John Boyd, Esq, QC

Career: called to the Bar Gray's Inn 1963 (bencher 1988); sec asst ICI 1957-62, legal asst Pfizer 1962-66, legal offr Henry Wiggin and Co 1966-68; joined Inco Europe Ltd 1968, sec and chief legal offr Inco Europe Ltd 1972-86 (dir 1984-86); in private practice at Bar 1986; Digital Equipment Co: dir of legal servs 1986-93, dir of public affrs and communications 1993-95; dir Digital Equipment Scotland Ltd 1987-95, chm AXXIA Systems Ltd 1995-2008; immigration adjudicator 1995-2005, immigration judge 2005-08; commercial arbitrator 2000-; chm Competition Panel CBI 1988-93, dir Impala Platinum 1972-78, gen cmmr of Income Tax 1978-81, memb Senate of Inns of Court and Bar 1978-81, chm Bar Assoc for Commerce Finance and Industry 1980-81, sec-gen Assoc des Juristes d'Enterprise Européens 1983-84, legal advsr Review Bd for Govt Contracts 1984-91, memb Monopolies and Mergers Cmmn Electricity Panel 1991-98, dir Centre for Euro Dispute Resolution 1991-94; vice-pres Cncl of Immigration Judges 1998-99; memb: Cncl Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary & Westfield Coll London 1989-93, Exec Ctee Royal Acad of Dance 1991-99; chm Contemporary Dance Tst and The Place theatre London 1995-98, dir Oxford Orchestra da Camera 1996-2001; treas Upton Bishop PCC 2004-; accredited mediator 2006; FCIArb