Reginald Goff

The Right Honourable
Sir Reginald Goff
The Right Honourable Sir Reginald Goff
Lord Justice of Appeal
	In office; 1975 – 17 January 1980
Justice of the High Court
	In office; 1965–1975
Personal details
Born	22 March 1907
Died	17 January 1980 (aged 72)
Spouse	Marjorie Morwenna Curnow
Children	2
Alma mater	King's College, London; University College, London

Sir Reginald William Goff, PC (22 March 1907 – 17 January 1980) was a British judge. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal 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, King's College London (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 Lincoln's Inn in 1929 (Bencher, 1959; Treasurer, 1974). During the Second World War, he served in the Auxiliary Fire Service 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 Queen's Counsel 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 knighthood, and was assigned to the Chancery Division. On the High Court bench, he was judicially known as Mr Justice Goff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1975 and was sworn of the Privy Council.

Goff died on 17 January 1980; the next day, his judgment in McIlkenny v Chief Constable of the West Midlands [1980] QB 283, a case concerning the Birmingham Six, 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 [2008] UKHL 55, at [24].

Family

Arms displayed at Lincoln's Inn[1]

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 [1969] 1 Ch 373
Re West Sussex Constabulary's Widows, Children and Benevolent (1930) Fund Trusts [1971] Ch 1
Aluminium Industrie Vaassen BV v Romalpa Aluminium Ltd [1976] 1 WLR 676
DHN Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets LBC [1976] 1 WLR 852
Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd [1978] Ch 231
Re Osoba [1979] 1 WLR 247
Re Gray's Inn Construction Co Ltd [1980] 1 WLR 711
Belmont Finance Corp Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd (No 2) [1980] 1 All ER 393
Stonegate Securities Ltd v Gregory [1980] Ch 576

References

"Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Wd18 Goff, R". Baz Manning. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

Sources

The Times, 18 January 1980
The Daily Telegraph, 18 January 1980

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[1] "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Wd18 Goff, R". Baz Manning. Retrieved 16 June 2022.