Fred Kwasi Apaloo

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name = Fred Kwasi Apaloo


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office = Chief Justice of Kenya
termstart = March 1993
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appointer = Daniel arap Moi
predecessor = Alan Hancox
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(19^th of Gold Coast)
termstart2 = 1977
termend2 = 1986
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appointer2 = SMC
predecessor2 = Samuel Azu Crabbe
successor2 = E. N. P. Sowah
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Fred Kwasi Apaloo was the Chief Justice of Ghana between 1977 and 1986. He was the sixth person to hold this position since Ghana became an independent nation. [cite web |url=http://www.judicial.gov.gh/history/list%20of%20judicial%20officials/list%20of%20CJ.htm |title=List of Chief Justices |accessdate=2007-03-28 |work=Official Website |publisher=Judicial Service of Ghana] He was also appointed as the Chief Justice of Kenya in March 1993. [cite web |url=http://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/WR94/Africa-02.htm |title=Human Rights Developments |accessdte=2007-03-28 |year=1994 |work=Overview of Human Rights Developments |publisher=Human Rights Watch |quote=More positively, the much-vilified British expatriate chief justice, Alan Hancox, was replaced in March by Ghanaian judge Fred Apaloo, who indicated that he would be more supportive of an independent judiciary.] [cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/publ/RSDCOI/3ae6a6c2c.html |title=Kenya Since the Elections |accessdate=2007-03-28 |work=WRITENET Reports |publisher=Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |quote=In April 1993, Chief Justice Hancox, a British contract judge whose handling of political cases had been criticized by human rights lawyers, was replaced by a Ghanaian, Justice Fred Apaloo.] He was noted to be against the death penalty while he was in Kenya. [cite web |url=http://g21.net/africa8.html |title=Capital Punishment: Texas to Kenya |author=Robert Oduol |accessdate=2007-03-28 |publisher=GENERATOR 21 Magazine |quote=However, while many Kenyan politicians appear keen to retain capital punishment the majority of the judicial officers who actually pass the sentences are not. A few years ago, Kenya's Chief Justice at the time, Mr Justice Fred Kwasi Apaloo expressed misgivings about the death penalty and urged lawmakers to consider repealing it. ]

He completed his secondary education at Accra Academy in Accra in 1942. [cite web |url=http://www.accraacaalumni.com/PeomsByBleoo2.htm |title=Accra Aca Is Calling |accessdate=2007-03-28 |author=Nikoi Kotey |publisher=Accra Academy alumni]

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*Supreme Court of Ghana