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Johan van Zyl Steyn (or Johan Steyn as he preferred to be called), Baron Steyn of Swafield in the County of Norfolk, Privy Councillor and retired senior Law Lord, died of a cerebral haemorrhage at his home in Fulham on 28 November 2017 at the age of 85.
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South Africa to the United Kingdom, he took silk again and rose swiftly through the High Court (singled out immediately for its Commercial Court) to the Court of Appeal and then the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.
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Steyn was born at Stellenbosch on 15 August 1932
