Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (1926–2016) was an English barrister and judge. He was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment, first published in 1966. He practised as a commercial barrister from 1951 to 1975, and then began his career as a judge. He was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in 1986 and was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1996 until his retirement in 1998. Goff long advocated a complementary view of the roles of the legal academic and judge. The former Lord Justice of Appeal 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". For building bridges between judges in the United Kingdom and Germany, Goff was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (First Class).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Domingo
1819:
British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_modern_Singapore
1951:
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_train_derailment
1987:
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
koha: 1. (New Zealand) A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts. 2. (New Zealand, by extension) A voluntary donation given for a service that has been provided. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/koha
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other. I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depths of suffering and the peaks of triumph. And I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life. --Ronald Reagan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
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