Charles Haddon-Cave

This article is about the High Court judge. For Sir (Charles) Philip Haddon-Cave, Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, see Philip Haddon-Cave.

The Right Honourable
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave
Lord Justice of Appeal
Incumbent
Assumed office
2018
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
High Court Judge
Queen's Bench Division
In office
2011–2018
Personal details
Born (1956-03-20) 20 March 1956 (age 68)
United Kingdom
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge
Charles Haddon-Cave giving the keynote lecture at the Hazards 26 Conference in Edinburgh, 24 May 2016.

Sir Charles Anthony Haddon-Cave (born 20 March 1956), styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and served as the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 2021 to 2022.

Family life

Haddon-Cave is the son of Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, Chief Secretary of Hong Kong between 1981 and 1985, and elder brother of Francis, who was called to the Hong Kong bar in 1999. He is an uncle of the actresses Jessie Cave and Bebe Cave.

Career

Haddon-Cave was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1978, and elected a bencher in 2003. He was also called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1980.[1] Haddon-Cave took silk in 1999, and served as an assistant recorder from 1998 to 2000.[2] He then served as a recorder until his appointment to the High Court on 31 October 2011,[3] upon which occasion he was knighted.[2]

Haddon-Cave led a review into the 2006 RAF Nimrod crash.

He sentenced the Parsons Green bomber to a minimum of 34 years in prison in 2018.[4] He said, "You will have plenty of time to study the Koran in Prison… the Koran is a book of peace… Islam forbids breaking the law of the land…..Islam forbids terror."[5] He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2018. He was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2018, giving him the honorific title "The Right Honourable".

He is the chair of the 2023 Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Hon Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, QC". Debretts.com. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Knighthood conferred". number10.gov.uk. 1 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Senior Judiciary". judiciary.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  4. ^ "Parsons Green terrorist is jailed for at least 34 years after the judge rules he lied about only being 18". The Daily Telegraph. 23 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Parsons Green Tube bomber told to study Koran during life sentence". The Times. 24 March 2018.
  6. ^ "UK opens inquiry into unlawful killing claims in Afghanistan". Associated Press. 22 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.