At 24, Gulliver's life was not meant to turn out like this.

His father, Daniel, is a self-made successful property developer and builder. So Theodore was bought up in Edgbaston and attended King Edwards School.

After a period bumming around the world of amateur rugby, Gulliver went to Cambridge and his father bought him a place to do articles with Joseph Bankers, the best law firm in Manchester, specialising in contract law for the motor trade.

From there, the plan was simple: once he'd made partner, Gulliver would stand for Parliament and develop a political career.

So when Gulliver gets bored with parsing contracts and takes a job as a trainee duty solicitor, it's a huge disappointment to his father and Gulliver himself is shocked to move from a neat world of timed appointments to a blur of frenetic process.

Without the protection of money and ambition, Gulliver suddenly realises he's experienced racism without ever really experiencing race.

So every action, every choice becomes a moral decision. Not just about the case, but about who he is, who he wants to be, where he comes from.

In the inner city, there's no such thing as society, only us and them, and newcomers like Gulliver stranded somewhere in between. You burn with one kind of anger when you see people forced to live like that. But you burn with a different kind of anger, if you think they choose to.

Awash in a sea of prejudice, Gulliver has to discover whether he has any of his own. He has to walk a line between acting like an "Uncle Tom", and the assumption that if you're a brother being a brother comes before any questions of right and wrong.

Personally, Gulliver's shrewd, observant and with a strict attitude to the rules: never break the one that makes sense. He's bright enough to realise there's always something more he can do. He's stupid enough to do it.

He deals with the way things are, rather than the way people would like them to be. But he'd rather see justice done than take a case to court for the sake of it.

So at the sharp end, Gulliver is his own man. He'll follow a case through without fear or favour no matter where it leads. He won't be pushed or squeezed. It's nothing fancy or provocative but the only thing Gulliver's prepared to be stubborn about is the truth.