Dato Seri Paduka Sir Denys Tudor Emil Roberts (羅拔時), KBE., SPMB was Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1973 to 1978 (The title of Colonial Secretary was changed to Chief Secretary at 1976). The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the various British colonies. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

Born into a middle class family in England, Roberts served briefly in the British Army before reading law at Oxford. Upon obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law there in 1948, he practiced briefly as a barrister in London and joined the Attorney General's Office of Malawi as a crown counsel in 1951. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Bachelor of Civil Law or BCL is the name of various degrees in law in English-speaking countries. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in Ireland and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in some Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ... This article is about the British city. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

For the next decade, Roberts would serve in various African colonies. In 1960, he was promoted to become Solicitor General of Gibraltar. Two years later, he was transferred to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Roberts held a series of important offices. He was first appointed Attorney General in 1966, then Colonial Secretary in 1973 and Chief Secretary in 1976. In 1979, then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, appointed him Chief Justice. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Governor of Hong Kongs Flag, 1959–1997 The Governor of Hong Kong (香港總督 / 港督) was a British official who ruled Hong Kong during the colonial period between 1841 and 1997 and was ex-officio Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of Hong Kong. ... Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch KT, GBE, KCMG, KCVO, PC, HonLLD, MA (October 16, 1917 - May 27, 2000) was the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. ... The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth- or other countries with an Anglosaxon type of justice, such as the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme...

Sir Denys served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong from 1978 to 1988. He also served as Chief Justice of Brunei Darussalam from 1978 to 2001, a practice continued by his successor Yang Ti-liang (as President of the Court of Appeals) until 1993. The Supreme Court was the highest court in Hong Kong prior to the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997 and heard cases passed on from the lower courts. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sultanate of Brunei, more commonly referred to as Brunei Darussalam or simply Brunei, is an oil-rich country located on the island of Borneo, in southeast Asia. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Yang Ti Liang (楊鐵樑) (born 1929 in Shanghai, China) is a retired judge in Hong Kong and a former Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1988-1996). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

He was the last non-Chinese Chief Justice appointed to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. The Supreme Court was the highest court in Hong Kong prior to the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997 and heard cases passed on from the lower courts. ...

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• Dato Seri Paduka Sir Denys Tudor Emil Roberts, KCMG., SPMB