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Starting pupillage: ‘So much to learn but hopefully a chance to teach a...
Two years after being called to the Bar, OccupyTheInns prepares to become a fully-fledged barrister As the northern European autumn begins her windy and rainy procession towards winter, it is with...
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Pupillage-less BPTC grad among the ‘25 most influential Londoners aged under 25′
There's no doubt that Gabrielle Turnquest's achievement in becoming the youngest person to be called to the Bar in 600 years is impressive. But is the 18 year-old — who is shortly to start a masters...
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Does the way that lawyers are encouraged to think and work make them...
A high stress job combined with a temperamental inclination to analyse and pick apart can leave lawyers unusually exposed to poor mental health, argues WaitroseLaw Nobody reading about the tragic...
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‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s...
In a line of work that's not exactly secure, it's helpful to gain early experience at dealing with adversity, reckons Doughty Street's Francis FitzGibbon QC I didn’t know any lawyers. My mother’s...
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Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?
A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice secretary claimed to have arranged to shadow two members of the Bar in July. Since it was published over the...
View ArticleTooks Chambers to be dissolved
After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures, Michael Mansfield QC's set Tooks Chambers has announced that it is to wind up its operations. Very sad news. It...
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The legal profession’s first tweets
It's easy to forget that today's highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media debutantes — with a limit on how far back archived tweets could be searched facilitating the...
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Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week
It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually using the phone box while its barrister-based ad is plastered on the door... Image by Zaffster (Instagram)
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Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been missing since leaving a young barristers event at Middle Temple on Friday evening. Could anyone...
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Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC...
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too big and that access to the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) should be further restricted. Baroness Ruth Deech's...
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Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession it was revealed that law school fees have left 65% of respondents to a Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) survey over...
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‘There are moments in court when you wish the ground would swallow you up’
9-12 Bell Yard head of chambers Mukul Chawla QC wishes he'd been able to make mistakes in the privacy of an advocacy training session rather than in front of a jury In September 1984, just as I was...
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Barrister offers domestic cleaning and gardening service
In these difficult times for the junior Bar, it's good to see one of its members embracing the principle of diversification so open-mindedly... Spotted on Craigslist recently: a barrister offering a...
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‘Do we need more law courses?’ asks top QC as new BPTC course opens with...
The fact that pupillage numbers are at their lowest for many years hasn't stopped BPP Law School opening yet another Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) this autumn. The launch party for the new...
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Chancery Lane looks like a bomb has hit it
Chancery Lane has undergone an amazing transformation over the past few days as it provides the setting for upcoming historical drama The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira...
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What do Bar graduates think of the new Inns of Court scheme to create...
The new Inns of Court subsidy scheme to help publicly-funded chambers offer more pupillages caused quite a stir when it was announced last month. Legal Cheek reporter Thomas Connelly, who completed the...
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Do barristers really ‘christen’ their wigs?
In the Evening Standard today an unnamed criminal barrister discusses a ritual called “christening the wig”... He comments: “When you get your wig you’ve got to shag in it. You get more kudos if you...
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‘If you recognise fear in yourself you are more able to see it in others’
At first, Caspar Glyn QC assumed the terror he felt before appearing in court was a disadvantage. But, over time, he has come to appreciate its benefits... I was terrified when I started working as a...
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This is not just footage of Middle Temple. This is M&S footage of Middle Temple
Large chunks of the new Marks and Spencer's Christmas ad, which debuted on TV last night, were filmed in Middle Temple... The ad sees a young woman, who we can only assume is a barrister, journey from...
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Pupillage-less Bar grad can’t call himself a ‘barrister’ anymore after he...
An "unregistered barrister" has been struck off for the somewhat unconventional professional faux pas of endangering a police helicopter... Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Mohammed...
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