Kenneth Parker

Sir Kenneth Blades Parker (born 20 November 1945), formerly styled The Hon. Mr Justice Kenneth Parker, is a former judge of the High Court of England and Wales.[1]

For other people named Kenneth Parker, see Kenneth Parker (disambiguation).
The Hon. Mr Justice Kenneth Parker
High Court Judge
In office
2009–2015
Personal details
Born20 November 1945
Alma materExeter College, Oxford

He was educated at Kettering Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford.[2]

He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1975. He was a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) from 2009 to 2015.

In the early 1970s, Sir Kenneth Parker taught Law at Oxford. After gaining his BCL, He conducted Jurisprudence lectures with his friend and colleague, Ronald Dworkin. Dworkin was one of the most eminent Legal Philosophers of the last one hundred years, author of 'Taking Rights Seriously' and 'Law's Empire', amongst other famous works.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Sir Kenneth Parker was a star corporate barrister at Monckton Chambers, which he eventually became Head of, in 2003, and remained head until 2009 when he was appointed a High Court Judge. One of his notable cases as an advocate was representing the colourful figure, CEO of Nabisco, F Ross Jonson during its Leveraged Buyout. This story was told in the best-selling book 'Barbarians at the Gate'.

As a High Court Judge, Sir Kenneth Parker adjudicated on many well-known cases; For example, The Bernie Ecclestone tax evasion trial and the Dale Farm Travellers eviction case.

References
  1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ‘PARKER, Hon. Sir Kenneth (Blades)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014


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