Tag: Pupillage

Five things we wish we’d known before pupillage

Words of wisdom from two Hardwicke pupil barristers ahead of application deadline day

Apr 28 2016 1:22pm

Legal charity launches new family law focused social welfare pupillage scheme

Special two-year fellowship that will see successful candidates split their time between Bar Pro Bono Unit and chambers

Apr 14 2016 10:32am

Top EU law chambers ups pupillage award to £65,000 as Brexit vote looms

Monckton Chambers chucks an extra £5,000 at its junior legal talent

Mar 23 2016 9:19am

Pupillage interviews uncovered: law students filmed being grilled by top barristers

We spoke to a BPTC graduate who featured in a new interview project

Feb 11 2016 2:36pm

Blackstone boosts pupillage award from £60k to £65k to keep pace with elite sets

Big-money commercial and public law set throws an extra £5,000 at its baby barristers

Feb 5 2016 9:11am

Pupillage Gateway will be moved to January from 2017

After previous false start the Bar Council finally gives date change the go-ahead

Jan 18 2016 7:28am

Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k

London set bucks downward pay trend

Jan 12 2016 9:27am

Pupil barrister hit with £1,000 fine after plagiarising skeleton argument in moot competition

Bar Standards Board refuses to reveal the chambers at which Samuel Campbell practises

Dec 15 2015 9:23am

The BPTC is a ‘rip-off’ says former head of Bar Standards Board

Ridiculously low pupillage success rate highlighted by Baroness Deech

Dec 8 2015 4:06pm

‘X-Factorish bollocks’: Bar Council slammed for endorsing junior barrister’s ‘Never give up!’ blog

UCL legal academic and top QC lead criticism of regulator for sharing touching story

Dec 7 2015 10:13am

REVEALED: The BPTC providers with the highest chance of pupillage

Northumbria is the worst; BPP London is the best -- but overall rate is poor

Dec 1 2015 1:55pm

New official ‘online hub’ tells young barristers to lose weight and stop 5-day benders

Young Barristers' Committee venture does, however, contain some useful snippets of advice

Oct 23 2015 9:09am

How to survive the pupillage Hunger Games

Hardwicke's two new tenants reveal how they made it to fully-fledged barrister status

Sep 30 2015 12:33pm

Bar Council snubs legal aid chambers over pupillage fair rates

Organisers claim event will widen pool of applicants, but class divisions between haves and have-nots will be clearly on display

Aug 27 2015 9:16am

Pupillage Gateway might not move to January after all

Bar Council in possible U-turn over centralised application switch

Aug 12 2015 12:02pm

Bar Council must delay plans to move Pupillage Gateway deadline

Clarity is urgently needed instead of tumbleweed blowing across the website’s alerts page

Jul 20 2015 11:28am

City law firm breaks silence over mysterious pupillage award process

International niche litigation player Kobre & Kim denies it attempted to breach the spirit of bar’s recruitment rules

Jul 9 2015 12:06pm

Spotlight on London niche litigation law firm over alleged possible pupillage rule breach

International boutique practice Kobre & Kim refuses to comment on fate of wannabe barrister applications

Jul 7 2015 2:14pm

1 Gray’s Inn Square silent after barrister fined for inappropriate sexual conduct towards pupil

David Giles' profile mysteriously disappears from set's website following bar disciplinary panel finding

Jul 6 2015 11:58am