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Anthony Cleary

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Now a Circuit Judge, (formerly a District Judge, and historically a Solicitor by profession) I sit in Coventry County Court, and live in Warwickshire with my long suffering wife of 40 years, our son, and 5 cats.

Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and then Sheffield University, I initially flirted with the advertising industry, before I sensed that there was more to the world than Fairy Liquid and Kerrygold Butter. I might still be wrong.

I have written a good number of legal articles, and I am the General Editor of a major Family Law reference book, (The Family Court Practice) but Nobody Comes is my first venture into writing outside the Law.

I sing - both as a Cathedral Choral Clerk and with a small Early Music group, Hymnos. And I shoot, ...more

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Nobody Comes

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How it began

I blame the television. My wife and I had come to terms with our inability to have children. Gynaecologists had come and gone, pursed their lips and presented their fee notes, and we had finally accepted the inevitable. We had considered adoption, but this was the 1980's, and the advice was that we were too old to be looked on with any favour by our Social Services. So, after 16 years of happy mar Read more of this blog post »

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