“Sir Andrew McFarlane was promoted to the Court of Appeal in July 2011, the most recent appointment in a meteoric career that began in the drama department of Durham University. As he explains in conversation with Family Affairs, his preferred activities at University involved drama, student politics and the church. Law seems to have been an after-thought and he is (probably) the only member of the current Court of Appeal able to boast of a third class degree. Beware the temptation, however, to assume that Andrew has a third class mind; his progress from provincial practice in the West Midlands to a glittering leading career at 1KBW, authorship of the leading text book on Child Law, a raft of committee appointments including Chairmanship of the FLBA, the High Court bench at 51 and the Court of Appeal at 57 bear testament to a distinctly first class brain with application to match.”
Family Law Bar Association, 20th February 2012
Source: www.flba.co.uk
