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Contact:  You can contact John on the following email address john@johnmckendrick.com

John was born in Alexandria, on the shores of Loch Lomond almost thirty years ago. He grew up in the countryside in Stirlingshire, where his family still live, went to school in Glasgow and studied at the LSE and Oxford before qualifying as a barrister. He has devoted the early part of his professional life to working as a lawyer representing families, parents, schools and local authorities in the fields of education and community care provision, tackling a variety of problems from special educational needs to bullying and from discipline to truancy. He has also worked abroad as a lawyer in Central America and has lived in Panama City. He is also an occasional writer and has published short pieces. Currently he is researching a book about the Scottish colonial failure in Darien, on Panama’s northern coast. In his spare time he likes travelling, skiing, walking and a good chat over a pint.