Spencer Batiste (born 5 June 1945) is a British retired judge and Member of Parliament. Batiste was educated at Carmel College (1955–1963), the Sorbonne, Paris (1963–1964),

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

(1964–1967) and the College of Law (1967–1968). He was articled at Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyk in the City of London (1968–1970) and became a practicing solicitor in 1970 with Branson Bramley of Sheffield until 1986, and then a non-executive board member of DLA (now DLA Piper) until 1995. He was also the law clerk and a guardian of the Sheffield Assay Office and a member of the British Hallmarking Council and of Sheffield University Council. In the 1979 European Parliamentary elections, Batiste unsuccessfully contested the Sheffield European Parliament constituency. However, in 1983 he became the

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MP for

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in the

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, a seat which he held until his defeat in the Labour landslide in the 1997 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir

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at the Department of Trade & Industry, Lord Trefgarne at the Ministry of Defence, and, latterly, for European Commissioner and former

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Sir Leon Brittan. He was also a member of the Science & Technology and the Information Select Committees and was vice-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Space Committee, In 1997, he was appointed as an immigration adjudicator for the Immigration Appellate Authority, and later as a chairman of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, which became the

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. Later Batiste became a judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber) until his retirement in 2012. He is married with one son and one daughter

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Sources

* ''The Times'' Guide to the House of Commons, 1992

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* 1945 births Living people Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 UK MPs 1992–1997 Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1940s-stub