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Staughton, Sir Christopher Stephen Thomas Jonathan Thayer (1993-2014), barrister and judge
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Dates of existence
24 May 1933 - 15 October 2014
History
Born in 1933 the son of an Australian father and a Canadian mother, who separated when he was a child, as a result of which he was made a ward of court.
He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in law in 1956. He specialised in commercial law.
He served as a Recorder in the Crown Court before being appointed to the High Court of Justice in 1981.
1987 - 1997 served in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
2005 - 2006, he served as President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar.