biography
| name: |
Rose-Innes, Sir James
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pronunciation:
[inis]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1942)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Uitenkage, S South Africa. He studied at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, became attorney general (1890–3, 1900–2), and then judge president (later Chief Justice) of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal (1902–10), judge of appeal (1910–14), and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa (1914–27). He advocated a liberal policy towards the Bantu, and his opinions were notable for his willingness to rely on both the English and Roman–Dutch traditions in South African law. |
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