Bret William Walker SC (born 1954) is one of Australia's leading barristers, stationed at Fifth Floor St James' Hall Chambers.[1]
Walker was educated at The King's School in Sydney. He graduated with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney.[2]
Walker was admitted to the NSW bar in 1979. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1993. He was president of the NSW Bar Association from November 2001[3] to November 2003,[4] and had been Vice-President from 1996 to 2001.[2] He was President of the Law Council of Australia from 1997 to 1998.[5]
Walker has been Editor of the NSW Law Reports since 2006.[2] He is a patron of the State Library of NSW as a Foundation Senior Fellow[6] and has been a Member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel since 2003. He was Governor of the Law Foundation of NSW from 1996 to 2007, and Special Commissioner of Inquiry for the NSW Government into Sydney Ferries in 2007.[2] Walker has been a director on the board of the Sydney Writers' Festival since 2000.[2][7] He was a Foundation Member and has been Director of the Australian Academy of Law since 2007.[2][8]