Book description
BabyBarista may have won the battle for tenancy, but the war
has just begun.
In his pupilage year,
BabyBarista learned the hard way that dirty tricks and a faulty moral
compass are essential items in a young lawyer's briefcase. Now, as the
newest tenant in chambers, he must face down old enemies, try to win
compensation for a group of ASBO-attracting pensioners, and unravel the
complicated knots of his love life - not to mention his mother's
finances.
Under the wise and watchful eye of OldRuin,
BabyBarista tries to keep his nose (and his wig) clean, but when
SlipperySlope, an unscrupulous solicitor offers him a quick way out of
his financial difficulties he soon becomes embroiled in blackmail, dodgy
share-dealing and the dark arts of litigation. With his old adversary,
TopFirst out for revenge, and the chance to be awarded a coveted 'red
bag' at stake, BabyB must use all the tricks of his trade to extricate
himself from his legal quagmire, win the case for his mad old clients,
and somehow convince his best friend to fall in love with
him.
Chronicling the hilarious and sometimes almost
unbelievable absurdities of the modern bar, and peopled by a cast of
unforgettable characters, Law and Peace
is a funny,
fast-paced Machiavellian romp through the legal world. Tim Kevan is a
barrister and writer. As well as
writing the BabyBarista blog first for The
Times
and now for the Guardian
,
he 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 also the co-author, with Dr Michelle Tempest, of Why Lawyers
Should Surf
. He now
lives by the sea in Braunton in North Devon, goes surfing at the merest
hint of
swell and is a co-founder of two businesses which provide online legal
training
and publishing respectively: 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.
