Generally:
Born British into a military RAF+WAAF Gibraltarian family, with an ex-Household Cavalry Life Guard/Met Police step-father - all drifting/ diversifying, post-demob, into hotel & catering aka the hospitality trade.
Equity Barrister/Chancery Practitioner called to the Bar with an EN/Brit. Comm. Bar Exam Hons. 'Learnèd in the Law Degree' & out of retirement to help with terminology.
Logical reasoning tests - with a focus on lateral thinking - passed to progress to law finals. Did once earnestly read for the Scottish Bar (Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh).
Seasoned UK, US, Austrian, Spanish & *Italian* conveyancer & probate practitioner, including advising on Scots Letters of Confirmation. Former Commissioner for Oaths.
Qualifications in Solicitors(') Book-Keeping & Accounts + post-Call Forensic Accounting for Barristers.
Education:
O-Level Ancient Greek / A-Level LAT+FRE (Oral Prize) +GER+ENG at Epsom College, Surrey. Exchange student at Lycée Alexandre Dumas de Saint Cloud, Acad. de Versailles, Paris.
Berlitz School German diploma from Munich-Schwabing & Spanish from Berlitz when on Av. d’Alemanya aka Via Alemania, Palma de Majorca.
Int'l, AUT, DEU & SPA law taken at Vienna Uni. + Senior Status (postgrad.) LLB London Uni. External (now Int'l Program)
Training & vocational:
Gap-year & student-job export clerking in London at Harrods of Knightsbridge, John Lewis on Oxford St. & pre-Wales: Morganite Carbon Factory on Battersea Wharf.
Göteborgs Bank (Götebank) exchange clerk in Sweden at T-Centralen in Stockholm.
IP law trainee in Hamburg, freelance translating for the Max Planck Int'l Law Inst. on Mittelweg.
2 years(') Articles split between the City HQ of Clifford-Turner & Co. Solicitors & its Madrid bufete de abogados (de empresa) as a Paris sateliite office on calle Goya + Facultad de Derecho de la UCM researcher.
Time spent in Inner Temple insolvency & Devereux reinsurance law chambers. E&W CCJ (civil debt) briefs. High Ct. bills of sale/chattel mortgage reg. AT Bezirks- & DE Amtsgericht cases.
'European Intelligence' FT spin-off, Euro-business & corporate mag. editor, proverbially 'disgusted' of Tunbridge Wells & at Green + Agri-Europe in Brussels (Belgium, North of France)
Linguistic range & unemployability:
Languages include a smattering of 'disco-dancing', night-school, Linguaphone & Teach Yourself Polish, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian & (family 'Bukov/wina') Romanian.
Arm(s) twisted inhouse - at a Central London Notarial-cum-T&I Office - into NL, Afrik. & 'Belgian Flemish', ICE/FAR, Latin of Welsh Uni. Degree Certs., CAT, ITA & POR.
Unavailable for T&I or allied work, incl. surveys or tel. canvassing, save for 'Counsel's Opinions' on pig's ears - suspected *professionally negligent* translations or court (mis-)interpreting.
