Charles Haddon-Cave
Sir Charles Anthony Haddon-Cave, styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is a British judge serving in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Haddon-Cave was called to the Bar in 1978, and elected a bencher in 2003. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1980. Haddon-Cave took silk in 1999, and served as an assistant recorder from 1998 to 2000. He then served as a recorder until his appointment to the High Court on 31 October 2011, upon which occasion he was knighted.
Sir Charles is the son of Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981, and elder brother to Francis, who was called to the Hong Kong bar in 1999.
Haddon-Cave led a review into the 2006 RAF Nimrod crash.
He sentenced the Parsons Green bomber to a minimum of 34 years in prison in 2018. He said, “You will have plenty of time to study the Koran in Prison… the Koran is a book of peace… Islam forbids breaking the law of the land…..Islam forbids terror.”
He was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2018, giving Him the Honorific Title "The Right Honourable" for Life.
Haddon-Cave is uncle to the actresses Jessie Cave & Bebe Cave.
