I often get asked what is the difference between a solicitor and a barrister. The usual answer is that solicitors are the back room boys and barristers stand up in court and present the cases, but that isn’t completely definitive. A more visual example is provided in Tim Kevan’s new book “Law and Peace”, the second volume of BabyBarista’s diaries: barristers wear doublecuffs and hand-made suits, solicitors leather jackets and rucksacks. Hmm.
Over this last long weekend I must confess to not having spent much time thinking about employment law or (given the decision of my laptop to self-destruct just prior to the Royal Wedding) to blogging. But two articles mentioning employment law did catch my attention. One was a spoof, the other deadly serious. Can you tell which?
One article was entitled
It went on thus;
Barrister and writer Tim Kevan has withdrawn the BabyBarista Blog from The Times in reaction to their plans to hide it away behind a subscription-based paywall. He commented: “I didn’t start this blog for it to be the exclusive preserve of a limited few subscribers. I wrote it to entertain whosoever wishes to read it.” The re-launched site is at www.babybarista.com and includes numerous cartoons of the blog’s characters by Times cartoonist Alex Williams.