Rhys
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Location | Durham City, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I have a somewhat varied background, career-wise: after graduation from Oxford University (Worcester College [the most beautiful in Oxford]) and Lisbon University (Faculdade de Letras) in Brazilian and Portuguese Studies I read for the Bar (Gray's Inn) and by modes of indirection became a Deputy Chief Clerk in the Inner London Magistrates' Courts' Service until promotion (1989) to the senior posting of Clerk to the Justices in Derwentside (County Durham). After a Sabbatical break in the mid 1990s I became Senior Magistrate / Registrar of Montserrat and subsequently Senior Legal Advisor to the Registrar of ICTR - the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (until 2005). Since then have been a student (unofficially but with the agreement of some superb Professors) of International Law at Oxford. |
| Interests | The arts, travel, politics, literature, theatre |
| Favorite Movies | Au Revoir Les Enfants, Stand by Me, Thelma and Louise, Some Like It Hot, Ma Nuit chez Maude, The Killing of Sister George. |
| Favorite Music | Bach (esp. St John Passion), Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, Michelle Shocked, Marc Almond, Paolo Nutini, Gurrumul, John Tavener. |
| Favorite Books | Jose' Saramago (esp. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis), Iris Murdoch (esp. the Sea the Sea), early Patricia Cornwell ( the later ones are a bit formulaic), Dante Alighieri. |