Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
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Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, QC, PC, (born 17 March 1938) is a British barrister and judge.
The son of Ronald Robert Antony and Mary Helen Walker, was educated on the Downside School and the Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in classics and law in 1959.
Walker worked as barrister in Lincoln's Inn from 1960 and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1982. From 1994 to 1997, he was High Court Judge, Chancery Division. He became Lord Justice of Appeal in 1997 and held this post until 2002. On 1 October 2002, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and received additionally a life peerage with the title Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, of Gestingthorpe in the County of Essex.[1]
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe has been married to Suzanne Diana Leggi since 1962; they have three daughters and one son.
[edit] Famous judgments
- Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [1995] 2 AC 145 - as Robert Walker LJ
[edit] References
- ^ House of Lords (2002-10-08). Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords. minutes of proceedings. Retrieved on November 9, 2006.
- DodOnline. Retrieved on November 9, 2006.
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