Ian Lorimer is a

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, most noted for being the director for the British

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'' QI''. He is also a director of ''

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''. Formerly a freelance vision mixer, Lorimer is well known in the British television industry for winning a court case against the

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over his tax status as a freelancer, which served as a precedent for many other media workers.

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