Reginald Goff

Sir Reginald William Goff, PC (22 March 1907 – 17 January 1980) was a British judge.

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.

He was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 1965 and received the customary knighthood, and was assigned to the Chancery Division.

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.

See the judgment of Lord Scott of Foscote in Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd [2008] UKHL 55, at [24].

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