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Objectifying Life

Sometimes legal practise seems like a never-ending round of technical points. Nit-picking at the margins to bring a little more injustice to the world. It’s no wonder some lawyers get depressed. It’s as if they live in the shadow of the real world. Looking at it through their own peculiar prism and seeing only a watered down reflection of reality. Breaking it down into neat and tidy little issues. Objectifying life. Sucking the poetry from our souls and leaving a world in which everything is boiled down to some cynical legal platitude. Where even real life heroes are made ordinary. A world in which they are the masters. A world where they know everything and yet, nothing at all.

Today I’m done with it and I’m dropping the wig and going off on holiday for a few days.

BabyBarista is a fictional account of a junior barrister written by Tim Kevan. You can buy the latest BabyBarista novel, 'Law and Peace' on Amazon. The cartoons are by Alex Williams, author of The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus.

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