Barclay Littlewood
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Barclay James Littlewood<ref name="GRO">GRO Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1837 – 1983</ref> (born 1978 in Huddersfield<ref name="GRO" />) is a British barrister and entrepreneur who founded Ukessays.com, a commercial writing service which sells essays and other academic work. The work is sold over the Internet to students in the UK, the US and Western Europe. Despite criticism about the fact that students represent the work as their own, the company maintains copyright in all their work and they claim that the essays they sell are to be used as a study guide.<ref name="Timesonline">Template:Cite news</ref>
Career
After training as a barrister at Gray's Inn, Littlewood set up his company in 2003,<ref name="Meet Us">Template:Cite web</ref> based in Arnold, Nottinghamshire.<ref name="BBC1">Template:Cite news</ref>
The sale of academic work by Littlewood's and other companies has proved controversial and there have been frequent accusations in the media, especially from universities, that Littlewood's businesses encourage plagiarism.<ref name="NottsU">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> Littlewood claims that the essays are sold to aid students with their research.<ref name="BBC1" />