Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson (30 March 1930 – 25 July 2018) was a British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1991 to 2000, and

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from 1998 to 2000.

Life and career

Browne-Wilkinson was the sixth child and only son of the Rev Canon Arthur Browne-Wilkinson, MC, and of Mary Abraham, daughter of Charles Abraham, Bishop of Derby. He was educated at Lancing and at

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, where he took a First in Jurisprudence in 1952. He was

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in 1953 and took silk in 1972. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey and of

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from 1976 to 1977. In 1977, Browne-Wilkinson was appointed a Justice of the

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and assigned to the

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, receiving the customary knighthood. He was promoted as a

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in 1983, and was of sworn of the Privy Council. From 1985 to 1991 he was

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, the ''de facto'' head of the Chancery Division. He was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a

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as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, ''of Camden in the

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'' on 1 October 1991, and was

from 1998 until his retirement as Law Lord in 2000. His tenure as Senior Law Lord was marred by the controversy surrounding the Pinochet extradition case. He retired from the House of Lords under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 1 March 2016.

Family

Browne-Wilkinson married Ursula de Lacy Bacon in 1955; they had three sons and two daughters. After her death in 1987, he married Hilary Warburton in 1990.

Selected judgments

*'' Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority'' 992QB 333 *'' Airedale NHS Trust v Bland'' 993AC 789 *''Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre'' 997AC 97 * ''Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council'' 996AC 669 *'' R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex p Pinochet Ugarte (No 2)''

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1 AC 119 *'' R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex p Pinochet Ugarte (No 3)''

1 AC 147 *''Multiservice Bookbinding Ltd v Marden'' 979Ch 84 * '' Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns'' 996AC 421

References

1930 births 2018 deaths People educated at Lancing College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 20th-century English judges Senior lords of appeal in ordinary Law lords Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor Chancery Division judges Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Members of Lincoln's Inn English King's Counsel Lord justices of appeal {{Life-peer-stub Peers retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014