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    Law and Disorder: Confessions of a Pupil Barrister
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    Law and Disorder: Confessions of a Pupil Barrister

    By Tim Kevan

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    Litigation is like war, BabyBarista. Read this and learn.

    It's BabyBarista's first day as a pupil barrister in chambers. Never mind his legal qualifications; it's his summer working in Starbucks that's going to stand him in good stead, since coffee-making seems to be his chief responsibility (with the odd bout of photocopying to relieve the tedium). He's got one year to make his mark and prove by foul means or fair that, out of the four pupil barristers, he's the one who deserves to stay on and win the sought-after prize of a tenancy in chambers. It's sort of like Big Brother, but with little horsehair wigs.

    Once assigned to a pupilmaster, an oily character he calls TheBoss, BabyB retreats to his tiny desk in a dusty corner to consider the competition: TopFirst, a Cambridge graduate with a prizewinning CV and an ego to match; BusyBody, a human whirlwind on a husband hunt; and finally wide-eyed Worrier, who carries the world on her anxious shoulders. 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles,' says Sun Tzu, whose book The Art of War is becoming BabyB's bible. Quietly, he smiles to himself, and begins to make some plans...

    Puncturing pomposity and exposing injustice with subversive wit, this diary of a nobody is an hilarious tour around the modern bar.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9781408811214
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    Law and Disorder: Confessions of a Pupil Barrister
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    Tim Kevan

    Tim Kevan practised as a barrister in London for ten years, during which time he wrote or co-wrote ten law books and was a regular legal pundit for television and radio. He is the author of Law and Disorder, which was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as 'a wonderful, racing read - well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh-out-loud', and Law and Peace. He is the co-author of Why Lawyers Should Surf (with Dr Michelle Tempest). He now lives by the sea in Braunton in North Devon where he surfs and continues to write the BabyBarista Blog for the Guardian. He is also the co-founder of two businesses, CPD Webinars and Law Brief Publishing. Brought up in Minehead in Somerset, he was educated at Cambridge and was a scholar of the Middle Temple.

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    • 4/5
      This book is well worth reading whether you are have an interest in Law or not.
      A humorous behind-the-scenes story of Pupil Barristers, their Pupil Masters and all manner of antics going in Chambers as the Pupils slug it out for Tenancy.