My legal life – Page 27
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ProfileMy legal life: Mark Hynes
Law appealed to me as a kid growing up in the 1970s with shows like Petrocelli. I graduated from Leicester University, then attended law school in Chester and undertook my articles at Wells and Hind in Nottingham. I remember my first day of articles when I was given a Dictaphone, ...
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My legal life: Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
I never wanted to be a commercial or business lawyer, much of whose job it is to make rich people richer. My father was a doctor who worked mostly within mining communities. I felt impelled to follow in his footsteps and give service to people who needed it, but could ...
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My legal life: Mark Beer
Every summer from the age of 14 I carried the bags of Edge Ellison’s senior partner Digby (now Lord) Jones and loved everything about the idea of being a lawyer. Oxford University’s jurisprudence degree provided a wonderful introduction to the philosophy of law and the importance of questioning everything against ...
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My legal life: Ted Greeno
Although school aptitude tests pointed towards a legal career I found the study of law generally rather dry, but enjoyed business-related subjects such as contract and commercial law. At that stage, my intention was to go into business and I started a small publishing business while still a student.
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My legal life: John Spencer
I set out to specialise in economics with an ambition to teach. I studied for a BA in social sciences covering economics, law, social policy, sociology, and maths and statistics. In year two I focused on economics and law, but law came more naturally.
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My legal life: Christopher Arnull
Learning Latin and enjoying an argument provided me with good grounding for a legal career. I liked the idea of legal work once I realised law permeates every facet of life.
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My legal life: Gerald Shamash
My girlfriend, now wife, was involved in the early stages of the development of the community law centre movement. She made me realise that the law was a wonderful weapon for helping the least advantaged sections of society achieve their rights.
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ProfileMy legal life: Suzanne Gill
My degree is in economics, but I lack what an economist would understand as a ‘competitive advantage’ in maths to the extent needed to be a professional economist. Law combines understanding how things work and playing with words – playing with language has always been fun. I like to know ...
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My legal life: Gordon Turner
I sat my law degree in Newcastle, though I didn’t fancy being a lawyer at first. Then my sandwich business, ‘The Great North Bun’, flopped so I came to London and found myself in Shelter’s legal department. Once I saw the law being used in real situations I started to ...
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My legal life: Ed Gretton
At school, I loved the debating society, and law seemed the natural progression. I considered the criminal bar for a while, but I really wanted to work in trade and industry. I grabbed every bit of work experience I could – it ranged from Easter vacation schemes with Slaughter and ...
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My legal life: Anthony Barnfather
I left school early to work ‘to provide food for the table’. I was a forester – lived a number of years in a caravan before working as a retail manager, gaining a diploma in management studies and heading a £15m turnover operation. Then I became a police officer and ...