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The Lord Browne-Wilkinson
Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1998 – 5 June 2000
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byLord Goff of Chieveley
Succeeded byLord Bingham of Cornhill
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1 October 1991 – 5 June 2000
Preceded byThe Lord Brandon of Oakbrook
Succeeded byThe Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Vice-Chancellor
In office
1985 – 1 October 1991
Preceded bySir Robert Megarry
Succeeded bySir Donald Nicholls
Personal details
Born
Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson

(1930-03-30) 30 March 1930 (age 94)
NationalityBritish
OccupationJudge
ProfessionBarrister

Sir Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, PC, Kt. (born 30 March 1930)[1] is a former Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the United Kingdom and former Head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court.[2]

He was educated at Lancing and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, of Camden in the London Borough of Camden, on 1 October 1991. He retired from the House of Lords on 1 March 2016.[3]

Lord Browne-Wilkinson delivered the Privy Council rulings for Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre (a Vietnamese refugee centre in Hong Kong and under British administration when the incident occurred) in 1997. The rulings have since been used in immigration cases globally.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2014. Lord Browne–Wilkinson, a former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 82
  2. ^ "Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson". The Peerage. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Retired members of the House of Lords". parliament.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  4. ^ Al Masri v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCA 1009 (15 August 2002); accessed 22 March 2016.
Legal offices
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor
1985 - 1991
Succeeded by
Preceded by Senior Law Lord
1998—2000
Succeeded by