| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable Dato Setia |
| Sir Geoffrey Briggs | |
| Honorific Suffix: | DSNB QC |
| Office: | 1st Chief Justice of Brunei |
| Term Start: | 1963 |
| Term End: | 18 June 1979 |
| Nominator: | Omar Ali Saifuddien III |
| Predecessor: | Office established |
| Successor: | Denys Roberts |
| Office1: | 19th Chief Justice of Hong Kong |
| Term Start1: | 1973 |
| Term End1: | 1978 |
| Predecessor1: | Ivo Rigby |
| Successor1: | Denys Roberts |
| Office2: | 14th Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific |
| Term Start2: | 1962 |
| Term End2: | 1965 |
| Predecessor2: | Albert Lowe |
| Successor2: | Jocelyn Bodilly |
| Birth Name: | Geoffrey Gould Briggs |
| Birth Date: | 6 May 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Death Place: | Bath, Somerset, England |
| Occupation: | Judge and law officer |
| Rank: | Major |
| Battles: | World War II |
| Alma Mater: | Christ Church (BA; BCL) |
Sir Geoffrey Gould Briggs (6 May 1914 – 12 May 1993)[1] was an English lawyer and judge. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in the 1970s and of Brunei in the 1980s.
Briggs was born in 1914, the second son of Reverend C. E. Briggs of Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford where he took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law. He was called to the bar of Gray's Inn in 1938. He served during World War II as a Major in the County of London Yeomanry.[1]
In 1954, Briggs was appointed Attorney General of Eastern Nigeria. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel for Nigeria in 1955.[2] In 1958, he was appointed Puisne Judge of the Unified Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei.[3] He served there until 1962 when he was appointed Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
In 1965, he was appointed Puisne Judge in Hong Kong and later promoted to Chief Justice of Hong Kong in 1973 upon the retirement of Ivo Rigby. In that position, he served concurrently as Chief Justice of Brunei. He served as Chief Justice of Brunei and Hong Kong until 1979. He was knighted in the 1974 New Year Honours.
Briggs retired to England in 1979. He continued to serve in a number of judicial roles in retirement, including President of the Brunei Court of Appeals (1979–1988), Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal, Gibraltar (1983 to 1988) and President of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for England and Wales (1980 to 1987). He died in Bath in 1993.[4] [5]