Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

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Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, QC, PC, (born 17 March 1938) is Law Lord, formerly a British barrister and judge.

The son of Ronald Robert Antony and Mary Helen Walker, was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics and law in 1959.

Walker worked as a barrister in Lincoln's Inn from 1960 and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1982. From 1994 to 1997, he was a High Court Judge, Chancery Division. He became aLord 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
• Gillett v Holt, [2000] 3 W.L.R. 815 (CA) - as Robert Walker LJ

[edit] References

1. ^ House of Lords (2002-10-08). Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords. minutes of proceedings. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.

• DodOnline. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.