Master Goode (Professor Sir Royston Goode CBE KC FBA) sadly died on 24 June 2026, aged 93.

Master Goode was admitted as a solicitor in 1955 and was called to the Bar by the Inn in 1988. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. He spent 17 years in private practice as a solicitor before turning to academia. His academic career included roles at Queen Mary University of London, as Professor of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, and founder of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. From 1990 to 1998, he served as the Norton Rose Professor of English Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, later becoming an Emeritus Fellow.

His public service appointments included, among others, chairing the Pension Law Review Committee and serving as a member of both the Crowther Committee on Consumer Credit and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. He also held key leadership roles as Chairman of the Executive Committee of JUSTICE and as a member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT. He was awarded the OBE in 1972, followed by the CBE in 1994, before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000.

Master Goode was elected a Bencher of the Inn in 1992.

The Inn’s flag was flown at half-mast in his memory on Wednesday 1 July. Details of any memorial service will be circulated in due course as appropriate.