Barclay Littlewood

Barclay Littlewood
Born (1978-05-11) 11 May 1978
Huddersfield, England, UK
Residence London, England
Nationality British
Occupation Founder of Ukessays.com
Years active 1994–present
Net worth £7 million (2008)[1]
Religion Roman Catholic

Barclay James Littlewood[2] (born 1978 in Huddersfield[2]) is a British entrepreneur who founded Ukessays.com, a commercial plagiarism service which sells essays and other academic work over the internet to students in the UK, the US and Western Europe for the express purpose of representing that work as their own.[3] Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.[4][5]

After training as a barrister at Gray's Inn, Littlewood set up his operation in 2003,[6] based in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire.[7]

All Answers claim to offer work of a quantifiable academic standard - 2:1 and 1st Class level - that is unpublished and scanned using university plagiarism detection software.

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.[8][9] Littlewood claims that the essays are sold to aid students with their research.[7]

Littlewood claims to have discovered a scientific way to God.[10] He offers his method for free on his website and also charges up to £6,000 a day for his services.[11] He also works as a business consultant to large businesses under the name Business Bliss.[12]

See also

Essay mill

References

  1. ↑ Sunday Times rich list
  2. 1 2 GRO Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1837 – 1983
  3. ↑ Sanghera, Sathnam (2007-07-16). "Want to know how to get rich? Me too". Timesonline.co.uk (London: The Times). Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  4. ↑ From the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
    use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work
    qtd. in Stepchyshyn, Vera; Nelson, Robert S. (2007). Library plagiarism policies. Assoc. of College & Resrch Libraries. p. 65. ISBN 0838984169.
  5. ↑ From the Oxford English Dictionary:
    the wrongful appropriation or purloining and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas… of another
    qtd. in Lands (1999)
  6. ↑ "About UKEssays". ukessays.com. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
  7. 1 2 "Essays company denies wrongdoing". BBC Online (BBC). 2006-08-01. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  8. ↑ "Press-Up National Archive". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  9. ↑ Taylor, Matthew; Butt, Riazat (2006-07-29). "Q: How do you make £1.6m a year and drive a Ferrari? A: Sell essays for £400". Guardian Unlimited (The Guardian). Archived from the original on 27 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  10. ↑ Barclay Littlewood website - http://www.barclaylittlewood.com Retrieved 2014-11-30
  11. ↑ Legal Cheek Article 2014-06-24 http://www.legalcheek.com/2013/06/non-practising-barrister-behind-controversial-essay-writing-company-rebrands-as-self-help-guru
  12. ↑ Business Bliss http://www.business-bliss.com Retrieved 2015-2-18

The Sunday Times Rich List 2008


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