Sir Charles Anthony Haddon-Cave (born 20 March 1956), styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is a British judge of the

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and is the

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. Haddon-Cave was called to the Bar (

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) in 1978, and elected a

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in 2003. He was called to the Bar in

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in 1980. Haddon-Cave

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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. Haddon-Cave is the son of Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave,

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between 1981 and 1985, and elder brother of 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 appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2018. He was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2018, giving him the

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title "

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". Haddon-Cave is an uncle of the actresses

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and

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