Tag: Bar professional training course

Over half of ULaw BPTC grads offered pupillage

Successful students are given a barrister's wig

Aug 24 2016 1:57pm

BSB mulls new ‘super bar exam’ that could allow non-graduates to become barristers

Bar regulator to host debate next month discussing three new proposed routes to qualification

Jun 21 2016 2:15pm

Inns of Court launch new ‘College of Advocacy’

Could an Inn-run BPTC be next?

Jun 10 2016 9:49am

BPP Law School loses BPTC ethics exam papers during marking process

Exclusive: Wannabe barristers at London's Holborn branch could have to re-do the exam in August

May 13 2016 9:50am

Research: A third of BPTC graduates secure pupillage

A hazy glimmer of hope for those chasing a career at the bar

May 5 2016 2:10pm

Bar Council brands BSB aptitude pass mark rise ‘inadequate’

Bar's regulator and representative body in stand-off over BPTC entrance exam

Mar 11 2016 8:39am

Aptitude test pass mark raised to ‘exclude’ weaker wannabe barristers

Much-maligned BPTC entry exam was put on hold pending BSB-led review last year

Mar 9 2016 2:37pm

Multiple choice questions to be axed from BPTC ethics exam

But that was how students got their marks?!

Mar 2 2016 12:12pm

Students may have to fork out as much as £127k to chase barrister dream

Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession

Feb 23 2016 12:34pm

Bar Council confirms Pupillage Gateway date change U-turn with consultation launch

Opinions of law students sought over on/off timetabling switch

Nov 25 2015 9:33am

ULaw launches new aptitude test BPTC in Leeds

Law school goes head-to-head with rival BPP in Yorkshire

Nov 18 2015 11:32am

Is Gladbury actually High Wycombe? BPP to reveal identity of fictional law seminar town that has acquired cult following

Mystique around imaginary town that has inspired tribute parties to be shattered

Nov 18 2015 9:47am

Award law scholarships on need rather than merit, urges Lady Justice Hallett

Otherwise legal profession will contain only children of the rich

Nov 6 2015 9:55am

White Book envy: ULaw students aghast as they get online version while BPP kids receive print edition

Exclusive: Part-time BPTC students want practitioner texts they can lug around

Oct 23 2015 10:40am

Scrap BPTC in favour of two year pupillage, urges bar chief

Top crime QC says bar course only benefits law schools and London's landlords

Oct 19 2015 2:15pm

Inner Temple awards top scholarship to bencher’s daughter

Exclusive: £22,000 BPTC prize goes to student with very close family connection to Inn

Sep 29 2015 9:55am

After The BPTC Ethics Exam ‘Very Serious Issue’, Tumbleweed…

It has been a month since the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics exam,...

Apr 18 2013 1:18pm

The mismatch between Bar graduates and pupillages is about to get a whole lot worse…

One thing no one has mentioned in relation to the very serious travails of the...

Mar 19 2013 9:54am

Do As I Say Not As I Do Advocacy Training: Starring Lord Sumption

Last month we analysed the “smug smile” and poor posture which blight Lord Neuberger’s delivery...

Mar 14 2013 10:16am