Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon

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Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (15 August 1906 – 10 September 1989) was a Scottish judge.

Called to the Bar in 1932, Kilbrandon was made Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1957. In 1965, he became further chairman of the Scottish Law Commission. From 1970 to 1973 he chaired the Royal Commission on the Constitution. On 4 October 1971, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer with the title Baron Kilbrandon, of Kilbrandon in the County of Argyllshire. In the same year he was invested to the Privy Council.

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• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.