Slaughters’ Charles Randell on naval dreams, moral dilemmas and keeping sight of the big picture

Why did you become a lawyer? To support myself. I had been awarded a place at university to read English, but my father died before I started the course and I switched to law because I didn’t feel I could ask my mother to fund me through a non-vocational degree. In fact, at one stage I had been toying with the idea of joining the Navy so that they would pay my way through university!