Archive for July, 2010
Weekend video: Idealistic law students beware…
July 31, 2010
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Endgame in Afghanistan – incredible film by Sean Smith for The Guardian
July 29, 2010
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Drawn swords and driving sheep
“I hear you’re about to be made a freeman of the City of London,” said UpTights today.
“Yes,” said OldSmoothie puffing out his chest as if we were meant to be impressed. “Should help my case for becoming a people’s peer as well.”
“Yeh, right,” said BusyBody. “Because being given some sort of masonic award for having [...]
July 29, 2010
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Counting the inches
TheCreep was explaining tripping accidents caused by holes in the pavement to a couple of the pupils today.
“It all boils down to whether it’s half an inch or an inch,” he said in his usual patronising little squeak.
Unfortunately for him TheVamp again happened to be passing at just the wrong time. After he’d said the [...]
July 26, 2010
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Don’t forget jury trials in the great repeal act
I’ve just written the second in my series of monthly articles for The Guardian Law (under my real name) urging the government to repeal the provision that allows for judge-only trials. You can read the article here and follow the series here.
July 26, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
Once again I’m delighted to offer another cartoon by Alex Williams who not only draws the cartoons on this blog but also the Queen’s Counsel cartoons both for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He has also had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He [...]
July 26, 2010
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Weekend video: Law School is so easy!
July 24, 2010
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Mini-pupil fest
Chambers is currently awash with law students on their Summer holidays doing mini-pupillage.
“Mini-pupillages are a complete and utter waste of time for everyone,” said OldSmoothie.
“It is for those who get you at least,” said BusyBody. “Though in itself that’s probably a valuable insight into life at the Bar.”
“It’s definitely good for the CV,” said TheCreep. [...]
July 23, 2010
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Poem on Rob the Rubbish by Radio 4’s Matt Harvey
The wonderful Radio 4 Saturday Live poet (and fellow Devon resident) Matt Harvey did a poem about my (Tim Kevan’s) Dad Robin Kevan in his guise as Rob the Rubbish a few years ago which was broadcast on Fi Glover’s programme on Radio 4. Now it’s going to appear in a new book by Matt [...]
July 22, 2010
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Inspiring post of the day: introducing Rob the Rubbish!
There’s a lovely letter from my (ie Tim Kevan’s) Dad Robin Kevan in The Independent today about picking up litter. He is famously known as Rob the Rubbish for his efforts which include not only cleaning up his local area but also mountains such as Snowdon, Scafell and Ben Nevis and as far afield as [...]
July 21, 2010
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The pupil strikes back
I felt sorry for my opponent today at least at the start. He’s a tall skinny fresh-faced pupil who looks as if he’d completely topple over if you were even to blow in his direction. Kind of a posh English version of Napoleon Dynamite with the sort of face which looks as if it’s constantly [...]
July 19, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
Once again I’m delighted to offer another cartoon by Alex Williams who not only draws the cartoons on this blog but also the Queen’s Counsel cartoons both for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He has also had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He [...]
July 19, 2010
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Weekend video: That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A & E
July 17, 2010
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Barrister mating rituals
After their failed negotiation of last week, UpTights and OldSmoothie were against each other in court yesterday. OldSmoothie’s pupil was careful to take an accurate note of their learned last words on the case before they went into court and then he immediately posted it on Facebook. “You’re a stretched and gabbling shrew-faced old haridan [...]
July 15, 2010
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The age of prosperity
HeadClerk made an announcement at chambers tea today. “With all this talk of cuts and a double dip recession, what we must not forget is that wherever there is hardship, there is opportunity.”
“What? Insolvency, repossessions, divorce…?” asked TheCreep.
“Yes, we certainly need to be advertising in those traditional areas. But the biggest opportunity facing us at [...]
July 13, 2010
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Service industry
“I hate clients,” said Teflon as he arrived back into chambers after an obviously hard day in court.
“The world would be so much easier without them,” smiled TheVamp.
“Quite right,” said OldSmoothie. “No more whining on in conference, getting witness statements wrong and then complaining when they have to pay even though they lost.”
“And that’s just [...]
July 12, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
Once again I’m delighted to offer another cartoon by Alex Williams who not only draws the cartoons on this blog but also the Queen’s Counsel cartoons both for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He has also had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He [...]
July 12, 2010
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Weekend video: Monty Python court room scene
July 10, 2010
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Amending the record
I gave OldSmoothie my note of his, er, case conference with BigMouth today. Basically it consisted of telling BigMouth that he should declare all the cash he’s received from his banker friend both to Parliament and probably also the taxman. However, he’d then gone on on to whisper that although that was his strict advice, [...]
July 8, 2010
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UpTights’ suppositories
UpTights and OldSmoothie were negotiating a case today whilst they were in the clerks’ room and half of chambers seemed to be there to hear it. At one point UpTights said: “Well, I suppose…”
OldSmoothie immediately rolled his eyes and interrupted with: “Oh don’t give me another one of your long rambling ’supposes’ UpTights.”
Then TheVamp made [...]
July 7, 2010
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Law and Disorder: coming soon…
Advance copies of Law and Disorder: Confessions of Pupil Barrister have just arrived. This is the mass market edition of BabyBarista and the Art of War which was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as “a wonderful, racing read – well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud” and by The Times as “a cross between The [...]
July 6, 2010
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Shining wits
OldSmoothie had another conference with BigMouth, the backbench Tory MP today and I was once again drafted in to take the minutes. Except that this time the conference took place on the terrace of the House of Commons with a jug of Pimms for company and within half an hour the two of them were [...]
July 6, 2010
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Greed is good
Chambers tea was fizzing today following an announcement by HeadofChambers in which he proposed that chambers should follow the Bar Council chairman’s shiny new model for running chambers.
“It’ll mean that we can steal on in there and get block contracts from insurers and accident managers,” said HeadClerk, who clearly had a lot more idea what [...]
July 5, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
Once again I’m delighted to offer another cartoon by Alex Williams who not only draws the cartoons on this blog but also the Queen’s Counsel cartoons both for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He has also had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He [...]
July 5, 2010
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Weekend video: ‘The Suit’ by Douglas Ray
July 3, 2010
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