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Sir John Anthony Wall CBE (4 June 1930 – 1 December 2008) was a British lawyer and the first visually impaired judge at the High Court of Justice of the 20th century.Wall was born in East Finchley. He suffered from glaucoma from an early age which caused him to go completely blind by the age of eight. After his blindness took hold he moved from a mainstream school to Chorleywood School for the Blind. He moved to Worcester College for the Blind (now New College Worcester) in 1940.