First Day
Week 1 Day 1First Class Degree from Oxford - checkDistinction in the CPE - check"Very Competent" in Bar Finals - checkSenior Scholarship from the Inn - checkWalking into chambers on the first day of my...
View ArticleRunners and riders - I'm playing catch-up
No, I am not working on a Saturday, it is just that I only started doing this yesterday and in the blog I didn't even get as far as the room which will be my home for the next six months before I gave...
View ArticleThe Boy In The Bubble - Mea Culpa
Week 2, Day 3Now it may be a classic case of "Stockholm Syndrome" but after having had a bit of time to ponder the past few days I have begun to see something in what PM has said (and many thanks to...
View ArticleShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Since commencing my pupillage I have been much preoccupied with the issue of the dignity to be accorded to the pupil.I got off on a bad footing on the dignity front thanks to some duff advice from an...
View ArticleA Man For All Seasons?
Week 2, Day 5Well, I have made it to the end of week two and can report that week 2 went a whole lot better than week 1. I am managing to keep a lid on the paranoia, thanks to the comments of fellow...
View ArticleChambers Drinks (but Numbers doesn't)
Week 3, Day 2Pupillage is full of trials and tests. Some of them are simpler than others. The menial tasks that pupils tend to obsess about (me included) sometimes come as something of a relief as it...
View ArticleUnleash Hell!
Week 4, Day 1I am grateful to Anonymous for inspiring today's post. In a comment on Tuesday's post he mentioned that he couldn't help feeling from reading the various barristerial (yes I know it's not...
View ArticleSeventh Heaven
Week 4, Day 4I speak not of The Arsenal but of PP himself who, I am happy to report, is currently tapping away from his cloud in the seventh and uppermost circle of Heaven. For PM has smiled upon...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Makes a Bundle and The Baby Barrister With The Babbling Heart
Having a healthy sense of perspective doesn't come naturally to me. When told to count my blessings I generally conclude that someone has had their hands in the till and there aren't as many as there...
View ArticleHow time flies when you're....
....actually doing some work for once!Apologies for the radio silence of the last month. The demands of pupillage have ratcheted up a gear or two and I have struggled to find time to post. Even though...
View ArticleWork For Idle Hands
Or indeed the hands of the not so idle. Just when I thought that things were easing up I find myself busy again due to the extreme busyness of the rest of chambers. One of the junior tenants is doing...
View ArticleMany Are Called, But Few Are Chosen....
Apologies for not posting for such a very very long time (and for the mixing of enough metaphors in this post to give you all a terrible hangover tomorrow). The thing is, PP has been just a little bit...
View ArticleThree of them, and Alleline
When we started out there were four of us, and Control has yet to narrow the field, for four we remain. Have been getting into my John Le Carre recently so I am afraid that my posts might have become a...
View ArticlePP Discovers New Maxim of Equity
What is it with people on the second from bottom rung of the ladder? Am working on a case with PM at the moment on which our instructing solicitors are a big City firm. It is a big case with big...
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