Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, Personal Computer, is an English barrister and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Background
Born on 17 March 1938, the son of Ronald Robert Antony Walker by his wife Mary Helen, Walker was educated at Downside School before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge from where he graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics and Law.
Career
He also serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. He was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1960 and became a Queen"s Counsel in 1982. In 2010 he was the Treasurer of Lincoln"s Inn.
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe has served on the Honorary Editorial Board of the Warwick Student Law Review since its inception in 2010.
He succeeded Lord Slynn of Hadley GBE as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2002 and was created a Life Peer as Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, of Gestingthorpe in the County of Essex. He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body"s inauguration on 1 October 2009.
Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) Fam 147
Gillett v Holt 3 WLR 815
Moore Stephens v Stone Rolls Limited UKHL 39
HJ and HT v Home Secretary UKSC 31
Futter & Anor v HMRC. Pitt & Anor v HMRC UKSC 26
Moulin Global Eyecare Trading Limited v Commissioner of Inland Revenue HKEC 419.