Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon

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See also:- The Kilbrandon Report for the Royal Commission on the UK Constitution

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

Elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1932, Kilbrandon was appointed 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 (commonly referred to as the Kilbrandon Commission). 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 Seil in the County of Argyll. In the same year he was invested to the Privy Council.

Probably by far his most important contribution was the Kilbrandon Report 1964 Cmnd.2306, nearly all of whose recommendations were enacted in the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968. This transformed the face of juvenile justice in Scotland. Children, those under 16 years, were and are treated for their needs rather than their deeds, unlike anywhere else in the UK.