Brighton Barrister - Duncan Roy

Career history
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Position	Place/work	Date
Barrister at law, self-clerking.	Jew Street Chambers	1st September 2007 onwards
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Barrister at law	Chambers of Jonathan Dingle & Harry Hodgkin (Clerksroom), Equity House, Blackbrook Park Avenue, Taunton, TA1 2PX.	May 2003 to August 2007
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Legal Research	Various projects, including archaic law for a potential BBC programme.	since 1998
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Law reporter & editor	Lawtel freelancer, editing articles and summarising judgments; daily midnight deadlines in: administrative, contract, crime, employment, social security, tort, immigration, personal injury, Scottish law, constitutional law, international law and human rights.	January 1998 to January 2003
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Barrister at law	Barristers' Common Law Chambers, 27 Whitechapel Road, Aldgate East, London, E1 1DU	October 1999 to April 2000
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Pupil Barrister	Six months at Staple Inn Chambers; six months at the Chambers of Rock Tansey QC	October 1998 to March 1999
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Showman: fire eater and stand up	Various venues, almost all on the pavements of England, Wales and Scotland. I performed a 45 minute one man show entitled, "The fire sword of damocles."	1991 to 1995
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Qualifications	Grade	Institution	Date
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Public Access (allowing members of the public to instruct me direct without a solicitor)	n/a	College of Law	19th October 2007

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Mediator	n/a	ADR Chambers	9th January 2004
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Called to the Bar	n/a	The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn	October 1997
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Bar Finals	Competent	The Inns of Court School of Law	1997
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CPE	Pass	University of Sussex	1996
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BSc(Econ) Hons	Upper Second in Politics	University College of Wales at Aberystwyth	1991
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plus the usual run of 3 A-levels, 8 O-levels, and a mooting prize.
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Public service
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Free Representation Unit
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This is a charity which represents poor Londoners before tribunals, for free regardless of the result of the case.
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Representation: 38 cases 1996 - 1999
Management: Secretary of the Management Committee 1997 - 1998, Chairman of the Management Committee 1998 - 1999

Pieces of Fate Ltd

I founded this charity in 2008, which aims to obtain a permanent venue for chess players in Brighton & Hove; organise local competitions and chess education.
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Personal & Political
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Brighton is my home town, where I met and married my wife (in 2001). She is a doctor who was elected to Brighton & Hove City Council in May 2007, for the Green Party, before poor health forced her resignation (she still works as a doctor). I myself was the Treasurer of the Brighton & Hove Green Party for the 9 months leading up to the General Election in 2005.
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I come from a Scottish family. My Mother was a teacher in a Brighton primary school for and my Father taught early-medieval art history and editorial photography at the local art college (which morphed into a polytechnic and then a university). They both live in the highlands when they are not exploring North-East Greenland and other far flung places.
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Hoping to remain as intellectually and physically active as my parents, I holiday by mountaineering, long distance walking and cycling. I relax in Brighton by playing against my friends in the Brighton & Hove Chess Club (of which I am the secretary & webmaster) or by writing poetry and like nothing better than sitting around an open fire with excellent company and philosophical debate.