Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson

The Right Honourable The Lord Browne-Wilkinson PC
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office 1998 – 5 June 2000
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Lord Goff of Chieveley
Succeeded by	Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office 1 October 1991 – 5 June 2000
Preceded by	The Lord Brandon of Oakbrook
Succeeded by	The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Vice-Chancellor
In office 1985 – 1 October 1991
Preceded by	Sir Robert Megarry
Succeeded by	Sir Donald Nicholls
Personal details
Born	Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson 30 March 1930
Nationality	British
Occupation	Judge
Profession	Barrister

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.