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6 Liverpool L. Rev. 1 (1984)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr6 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 JOHN AND MARY CONKERTON - AN APPRECIATION Barrie Marsh* I am delighted that this issue of the Liverpool Law Review has been dedicated to the memory of the late John and Mary Conkerton, both of whom died in 1979. The issue contains articles on topics which were of particular interest to the Conkertons. I first knew John and Mary in about 1956 when I was a student at what was then Gibson and Weldons in Guildford. That establishment is, of course, now the College of Law. Mary, having read history and law at Girton College, Cambridge, was admitted as a Solicitor in 1955 and then joined the tutorial staff of Gibson and Weldon. She was Assistant Editor of Law Notes. It was at Gibsons that Mary met John Conkerton, who had read Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, and who himself was a lecturer in Guildford. John served his articles in Local Government and was admitted in 1954. John and Mary came to Liverpool in 1963 to lecture at the Liverpool College of Commerce (later Liverpool Polytechnic). They were responsible for building up the courses for the Law Society's Final Examinations. These courses were tremendously successful. Twelve students attended in 1963 and by 1970 over 300 students were attending the Finals Course. The pass rate at one stage was the highest in the country - even, I think, higher than that of the College of Law itself. In 1974, when it seemed likely that the Polytechnic was about to discontinue the Solicitors' Finals Course (the College of Law having opened in Chester) John and Mary moved on to the Faculty of Law at the University of Liverpool. * Solicitor, Chairman - Conkerton Memorial Fund.

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