Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
- 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 a 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. [cite web | url= http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/minutes/021008/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 2002-10-08| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-11-09]
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe has been married to Suzanne Diana Leggi since 1962; they have three daughters and one son.
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
References
*cite web | url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26787| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2006-11-09
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