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BabyBarista described as ‘enormously popular’ at Vanity Fair Online and The Huffington Post

Thanks to journalist and author Michael Wolff for his recent article which has been published at Vanity Fair Online, The Huffington Post and Newser. In the context of The Times’ paywall he said: “Tim Kevan, the author of the Times’ enormously popular legal blog—BabyBarista—recently announced he was leaving his Murdoch home (where he’s gotten two […]

June 11, 2010 · Tim Kevan · 4 Comments
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Marriage-lite

“I hear the Supreme Court may be about to legalise pre-nuptial agreements very soon,” said TheBusker in the clerks room earlier today. “Shame they weren’t around for my first two divorces,” said OldSmoothie. “Or mine,” chorused another five or six lawyers in tandem. TheBusker smiled. “Seems to me that one of the sectors of society […]

June 10, 2010 · Tim Kevan · 3 Comments
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Bar Council publicise my move from The Times

Thanks to The Bar Council for helping to publicise my move away from The Times in this article on their website. They also very kindly publicised my book BabyBarista and the Art of War in the same way last year. Whilst I’m at it, I’m very pleased to see that Counsel Magazine now has its own dedicated […]

June 2, 2010 · Tim Kevan · Comments Closed
Tags: blogs, paywall · Posted in: Uncategorized

The new iPratt

OldSmoothie spent the whole weekend emailing people from his shiny new iPad hoping that they’d notice that it says ‘Sent from my iPad’. Unfortunately for him, what he hasn’t yet realised is that BusyBody got hold of it on Friday morning when he ostentatiously and wholly ‘by accident’ left it lying around in the clerks […]

June 1, 2010 · Tim Kevan · 5 Comments
Tags: babyb, chambers · Posted in: Uncategorized

• Newer Entries »

• THE MAIN CHARACTERS

• OldSmoothie

  
• Think Peter Bowles in To The Manor Born and Milk Tray Man, but not quite. Once successful barrister now put out to graze as a committee man.

• TheCreep

  
• Jumped up little twerp who sucks up to the big beasts in chambers and struts around as if he's really something when actually he's not.

• SlipperySlope

  
  

  Solicitor skilled in the art of creative billing. Has the airs and graces of a country squire but is more a cross between Arthur Daley and Boycie from 'Only Fools and Horses'.

• Smutton

  
  

  Brassy to UpTights’s classy and yet still, somehow, sexy.

• NurserySlope

  
  

  Solicitor who is SlipperySlope's neice. Skis, rides and looks like a horse.

• JetSet

  
  

  A new solicitor character who's got a training contract and lords it over PanicStricken. She's wealthy, well- connected and spends most weekends either skiing or clubbing abroad.

• ScandalMonger

  
• Ruthless PR guru who has become one of BabyB's secret litigation weapons

• BigMouth

  
• Pompous Tory MP stuck on the backbenches like a piece of old chewing gum

• BusyBody

  
• A whirlwind of interference with a good heart and always up for a fight, particularly with OldSmoothie.

• TopFirst

  
• BabyB’s sworn enemy and former fellow pupil

• BabyBarista

  
• A young Flashman meets Rumpole meets Francis Urquart for the 21st century

• OldFatherTime

  
• A whisper on the wind, Highlander-type figure who is older than time itself

• TheVamp

  
• Tenant in chambers and a walking Carry On film of an innuendo

• OldRuin

  
• How a barrister should be. Dumbledore meets Clarence, the angel in Its a Wonderful Life. BabyB’s redemption.

• TheBusker

  
• Barrister of ten years call with the integrity and decency of OldRuin. Very laid back in his approach to both court and life. Admired by BabyB.

• TheBoss

  
• BabyB’s ex-pupilmaster. Unscrupulous, spineless coward.

• HeadClerk

  
• The real power in chambers. All seeing, all knowing.

• PupilFodder

  
• Learner Barrister foisted upon his unsuspecting client who gets shredded in court

• UpTights

  
• BabyB’s pupilmistress for his second six months who was almost called BoTucks for the work she’s had done. Insists on boundaries and personal space. Has ‘issues’.

• JudgeJewellery

  
• Judge with penchant for stealing high street trinkets