Owen Corrie

Sir Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick Corrie (3 March 1882 – 28 August 1965) was a British jurist. He held the position of Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Chief Justice of Fiji between 1936 and 1945. He served as a judge in Mandatory Palestine, the British-occupied zone of post-war Germany and Kenya.

Biography Owen Corrie was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset, and studied the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, earning a BA. He qualified as a solicitor in 1909.

Corrie served in the North Somerset Yeomanry of the British Army during World War I, during which he was in France, Belgium and Palestine. He was awarded the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches twice. After reaching the retirement age for the Colonial Judicial Service, Corrie left Fiji in June 1945 and returned to England. The following year he was appointed to serve as a Supreme Court judge in the British Zone of Germany, a role he held until 1951.

In 1953 he was appointed a puisne judge in Kenya. In 1956 he became Chairman of the Rent Controls Board in Kenya. Between 1958 and 1961 he was an Acting Judge in the East African Court of Appeal.