Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley

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Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley (born 17 February 1930), formerly Sir Gordon Slynn, is a senior British lawyer, specialising in European and International Law.

A former Queen's Counsel and former Judge at the European Court of Justice, he is President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands, Chairman of the Executive Council of the International Law Association, and life President of the Lord Slynn of Hadley European Law Foundation.

In 1992 he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and became additionally a life peer as Baron Slynn of Hadley, of Eggington in the County of Bedfordshire.

Lord Slynn of Hadley is a supporter of moot courts. He has written a foreword to the book How to Moot: a Student Guide to Mooting and has sat as a judge in the Central and East European Moot Court.

Lord Slynn of Hadley is an honorary member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia.