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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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ProfileElisabeth Jones
As chief legal adviser to the Welsh assembly, Elisabeth Jones is politically neutral.
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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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ProfileRupert Scrase
Rupert Scrase, the chair-elect of the Sole Practitioners Group, says why he has confidence in the sector.
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ProfilePaul Bowden
Times of rapid, far-reaching change invite talk of ‘burning platforms’, ‘perfect storms’ and ‘shifting tectonic plates’.
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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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ProfileDavid Haigh
Those who know little about football and care even less, may yet be familiar with the parable of Peter’s goldfish.
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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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ProfileInterview: Boma Ozobia
Commonwealth Lawyers Association president Boma Ozobia is nothing if not ambitious. Her sights are set on changing the global legal landscape.
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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 ...
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ProfileInterview: John Marshall
Times are tough in Newcastle. The council is implementing a ‘scorched earth’ policy to public spending cuts that has generated nationwide headlines.
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ProfileInterview: Nigel Savage
The education and training lawyers receive is one of the most emotive subject matters facing the profession.
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Interview: Lord McNally
At a press conference following David Cameron’s only major government reshuffle, justice minister Lord McNally reflected that he might owe his position as sole surviving minister in the Ministry of Justice more to his status as a Liberal Democrat than other factors.