Sir Geoffrey Gould Briggs was an English lawyer and judge.
11 Facts About Geoffrey Briggs
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Geoffrey Briggs was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in the 1970s and of Brunei in the 1980s.
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Geoffrey Briggs was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford where he took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law.
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Geoffrey Briggs was called to the bar of Gray's Inn in 1938.
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Geoffrey Briggs served during World War II as a Major in the County of London Yeomanry.
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In 1954, Briggs was appointed Attorney General of Eastern Nigeria.
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Geoffrey Briggs was appointed a Queen's Counsel for Nigeria in 1955.
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Geoffrey Briggs served there until 1962 when he was appointed Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
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Geoffrey Briggs served as Chief Justice of Brunei and Hong Kong until 1979.
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Geoffrey Briggs was knighted in the 1974 New Year Honours.
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Geoffrey Briggs continued to serve in a number of judicial roles in retirement, including President of the Brunei Court of Appeals, Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal, Gibraltar and President of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for England and Wales.