Sir Paul James Walker (born 1954), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Walker, was a High Court judge. He was educated at

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and

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. He was called to the bar at

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in 1979 and became a bencher there in 2005. He was made a QC in 1999, and judge of the

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(Queen's Bench Division) since 2004. In 2019, he retired from the bench and returned to practice.

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