Where/when you studied: Queens' College, Cambridge
Professional expertise before joining the firm: London and Brussels; Manchester as criminal advocate and then Senior Partner in general practice
When you joined the firm: Jan 2003
Department responsibilities: Family and Mental Health
Areas of special legal expertise: as above
Committees or organisations:
- Mental Health Review Tribunal Panel
- Childrens Panel
Where educated: Salford GS and Queens’ Cambridge
First job: Curtain salesman
Hobbies: hiking, etching, collecting dead spiders
Favourite food: lokshen kugel(traditional Sabbath fare)
Favourite film: Cinema Paradiso
Favourite group/artist: Abba, because I failed to give any points to them when I was British judge in the 1974 Eurovision contest!
Ultimate holiday destination: Tuvalu in the Central Pacific where I was doing some journalism a couple of years ago
Favourite sport/team:
Favourite book: The King’s Peace
Likes:
Dislikes: Curry
Personal ambition: To abolish forms like this one