Obviously Brett Walker (34) didn’t stand a chance against all the creativity and craftmanship surrounding him while growing up, so now he is an artist himself. That opened the way for Walker to convince the High Court that the jury must have held some reasonable doubt about Pell's guilt, and to acquit him.His dad was a carpenter, his mom a dress maker who used half of his bedroom as her sewing room. Despite the County Court and Victorian Court of Appeal ruling against Pell, in the latter court the three judges were split two-to-one on one of the grounds of appeal. The groundwork for that win was laid by Robert Richter, QC, who represented Pell at trial. Says Collins: "In the modern era it's incredibly rare to have that breadth of skill." So how did Walker win the High Court case? That move came as Walker was also representing Labor in its challenge to the constitutional validity of another Nationals MP, David Gillespie (Walker won for Joyce and lost against Gillespie). In 2017, Walker was hired by then deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce to defend Joyce's political career amid dual citizenship claims. Those of us in the field simply had to catch up with our colleagues in the rarified world of public international law." "All that changed when the Security Council began issuing Chapter VII resolutions under the UN Charter compelling Australia and the other members of the United Nations to have and to enforce effective counter-terrorist regimes. In a law lecture three years ago, Walker described how he essentially taught himself international law, remarking that before his appointment his reading in the highly specialised field had been "more for interest than for work". The Gillard government appointed Walker as the country's first Independent National Security Legislation Monitor.
Walker was one of the leading counsels in tobacco companies' ultimately unsuccessful fight against the Gillard government's plain packaging laws, and has represented the Finks Motorcycle Club in its fight against the validity of South Australia's anti-bikie laws.
He represented former prime minister Kevin Rudd in the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program, successfully arguing that long-standing Cabinet secrecy rules be overturned and Rudd be allowed to give his evidence in full, rather than the royal commission being met with a "devastating truncation of the truth". A small handful of Australia's top barristers now command in the order of $30,000 a day, and The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has been told there is no reason to think Walker is any different. Last year it was reported Walker commands fees in the order of $25,000 a day. "I've been opposed to him a couple of times, and the scary thing about him is he conducts himself in a flowing, comprehensive and extremely analytical way from notes that are about the size of a matchbox." Just how good is he? Rush says Walker has an "uncommonly" good capacity to act at the highest levels in complex commercial law, human rights and international law, the High Court, and plenty of other courts in between. "He's demonstrated himself to be in the top three or four barristers in Australia for two decades." "I've known him for in excess of 20 years," says fellow barrister Jack Rush, QC.
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But in his professional circles, he is known for having one of the sharpest legal minds this country has ever seen. He told The Australian Financial Review five years ago that his favourite Australian poets were David Campbell and Robert Adamson and his favourite composers were Mozart, Bach, Bartok and Sibelius: "Mozart and Bach are very easily the two I could never do without." He is a keen gardener.
He is a former chairman of the board of directors of Red Room Poetry, which commissions and nurtures established and emerging Australian poets. Like many barristers, Walker is something of a Renaissance man.
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