Sir Christopher John Slade (2 June 1927 – 7 February 2022) was a British judge who was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1982 to 1991.

Personal life

His father was George Penkivil Slade. He had two brothers (

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and Julian), as well as a sister. Slade was educated at New College, Oxford, and was awarded the Eldon Scholarship.

Marriage

He married Jane Buckley in 1958. The couple had four children, Lucinda (born 1959), Victoria (born 1962), Richard (born 1963) and Amelia (born 1966).

Death

Slade died on 7 February 2022, at the age of 94.

Judicial decisions

Important judicial decisions of Lord Justice Slade include: * ''

Re Bond Worth Ltd ''Re Bond Worth Ltd'' 980Ch 228 is a UK insolvency law case, concerning retention of title clauses. Facts Bond Worth Ltd was a carpet manufacturing company. It bought man-made fibres from Monsanto Ltd and used them to make carpets. The conditions ...

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Adams v Cape Industries plc ''Adams v Cape Industries plc'' 990Ch 433 is a UK company law case on separate legal personality and limited liability of shareholders. The case also addressed long-standing issues under the English conflict of laws as to when a company would b ...

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Street v Mountford is an English land law case from the House of Lords. It set out principles to determine whether someone who occupied a property had a tenancy (i.e. a lease), or only a licence. This mattered for the purpose of statutory tenant rights to a reason ...

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Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v Aboody ''Bank of Credit and Commerce International S.A. v. Aboody''

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Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corp ''Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corp'' 986Ch 246 is a UK company law case, concerning the enforceability of obligations against a company. The case was one of the last significant cases on '' ultra vires'' under English ...

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Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland and Hamstead Plant Hire Co Ltd ''Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland and Hamstead Plant Hire Co Ltd'' 984EWCA Civ 5is an English contract law case concerning the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. Facts Hamstead Plant Hire hired out a JCB excavator to Phillips Products. It also hir ...

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Aveling Barford Ltd v Perion Ltd ''Aveling Barford Ltd v Perion Ltd'' 989BCLC 626 is a UK company law case concerning reduction of capital. It held that a sale at an undervalue of an asset was a dressed-up distribution. As the company did not have distributable reserves, the ...

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Mikeover Ltd v Brady ''Mikeover Ltd v Brady'' 989is an English land law case, concerning the definition of leases, specifically a standard tenancy as opposed to a licence. Here a licence was confirmed and upheld where two former co-habitees had fallen out and separa ...

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Winkworth v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd ''Winkworth v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd'' 9801 Ch 496 was a judicial decision of English High Court relating to the proper law to determine whether title passes when stolen goods are sold to another person in a foreign country. The case re ...

References

1927 births 2022 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Attorneys-General of the Duchy of Lancaster 20th-century English judges Knights Bachelor Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom {{UK-law-bio-stub