Roderick William Ramage

work and employment history

1996 to present sole practice as solicitor specialising in pension scheme law

1998 to present Mace & Jones, Liverpool - consultant (pensions law)

1996 to present Kent Jones and Done - consultant (pensions law)

1996 – 2002 external examiner Staffordshire University Law School

1986 – 1988 part time consultant to Butterworths Law Publishers on computer based drafting of legal documents

1972 – 1996 Kent Jones and Done, Stoke-on-Trent - assistant and partner

1966 – 1972 Taylor Hindle and Rhodes, Manchester - assistant and salaried partner

1962 – 1966 Foysters, Manchester - solicitor's articled clerk and assistant solicitor

1961 (predecessor of) Touche Ross, Manchester - chartered accountant's articled clerk

experience

current: principally pensions

but also some company, employment

middle: company, banking and finance, securities, employment and pensions

early: conveyancing, wills and trusts and company

languages

French and German - fluent (but not perfect) in both

member of the Arbeitgemeinschaft für Fachanwälte fur Arbeitsrecht (Society of German employment lawyers)

publications

Kelly's Draftsman editor (and author of much of the contents) from 13^th Edition 1973 to 19^th Edition 2006, 2007 supplement to 19^th Edition including new company precedents under the Companies Act 2006

The Companies Act: Table A 1856-1985 author 1^st Edition 1982 and 2^nd Edition 1985

Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents 5^th Edition

contributor to

Volume 11 Companies (1992), Volume 12A Contacts for Services (2002), Volume 14 Employment (1994), Volume 31 Pensions (1999), Volume 36 Sale of Land (1990) and the supplement (various dates)

New Law Journal

author of articles and precedents from 1970 to date

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published articles

lecturing

CLT (document drafting and employment), Progressive Law Training (Trustee Act 2000 and pensions) in-house training for own staff and clients (at KJD and M&J), Moore Stephens on various topics. Université du Panthéon (Paris) in French on Sociétés Unipersonnelles Britanniques (also published in France). German national and Frankfurt law societies and Bochum University in German on English business and employment law. Visiting lecturer in company law at University of Wolverhampton (2004).

personal

Copehale, Coppenhall, Stafford, ST18 9BW, 01785-223030

born 8 October 1939 in Stockport in England, married with adult children and step-children

member of Kind Edward Street Chapel (Unitarian), Macclesfield

education

Monkton Combe School and London School of Economics

qualifications: BSc(Econ.) in 1962 and solicitor in 1966

interests

reading, music and theatre, science and technology, horse riding, old cars (see Daimler project), bicycling, food and wine

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