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Sir Charles Anthony Haddon-Cave (born 20 March 1956), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, is a British judge serving in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales.
Haddon-Cave was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1978, and elected a bencher in 2003. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1980. Haddon-Cave took silk 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.
Sir Charles is the son of Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981, and elder brother to Francis, who was called to the Hong Kong bar in 1999.
Haddon-Cave led a review into the 2006 RAF Nimrod crash.