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Chief Justice of Zanzibar

Zanzibar became a British protectorate following the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890.^[2]AnOrder of Council created Her Britannic Majesty's Court for Zanzibar with a presiding judge in 1897^[3] and another Order established the High Court in 1925.^[4] The protectorate gained its independence in December 1963 as a constitutional monarchy and after a revolution a month later was transformed into the Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba.^[5]

In 1964 it merged with Tanganyika into the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later in that year was renamed to United Republic of Tanzania.^[6] Despite the unification both parts of the new state retained their former judicial systems.

Chief Judges of Zanzibar[edit]

• 1897–1901: Walter Borthwick Cracknall^[7]
• 1901–1904: George Bettesworth Piggott^[8]
• 1904–1914: Lindsey Smith^[9]
• 1915–1919: James William Murison^[10]
• 1919–1925: Thomas Symonds Tomlinson^[11]

Chief Justices of Zanzibar[edit]

• 1925–1928: Thomas Symonds Tomlinson^[11]
• 1928–1933: George Hunter Pickering^[12]
• 1934–1939: Charles Ewan Law^[13]
• 1939–1941: John Verity^[14]
• 1941–1952: John Milner Gray^[15]
• 1952–1955: George Gilmour Robinson^[16]
• 1955–1959: Ralph Windham^[17]
• 1959–1964: Gerald MacMahon Mahon^[18]
• 1964–1969: Revolutionary Council (Chief Justice: Geoffrey Jonas Horsfall)
• 1970–1978: Ali Haji Pandu
• 1985–2011: Hamid Mahmoud Hamid
• 2011–2021 Omar Makungu^[19]
• 2021-Khamis Ramadhan Abdalla^[20]

See also[edit]

• Chief Justice of Tanzania

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