Guardian signs up Times blogger who quit over paywall

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The Guardian has taken on a law blogger who quit writing for the Times because of its paywall plans.

Tim Kevan, whose BabyBarista blog , a fictional account of a junior barrister at the English bar, appeared on the Times for more than three years, left the site in May.

The Times today launched its new paywall for access beyond the homepage, while Guardian.co.uk announced a new home for Kevan's blog on its recently revamped law section.

"One minute I was writing for the Times. Then along came a massive great paywall and having managed to escape in the nick of time, I then found myself headhunted by those kindly souls at Guardian Law ," says Kevan in an introductory blog post .

Kevan will continue to run the Babybarista.com site and is one of a new group of blog partners for Guardian.co.uk: "[I]t's exciting to be the pilot scheme in their new online strategy of partnering with bloggers such as myself. What this means in reality is that the main BabyBarista content will appear both here and as a blog at www.guardian.co.uk/babybarista. Meanwhile this site will retain its separate identity and include not only the usual blog posts but such extras as guest posts and videos."