Sir Reginald William Goff, PC (22 March 1907 – 17 January 1980) was a British judge. He was a

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between 1975 and his death in 1980, when he was known as Lord Justice Goff.

Biography

The son of William Kingsley Goff and Louisa Goff, Reginald Goff was educated at Sutton County Grammar School,

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(Fellow, 1970) and University College London (Fellow, 1968). He took an LL.B. with first-class honours in 1928, and won the Certificate of Honour in the Bar examination the same year. He was called to the bar by

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in 1929 (Bencher, 1959; Treasurer, 1974). During the Second World War, he served in the

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until 1942, then in the Royal Air Force until 1946; he was an assistant judge advocate general from 1945 to 1946. Goff was appointed a

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in 1953 and was elected to the General Council of the Bar in 1958. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 1965 and received the customary

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, and was assigned to the

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. On the High Court bench, he was judicially known as Mr Justice Goff. He was appointed a

in 1975 and was sworn of the

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. Goff died on 17 January 1980; the next day, his judgment in ''McIlkenny v Chief Constable of the West Midlands''

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, was read out in court by Sir George Baker. Goff is sometimes confused with the better-known Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, who was a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1982 and 1986, and who was known judicially as Mr Justice Robert Goff and Lord Justice Robert Goff. See the judgment of Lord Scott of Foscote in '' Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd''

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Family

Goff married in 1944 Marjorie Morwenna Curnow, daughter of the Rev. A. Garfield Curnow; they had two daughters.

Notable cases

* '' Re Gulbenkian's Settlements Trusts'' - overturned on appeal * '' Re Denley’s Trust Deed''

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1 Ch 373 * '' Re West Sussex Constabulary's Widows, Children and Benevolent (1930) Fund Trusts'' 971Ch 1 * '' Aluminium Industrie Vaassen BV v Romalpa Aluminium Ltd'' 9761 WLR 676 * '' DHN Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets LBC'' 9761 WLR 852 * '' Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd'' 978Ch 231 * '' Re Osoba''

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1 WLR 247 * '' Re Gray's Inn Construction Co Ltd''

1 WLR 711 * '' Belmont Finance Corp Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd (No 2)''

1 All ER 393 * '' Stonegate Securities Ltd v Gregory''

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References

* ''The Times'', 18 January 1980 * ''The Daily Telegraph'', 18 January 1980 * ''Who's Who'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Goff, Reginald Knights Bachelor 1980 deaths Chancery Division judges Lords Justices of Appeal Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of Lincoln's Inn English King's Counsel People educated at Sutton Grammar School Alumni of King's College London Alumni of University College London Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Auxiliary firefighters Royal Air Force airmen Royal Air Force officers British firefighters 1907 births