(interview by Walker Syachalinga, drafting by David Amaro)
Can you tell us about your educational and professional experiences, particularly about reading law at the University of Kent?
In the late 1960s, I was looking to study law, but did not want to study it exclusively, and was not sure whether I wanted to practise law. By [...]

BabyBarista and The Art of War by Tim Kevan
(Bloomsbury 2009. ISBN 9780747594642)
I agree with many that this book may be a true portrayal of life at the Bar, but I would also argue that this is true of many successful professions and success in general. Based on a Times Online blog by the same author, [...]

(interview by Walker Syachalinga, drafting by Shalini Ranjan)
Could you please give us a brief background to your education?
I attended boarding school and was expected to follow in the footsteps of my father and become an underwriter. I was actually atrocious at school and viewed as having no potential whatsoever. When I left school I joined [...]

Is the current system of forcing senior members of the judiciary into retirement at 70 a regressive step for English law?‘
Will you still need me,
will you still feed me,
when I’m sixty-four?’
The Beatles, ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’
The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 states that judges must formally retire at 70. However, as the Justice Secretary, Jack [...]

One matter that has been intensely debated over the past year is that of student finance.
The debate has become even more heated as issues of social mobility have arisen and there have been questions as to how students progress into the country’s top professions. Indeed, whereas the question of university funding used to be the [...]