pupillage

Article: 3rd Six Pupillage Vacancies

Chambers can advertise 3rd six pupillage vacancies on the Bar Council website free of charge.

Article: 3rd Six Pupillage Vacancies

Chambers can advertise 3rd six pupillage vacancies on the Bar Council website free of charge.Please email your advert to Wendy McLaughlin:  WMcLaughlin@BarCouncil.org.uk       Tel: 020 7611 6431 / www.barcouncil.org.uk

Article: Advocacy accreditation scheme nears completion

Legal trainingAll criminal advocates, including QCs, will be subject to compulsory re-accreditation every five years, the Joint Advocacy Group (JAG) has confirmed.JAG has published its analysis of responses to its proposals for the scheme, which is...

Article: Aptitude test for BVC students

A new aptitude test for prospective Bar Professional Training Course students applying to start the course (previously known as the Bar Vocational Course) in 2011 is to be piloted from the beginning of February. The Bar Standards Board is appealing...

Article: Bar Council kicks off week of events to promote entry to the Bar

ON 8 July 2010 the Bar Council launched a week-long programme of events aimed at promoting and enhancing better access to the profession. This included a day-long conference in Birmingham for sixth-formers interested in a career at the Bar and the...

Article: Bar ‘setting the pace’ on social mobility - new report

THE Bar Council, in conjunction with the Inns of Court, has launched No bar to the Bar, a review of the diverse measures adopted by the profession to help all those of ability to have access to a career as a barrister, regardless of their background....

Article: BSB monitoring visits to Vocational Course providers

It was agreed by the Bar Standards Board's Education & Training Committee that reports of BSB monitoring visits to Bar Vocational Course providers should be published on the BSB website from the Academic Year 2009-10. Reports from some of the...

Article: BSB’s review of pupillage published

The Bar Standards Board (“BSB”) has published a major report reviewing pupillage training for the Bar, following its meeting on 17 May.The report is the second in a three step review of all stages of education for practice at the Bar, led by Derek Woo...

Article: Chinese lawyers welcomed to LCTS programme at reception

EACH year, fifteen Chinese lawyers participate in the Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for Young Chinese Lawyers (LCTS). The Bar Council and Law Society were delighted to formally welcome this year’s LCTS lawyers at a reception held at the Law Soc...

Article: Completion of Pupillage

Pupils will not be eligible to take up a tenancy or a position as an employed barrister until they have been issued with a full qualification certificate, which certifies completion of pupillage.

Article: Diversity in the legal profession

Barristers’ chambers should adopt formal, regulated mentoring schemes to encourage diversity, a Legal Services Board (“LSB”) report has recommended.

Article: End of your non-practising period of pupillage

Things to remember if you are approaching the end of your nonpractising period of pupillage: Make sure that your pupil supervisor signs your Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Pupillage and that you submit it to the Bar Standards Board...

Article: Important information for pupil barristers and pupil supervisors

When the relevant parts of the Legal Services Act 2007 come into force on 1 January 2010, it will become a criminal offence to undertake a reserved legal activity, such as exercising a right of audience without having in force a valid practising...

Article: Important information for pupil barristers coming to the end of their first six

When the relevant parts of the Legal Services Act 2007 came into force on the 1 January 2010, it became a criminal offence to undertake a reserved legal activity, such as exercising a right of audience, without having in force a valid practising...

Article: Important information for pupil barristers coming to the end of their first six

When the relevant parts of the Legal Services Act 2007 came into force on the 1 January 2010, it became a criminal offence to undertake a reserved legal activity, such as exercising a right of audience, without having in force a valid practising...

Article: Junior Criminal Bar under threat from botched legal aid reforms warns Commons Committee

ON 2 February 2010, the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a damning report on the Legal Services Commission’s handling of legal aid reform. The report on criminal legal aid procurement also warns that the increased...

Article: Mediation education

Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, has called for mediation and alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) to be made a part of every lawyer’s education.

Article: New practitioners’ programme

In the first three years’ of practice, newly qualified practitioners are required to complete 45 hours of continuing professional development (CPD), including at least 9 hours of Advocacy Training and 3 hours of Ethics (the “New Practitioners’...

Article: New pupillage handbook is released

The Bar Standards Board (“BSB”) has published a new pupillage handbook, available on its website and in hard copy, writes Valerie Shrimplin.

Article: No bar to the Bar

Two years after publication of Lord Neuberger’s Entry to the Bar Working Party Report, the Bar Council launched “No bar to the Bar: barristers promoting social mobility”, a brochure setting out the work done by the Bar in this area and the initiatives...

Article: Pupillage

Commencement of pupillage A period of pupillage is not valid unless and until it has been registered with the Bar Standards Board. All pupils will receive confirmation of registration by email.

Article: Pupillage Commencement of pupillage

A period of pupillage is not valid unless and until it has been registered with the Bar Standards Board. All pupils will receive confirmation of registration by email. Anyone who has commenced a period of pupillage without registering it should...

Article: Pupillage consultation

A steering group has been set up to address the recommendations in the Review of Pupillage Report

Article: Pupillage forum

The BSB has set up a private forum, on its website, for current pupillage students to discuss their pupillage experiences. This forum will run for the length of the Pupillage Review, which is being chaired by Derek Wood QC and is seeking to improve...

Article: Pupillage offers not deferred

Offers of pupillage went ahead as scheduled on 2 August despite an earlier technical hitch.

Article: Pupillage open discussion

Members of the Bar Standards Board Pupillage Working Group held an open discussion with pupils on 13 July at Lincoln’s Inn, which focused on pupils’ experiences of Pupillage. Although few pupils were able to be present, a good discussion was held with...

Article: Pupillage Registration

All pupils must register their pupillage by completing our application forms. Pupils will be sent a confirmation email confirming registration of pupillage and outlining requirements in relation to the compulsory pupils courses. The pupillage file...

Article: Pupillage Registration

All pupils must register their pupillage by completing the 2011/2012 registration forms. They should ensure that all sections of the form are complete prior to submitting the form to the Bar Standards Board. Pupils will be sent a confirmation email...

Article: Review of CPD

A CPD Working Group, chaired by Derek Wood QC, has been setup to conduct a comprehensive review of the continuing education and professional development of practising barristers (in respect of both new practitioners and established practitioners)....

Article: Review of Pupillage - drinks reception

As part of the Review of Pupillage programme, Derek Wood QC has written to all pupils inviting them to talk about their pupillage experiences at a drinks reception. This event will take place on Monday, 13 July, at 5:30pm in Lincoln’s Inn. All p...

Article: Second six pupils

From 1 January 2010, second six pupils must have a practising certificate in order to exercise a right of audience. The Bar Standards Board has issued guidance on this matter to all pupils and pupil supervisors.

Article: Shortage of pupillages at the employed Bar

Regulations and a “lack of understanding” have led to a shortage of pupillages at the employed Bar.

Article: The future of legal education

Legal Education Solicitors and barristers are generating far too many graduate lawyers, according to the former Bar Chairman Nicholas Greene QC.

Article: The Pupillage forum needs you

The BSB has set up a private forum, on its website, for current pupillage students to discuss their pupillage experiences. This forum will run for the length of the Pupillage Review, which is being chaired by Derek Wood QC and is seeking to improve...

Article: The Pupillage forum needs you

The BSB has set up a private forum, on its website, for current pupillage students to discuss their pupillage experiences. This forum will run for the length of the Pupillage Review, which is being chaired by Derek Wood QC and is seeking to improve...

Article: The Review of CPD

Education and training for the Bar is a complex process which, first and foremost, needs to be approached in an holistic way. The different stages - academic, vocational and pupillage, not to mention further continued professional development (CPD)...