Nick 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	The Lord Goff of Chieveley
Succeeded by	The 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	Robert Megarry
Succeeded by	Donald Nicholls
Personal details
Born	Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson (1930-03-30)30 March 1930
Died	25 July 2018(2018-07-25) (aged 88)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Judge
Profession	Barrister

Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, PC^[1] (30 March 1930 – 25 July 2018^[2]) was a British judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the United Kingdom, Head of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Judgments

Decisions of Browne-Wilkinson include:

• Johnstone v Bloomsbury HA [1992] QB 333, [1991] 2 WLR 1362, [1991] 2 All ER 293 - English Contract law case, concerning implied terms and unfair terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

• Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] UKHL 12 English Trust law

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