Good Bastards Hall of Fame

The Honest Lawyer
Kevin Jaffe and partner Michele

One of the things we do on this site is take the well-deserved piss out solicitors. There are so many of them that unashamedly rip the common punter and Good Bastard off The general consensus of Good Bastards is they should have a tattoo on their foreheads saying, Don’t trust me, I’m a Lawyer Unless they can present a list of at least 80% of their clients that are satisfied they received value for their charges.

There are exceptions, and how refreshing they are when you find one.

One definite such exception is Kevin Jaffe. So much so that Kev was invited to come down to the Good Bastards Hilton with Kerbs, Hyndsie and me. We front down there for a few fantastic days with original Good Bastards Pat Condon and Mike Alford once a year after Good Bastards Day in November.

It was Pat that dubbed Kev the honest lawyer at one of Good Bastard secret business meetings, and it sort of stuck.

Kev is always good for a bit of robust debate and that adds colour to any Good Bastards secret business meeting.

His partner Michele is a journo and can write some pretty good stuff. She’s not too bad at selling Good Bastards beer and is a good looker as well.

I first met Kev in 1980 when he was very much younger and as matter of coincidence, so was I. Kerbs and I were over at his place on Great Barrier Island and the Jaffe family had a retreat next door.

Kev and his brother were down the beach with Kerbs doing something and I was to join them later. I had been the only one to get up at the crack of dawn and go fishing. I was rewarded with a 22-pound snapper for my efforts.

Anyway I had to have a bit of a rest and later when I went to catch up with them, I was walking past Kevs place just as it was starting to catch fire, some sort of stove or heater or something had done something. Another ten minutes and she would have been well alight. It was only small and easy to smother.

Kevin is a quiet but very sincere bloke and it is easy to see why Hyndsie and Kerbs choose him as their solicitor.

Heres to you Kevin and Michele, a couple of real Good Bastards.

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