Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley

British judge

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1926

Place of Birth: Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Aug-2016

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley

  • Robert Lionel Archibald Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, () (12 November 1926 – 14 August 2016) was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent of today's President of the Supreme Court.
  • Best known for establishing unjust enrichment as a branch of English law, he has been described by Andrew Burrows as "the greatest judge of modern times".
  • Goff was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading authoritative English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment, first published in 1966.
  • He practiced as a commercial barrister from 1951 to 1975, following which he began his career as a judge.
  • He was appointed to the House of Lords in 1986. Goff was born in his mother's family home in Perthshire, Scotland and was raised in Hampshire, England.
  • He obtained a place at New College, Oxford but was called up in December 1944 and served in the Scots Guards in Italy until going to Oxford in October 1948.
  • He earned a First-Class degree in Jurisprudence there, and three weeks after receiving his examination results was offered a fellowship at Oxford.
  • He accepted this on condition that he could be called to the Bar first.
  • He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1951, and appointed Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford and a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence in 1952.
  • He was High Steward of the University of Oxford from 1991 to 2001. As one of the few early academics-turned-judges, Goff long advocated a complementary view of the role of the legal academic and judge.
  • In the Maccabean Lecture to the British Academy in 1983, Goff described the two as on a shared "search for principle", and said that it was the fusion of their work that led to the development of the common law.
  • In this respect, Stephen Tomlinson said that "no judge has done more than Robert to ensure that the views of legal academic commentators now regularly inform the decision-making in our higher courts".Towards the later part of his life, he also developed an interest in sharing perspectives with foreign lawyers and judges.
  • In particular, he believed that the common law was a uniquely adaptable system which he believed deserved better understanding in civil law jurisdictions.
  • For building bridges between judges in the United Kingdom and Germany, Goff was awarded the German Grand Cross (Order of Merit).

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