Education
Prior to being created a Law lord and receiving a life peerage as Baron Goff of Chieveley in the County of Berkshire in 1986, Lord Goff studied at Eton College and at New College, Oxford.
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Prior to being created a Law lord and receiving a life peerage as Baron Goff of Chieveley in the County of Berkshire in 1986, Lord Goff studied at Eton College and at New College, Oxford.
Lord Goff, High Steward of the University of Oxford, retired in 1998 as the Senior Law Lord after more than a decade as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lord) in the House of Lords. On 1 October 1996, The Lord Keith of Kinkel retired as Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Lord Goff succeeded him, Lord Goff remained in the role until his own retirement. He served in the army and as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, practised as a barrister and Queen"s Counsel, and was appointed to the High Court in 1975 and to the Court of Appeal in 1982.
Lord Goff, co-author of Goff & Jones, The Law of Restitution, is the acknowledged father of English restitution law, and has served on many important cases in the House of Lords
Lord Goff gave many important judgments, including his judgments in the following cases:
Boite Postale Exploration Company (Libya) Limited v Hunt 1 WLR 783
Elanco Products Limited v Mandops (Agrochemical Specialists) Limited FSR 46
Daulia Limited v Four Millbank Nominees Limited Ch 231
Cambridge Water Company Limited v Eastern Counties Leather plc 1 All Emergency 53 – explained the relationship between Private Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher
Collins v Wilcock 3 All Emergency 374 – In his judgement in this case he defines both battery and assault which has become the accepted definitions.
Spiliada v Cansulex Limited Air Corps 460
Attorney-General v Observer Limited. and Others. 1 Air Corps 109
R v R 1 Air Corps 599
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Limited 4 All Emergency 331
R v Gough 2 All Emergency 724
Lord Napier v Kershaw Air Corps 713
The Pioneer Container 2 Air Corps 324
Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC Air Corps 669 (dissenting on the question of the award of compound interest) "Number genetic engineering is required, only that the warm sun of judicial creativity should exercise its benign influence rather than remain hidden behind the dark clouds of legal history."
Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Limited 2 Air Corps 145
Hunter v Canary Wharf Limited A.C. (before Christ) 655 – leading case on Private Nuisance
White v Jones Air Corps 207
Kleinwort Benson Limited v Lincoln City Council 2 Air Corps 349
Re Pinochet UKHL
Attorney General v Blake 1 Air Corps 268.
He is the President of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and was awarded the Grand Gross (First Class) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to British awareness of German law.
(Goff and Jones is the definitive work on restitution prov...)
