CHAIRMAN

OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS AND A MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL

CENTRE. HE IS ALSO A VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF JUSTICE.

ARBITRATION

MR KAPLAN IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN.

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