The Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, GBS, PC 1938-2023

 Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, GBS, PC, who died 16 November, 2023, aged 85, was a former judge and justice of the Supreme Court.

Robert Walker was born 17 March, 1938. The barrister was appointed  a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division in 1994, and as is customary was then made a Knight Bachelor, before appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1997. 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 of the United Kingdom upon its inauguration on 1 October 2009. He sat as a crossbench peer in the Lords until his retirement from the upper house in 2021.

He served as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal between 2009 and 2023.

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