{{Short description|British judge (1927–2022)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Sir Christopher Slade | honorific_suffix = | image = Sir Christopher John Slade Achievement.png | image_size = | caption = Lord Justice Slade's coat of arms <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/baz_manning/22295907481/in/pool-londonheraldry/ |title=Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Wd35 Slade, C |date=13 July 2009 |publisher=Baz Manning |accessdate=28 May 2020}}</ref> | office = Lord Justice of Appeal | term_start = 1982 | term_end = 1991 | predecessor = | successor = | monarch = Elizabeth II | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1927|06|02}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2022|02|07|1927|06|02}} | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = Christopher John Slade | spouse = Jane Buckley | alma_mater = New College, Oxford | occupation = Judge | profession = Barrister | signature = | website = | footnotes = | office1 = Justice of the High Court | term_start1 = 1975 | term_end1 = 1982 }}
'''Sir Christopher John Slade''' (2 June 1927 – 7 February 2022) was a British judge who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal of England and Wales from 1982 to 1991.<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-6-2.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110603060144/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-6-2.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 3 June 2011 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=31 May 2014|date=2 June 2011|quote=Sir Christopher Slade, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, is 84 }}</ref>
== Biography == The eldest son of George Penkivil Slade {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=90%|KC}} (a kinsman of Sir Benjamin Slade, although not in remainder to the baronetcy) and Mary Carnegie,<ref name=Peerage>{{cite web|title=Sir Christopher John Slade |url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p61430.htm#i614297 |publisher=The Peerage |accessdate=31 May 2014}}</ref> he had two younger brothers, Julian (the composer) and Adrian (President of the Liberal Party),<ref name=JS_bio>{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.julianslade.com/html/biography.html|publisher=Julian Slade - official website|accessdate=31 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802001745/http://www.julianslade.com/html/biography.html|archive-date=2 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as a sister, Pauline (who married David Hamilton-Russell, a grandson of the 8th Viscount Boyne).
Slade was educated at Eton before going up to New College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Eldon Scholarship.<ref name=OU>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/admissions/scholarships/further-funding-studying-career-bar/eldon-scholarship-award-holders-1919|title=Eldon Scholarship Award Holders since 1919|date=16 September 2015|publisher=Oxford University|accessdate=3 October 2017}}</ref> Taking silk in 1965, he served as Master of the Ironmongers' Company (for 1973/74),<ref>[https://www.ironmongers.org/about-us www.ironmongers.org]</ref> before being sworn of the Privy Council in 1982.
Married in 1958 to Jane Buckley, daughter of the Rt Hon. Sir Denys Buckley {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=90%|MBE}}, Sir Christopher and Lady Slade had four children, Lucinda ''now'' Tite (born 1959), Victoria ''now'' Henderson-Cleland (born 1962), Richard (born 1963) and Amelia ''now'' Jackson (born 1966).<ref>[https://www.burkespeerage.com/ www.burkespeerage.com]</ref>
Sir Christopher Slade died on 7 February 2022, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Christopher John Slade death notice |url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/255336/slade |access-date=10 February 2022 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=10 February 2022 |archive-date=10 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210053454/https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/255336/slade |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Judicial decisions== Important judicial decisions of Lord Justice Slade include: * ''Re Bond Worth Ltd'' * ''Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v Borden Inc'' * ''Adams v Cape Industries plc'' * ''Street v Mountford'' * ''Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v Aboody'' * ''Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corp'' * ''Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland and Hamstead Plant Hire Co Ltd'' * ''Aveling Barford Ltd v Perion Ltd'' * ''Mikeover Ltd v Brady'' * ''Powell v McFarlane'' * ''Winkworth v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd''
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