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My Learned Friend
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the English Bar, the rules are written down. The important ones aren't.
Theo Bell arrives at Lincoln's Inn with a scholarship, a sharp sense of justice and almost no idea how much of a barrister's education takes place over dinner.
Between qualifying sessions, pupillage applications, wigs, clerks, judges and the mysterious professional weapon known as with respect, Theo discovers that merit matters - but so do confidence, connections, timing and knowing which traditions are principles and which are simply habits nobody remembers questioning.
Then a public-law case involving a defective government contractor and a century-old legal authority reveals something considerably more serious. A proposition repeated by courts for generations may rest not upon precedent, but upon punctuation.
As Theo follows the paper trail, he must decide what advocacy really demands: winning, belonging, preserving the institution - or saying plainly what everyone else has learned to phrase more politely.
My Learned Friend is a sharp, intelligent and affectionate satire of the English Bar: a novel about class, ambition, access to justice, professional language and the peculiar institutions that survive by teaching each new generation how to speak their language.
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