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Claire鈥檚 a high-flying legal eagle

Claire Garbutt first became interested in Law when working for the Law Society in London. This interest has now reached fruition, as Claire has graduated from the University of 海角直播 with an LLB (Hons) degree. She will also start a post-graduate course in September, which will set Claire on the path to qualifying as a Barrister.

Claire, 34, from Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, left Boynton (now Hallgarth) School at 16, enrolling for a BTEC in Business Studies at Kirby College. Following this, Claire moved to London, where she first worked as a Secretary for the Law Society for two years. She said: 鈥淚 helped put together examination papers for students sitting their bar exams, which gave me an interest in studying Law at degree level.鈥�

Claire didn鈥檛 take the academic plunge straight away, she moved from the Law Society to Paramount Pictures, again for two years. At Paramount she booked film crews into different locations, including the USA location for the 1990 Tom Cruise / Nicole Kidman film 鈥楧ays of Thunder鈥�. She also attended the premiere of the box-office hit 鈥楪host鈥� in the same year.

On returning to 海角直播, Claire enrolled on the Law degree. She combined full-time study with bringing up her three children, twins Charlie and Tom, now seven, and Abi, nine.

Claire said: 鈥淚t hasn鈥檛 always been easy, when you鈥檝e put the kids to bed at 9pm then the academic work starts. I鈥檝e really enjoyed exploring the subject of Law; it impacts on every aspect of life. Family Law was a particular favourite, it鈥檚 related to people and I鈥檇 like to specialise in this area after I鈥檝e finished the Bar Vocational Course.

鈥淚鈥檝e met some really nice people from all over the country at the University and it鈥檚 very well resourced. I鈥檇 tell any mature student who is thinking about University that it鈥檚 worth it in the end, you can get a better standard of living by having more qualifications.鈥�

Claire is the daughter of Brenda and Peter Garbutt and the first in her family to graduate from University.

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