John Smyth (barrister)
Early life
John Jackson Smyth was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 27 June 1941. He attended Strathcona School.
Early life
He and his family subsequently moved to the Isle of Wight in England, and he was educated at St Lawrence College in Kent. In 1960, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to study natural sciences, but switched to law in his second year. He received his BA (later MA)) in 1963 and his LLB in 1964.
Legal career
Smyth was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1965 and took silk as a Queen's Counsel in 1979. He was a recorder) (with the powers of a circuit judge) able to sit in the Crown Court, the County Court) or the Family Court)) from 1978 to 1984. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he lived in Winchester while practising law in London.
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