My legal life – Page 27
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ProfileMy legal life: Jasvinder Nakhwal
The idea of becoming a lawyer was first planted in my head by my parents who, typically for many of their generation, stressed the importance of education and entering a profession. I read law at Oxford and the degree was in jurisprudence. It was not a vocational course. It was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Jane Keir
I didn’t have a strong urge to follow any of the subjects I did at A-level – French, history and politics. I knew I didn’t want to be a teacher or a linguist. My careers adviser said law had a broad basis. I was articled with Henmans in Oxford. They ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Mark Stephens CBE
I was tricked into a legal career through a conspiracy between my father (an artist) and our lodger (in the music business) who thought I should have ‘a proper job’. I wasn’t so terribly disappointed to have been hoodwinked into the law. I feel its my natural métier. I was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Sherina Petit
My grandfather was a solicitor, and my dad still is a solicitor, in Mumbai. During the school summer holidays, a great day out was to sit with my dad in the office. I have always wanted to be a lawyer and I started work as a trainee with dad, who ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Richard Charlton
I chaired a tenants association in Stepney, east London, and at the time the government was trying to take our homes away from us by force under the Housing Act 1988. By intensive lobbying and campaigning we defeated them in the House of Lords and the law changed. That was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Shami Chakrabarti
When I was about 12 I had a conversation with my father – a debate about whether the Yorkshire Ripper ought to be hanged or not. That was the trigger for my interest in civil liberties and human rights. A legal education is a wonderful preparation for a career in ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Monique Fauchon
Law runs in the blood – my parents were lawyers, as was my grandfather. My legal training was simply being immersed in court work and learning on the job. There’s no better preparation. I love the law’s ability to solve an apparently intractable problem for a client. One time we ...
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NewsMy legal life: Sarah Webb
My uncle, a Swansea solicitor, gave me my first job in the law as his secretary. I did law as a non-graduate with long articles, starting off doing criminal work in Shepherds Bush.
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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 ...