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Charles Haddon-Cave

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Lord Justice Haddon-Cave
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Court of Appeal Judge
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 67)
United Kingdom
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge
Charles Haddon-Cave giving the keynote lecture at the Hazards 26 Conference in Edinburgh, 24 May 2016.
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 is the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales.

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.

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Philip Haddon-Cave

Philip Haddon-Cave

Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave,, was a British colonial administrator. He was the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981 and the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong from 1981 to 1985. During his tenure of Financial Secretary, he famously coined the term "positive non-interventionism" as its chief principle, which has long-lasting effect on Hong Kong and world's economic philosophy.

Chief Secretary for Administration

Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chief Secretary is head of the Government Secretariat which oversees the administration of the Region to which all other ministers belong, and is accountable for his or her policies and actions to the Chief Executive and to the Legislative Council. Under Article 53 of the Basic Law, the position is known as "Administrative Secretary". As the second highest ranking public official in Hong Kong, the Chief Secretary acts as Acting Chief Executive when the Chief Executive is absent.

Jessie Cave

Jessie Cave

Jessica Alice Cave Lloyd is an English actress, comedian and cartoonist, known for her role as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter film series and for her shows in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has also published a book of cartoon doodles called Love Sick, some of the designs in which have appeared on greeting cards. A comedic play based on her life and relationships, Sunrise, was first performed in 2019. Cave's first novel, Sunset, was published in 2021.

Bebe Cave

Bebe Cave

Bebe Cave is an English actress.

Career

Haddon-Cave was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1978, and elected a bencher in 2003. He was 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]

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Gray's Inn

Gray's Inn

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these inns. Located at the intersection of High Holborn and Gray's Inn Road in Central London, the Inn is a professional body and provides office and some residential accommodation for barristers. It is ruled by a governing council called "Pension," made up of the Masters of the Bench and led by the Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The Inn is known for its gardens which have existed since at least 1597.

Bencher

Bencher

A bencher or Master of the Bench is a senior member of an Inn of Court in England and Wales or the Inns of Court in Northern Ireland, or the Honorable Society of King's Inns in Ireland. Benchers hold office for life once elected. A bencher can be elected while still a barrister, in recognition of the contribution that the barrister has made to the life of the Inn or to the law. Others become benchers as a matter of course when appointed as a High Court judge. The Inn may elect non-members as honorary benchers – for example, distinguished judges and lawyers from other countries, eminent non-lawyers or members of the British Royal Family, who become known as "Royal Benchers" once elected.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world.

Honorific

Honorific

An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to an honorary academic title. It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers. Honorifics can be used as prefixes or suffixes depending on the appropriate occasion and presentation in accordance with style and customs.

The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia.

Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry

Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry

The Afghan Unlawful Killing inquiry is a British public inquiry into extrajudicial killings that took place in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, during War in Afghanistan (2001–2021).

Source: "Charles Haddon-Cave", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 27th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haddon-Cave.

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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 28 July 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.

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