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DRAFT
SUBMISSION
Type 1 +
From
To:-
H.M. The Queen
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Not to be
submitted by
the Secretary
Mr. Secretary Stewart, with his humble duty to
The Queen, begs to submit for Your Majesty's approval
the name of Sir Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby for
of State until appointment as Chief Justice, Hong Kong, in succession
it has been
to Sir Michael Hogan.
ascertained
that Sir Ivo
Sir Ivo Rigby who was born on 2 June, 1911, was
Rigby is willing educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
He was
to let his name
called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in June 1932, go forward for
and practiced in London until October 1935. In that appointment see paragraph 2 month he was appointed to the Colonial Legal Service
of Submission.
and posted to The Gambia as a Police Magistrate.
In 1938 he was transferred to Palestine as a Chief
Magistrate and promoted to Crown Council in 1942,
and to President, District Court in 1946.
again transferred in 1948, to Nyasaland as an
Assistant Judge, and in November 1954 he became
President of the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur,
Federation of Malaya. During 1956 he acted as a
Puisne Judge and was confirmed in this post during
1957. Since August 1961 he has served in Hong Kong
He was
as Senior Puisne Judge, and has frequently acted as
Chief Justice.
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