The honourable Mr. Justice Ralph M.J. Hutchinson.(retired judge)(British Columbia)

From: The Advocate | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Roberts, David | Copyright information

Ralph Maurice James Hutchinson was born in 1930 in the former British protectorate of Tanganyika where his parents then lived. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Kenya, and his father became a civil servant in the education department of the Kenyan civil service. He was headmaster of a number of up-country schools in the colony and the administrator of the primary schools in the area. In consequence, Ralph Hutchinson grew up bilingual in English and Swahili, which he still ...

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