Allan Hancox

Allan Robin Winston Hancox, CBE (1932 – 1 January 2013) was a Chief Justice of Kenya. He served between 1989 and 1993, and was succeeded by Fred Kwasi Apaloo.

Born and educated in England, Justice Hancox first joined the judiciary as a magistrate in Kenya Colony in 1957. He subsequently worked in Nigeria, before returning to Kenya in 1963 as a senior resident magistrate. In 1969, he was appointed a High Court Judge.

In 1986, the then President Daniel arap Moi appointed Justice Hancox as the only member of a Commission Inquiring into the Insurance Industry.

He was conferred a C.B.E. in the 1994 New Year Honours List.

He retired to live in Guernsey and became Assistant Magistrate for ten years. He died aged 80 years at the Aga Khan hospital in the town of Kisumu.