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Paul Clark (judge)
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He was educated at Bristol Grammar School
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, New College, Oxford
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, where he was an open scholar, and Middle Temple
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, where he was Harmsworth Scholar. Called to the Bar in 1966, he practised principally on the Midland and Oxford Circuit, where he became a circuit judge in 1985, having been a recorder from 1981-85.
He was President of the Council of Circuit Judges. He was elected the youngest Bencher of the Middle Temple
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in 1982 and was Master Reader in 2005 . He was also Chairman of the Middle Temple Scholarship Committee, a role which he used to help numerous people gain a foothold in the profession. In Oxford he was chairman of the university’s disciplinary committee and chairman of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum
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His last years were clouded by ill-health. In 1999 he suffered a near fatal cycling accident which necessitated premature retirement from the Bench.
He was twice married. His first marriage was dissolved. He is survived by his widow Jacqueline Davies
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, by two sons and a daughter by his first marriage and by a stepdaughter.
A memorial service was held at New College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
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