Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon, PC (15 August 1906 – 10 September 1989)[1] was a Scottish judge and law lord.

He was the son of James Edward Shaw and his wife Gladys Elizabeth Lester (the daughter of the Rev.

[2] Shaw was educated at Charterhouse School and went then to Balliol College, Oxford.

[3] On 5 April 1937, he married Ruth Caroline Grant and had by her two sons and three daughters.

Nearly all its recommendations were enacted in new bills and created the basic structures of child care practices and policies in Scotland.