PI Brief Update

ClicheClanger

My solicitor today was ClicheClanger who has spent so many years working in a job he despises that the thought bubbles which plague us all from time to time have slowly transformed themselves into unconscious speech bubbles.  Stuff he still thinks is being kept under wraps keeps slipping out like a gentle version of tourrette’s.  Kind of just leaks out.  As if the walls of his mind have slowly eroded away under the years of resentment and worry.

“Well, BabyB.  You know the score.  I don’t know why I even bother to write out the instructions.”

Which to be fair he hardly had.  All they said was, “Counsel is instructed to win the case.”  Anyway, he elaborate further in our telephone conversation,

“It’s all so petty and meaningless.  Who cares if he’s a malingerer anyway?  I mean I’d malinger given half the chance.”

Then.  Before I had the chance to give an awkward reply.

“You just go and bash him on the nose BabyB.  Hit him for six just for our insurer clients.  Add a bit more misery into our miserable world.”

Then he finished with,

“Yes, you give them their money’s worth, that’s a good lad.”

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.