Sir Charles Trevor Reeve (4 July 1915 – 7 December 1993) was a British barrister and High Court judge, who sat in the

Family Division The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Courts of England and Wales, Senior Cour ...

of the High Court from 1973 to 1988. Reeve was the first instance judge in ''

Miller v Jackson ''Miller v Jackson'' 977QB 966 is a famous Court of Appeal of England and Wales case in the torts of negligence and nuisance. The court considered whether the defendant - the chairman of a local cricket club, on behalf of its members - was li ...

'', which was memorably overruled by

Lord Denning Alfred Thompson Denning, Baron Denning, (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999), was an English barrister and judge. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1923 and became a King's Counsel in 1938. Denning became a judge in 1944 when he w ...

in the

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. His wife was the actress Marjorie Browne.

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