Yup, and there were certainly no strings pulled at slaughters ... he is exactly the kind of guy I can see sitting at a table and concluding a deal, beinga brilliant negotiator etc and he will be ... just not brilliant at academics. and lets face it, how much of your degree is actually relevant to practice? learning cases and spieling them out etc is not what a client wants to see, they just want the solution not the theory behind it etc which is what you need to get a 2.1/1st... so in a way its totally fair. just makes you think "wow, they must really see something in this guy!"