Pupil barrister blog/Barristerreferendarblog
am 31.03.2007 von Transblawg
BabyBarista is the weblog of a probably fictitious trainee barrister. It's probably written by a barrister, though. It has been running since 2 October 2006:
Twelve months living in close proximity before they decide whether to take you on or not. A sort of upper class reality show in microcosm where every one of your foibles will be analysed, where a blackball system exists such that if you annoy one person, you’re out. As with Big Brother, you’re playing to the lowest common denominator. Attempting to be as inoffensive as possible in the sound knowledge that it won’t be the votes for that get you in but the lack of votes against.
(via Delia Venables)
There are a lot of links to similar weblogs.
This reminded me that I recently read Harry Mount, My Brief Career - The trials of a young lawyer. That is an account of a year as a pupil barrister. The barristers and chambers are anonymised, the characters are composites but the incidents based on things that really happened.
This was a really well-written, readable book. The author decided that being a barrister was not for him and is now a journalist. I think it might be of interest to someone thinking of being a barrister. Still, there were a few negative points. The book was really short and it looked as if the pages were a bit underfilled, and in view of this, some of the topics were developed at disproportionate length, for instance the description of the kind of …
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