User:Milolekic

Milo Lekic was born on 24 of September 1943 in a war destroyed Belgrade, the capitol of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Until 1956 the childhood was spent in the centre of Belgrade near the square Slavija where he attended one of the best primary schools in the post war Yugoslavia. The school was named after the first Serbian Patriarch and saint Sveti Sava. Then he moved to what was then the outskirts of the city called Vozdovac but his school and University links remained in the centre of the city by attending the XIV Belgrade Grammar School, again one of the best schools in the city. He graduated at the Faculty of Law in l962.

He was only eleven when he became the Junior Red Cross activist and a leader that eventually saw him represent Yugoslavia with three other delegates in 1962 at the VISTA visit of Junior Red Cross at the Red Cross Centenary celebrations in the USA. During the visit the group attended a meeting with President Kennedy at the White House.

In 1964 he left for England in order to study there. He worked for four years until such time that he could enter Univesity which he did in 1971. In 1973 he held the elected office of President of the Bracton Law Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Exeter. He graduated with an Honours degree in 1974 and was called to the English Bar in November 1975. After completing his pupillage he returned to Yugoslavia in 1977 where he qualified at the local bar. however he was offered a job at the American Embassy in Belgrade in 1978 where he worked as General Manager of AEERA for the following twelve years, helping it make one of the best organisations. From 1990 to 1996 he practiced law and taught English at the local Education Centre in Southern Serbia, but due to certain known events decided to leave the country.

In 1996 he returned to England and joined his University colleague in running a busy solicitors office in London with predominantly Legal Aid clients. The firm became one of the leading firms in its field of work. He retired in 1997 and now lives in London, Serbia and Morocco.