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A Pupillage Committee, set up by the Council of the Inns of Court (COIC), and chaired by David Blunt QC, has expressed concerns that the falling number of pupillages on offer is damaging to the Bar on a number of counts, including its drive to dispel its image as a profession which is only open to an elite drawn from wealthy backgrounds. Whilst recognising the pressures on chambers and the views of some that the number of pupillages should exactly equate with the number of tenancies likely to be on offer, the BSB shares these concerns. There is certainly a need to try and alleviate, somehow or other, the plight of the young who, though called to the Bar, cannot obtain pupillage.
The COIC Committee is considering the feasibility of various proposals as to how to increase the number of pupillages at both the self-employed and employed Bar, but is not suggesting the abolition of the minimum funding requirement or trying to pressure chambers into offering more tenancies.
COIC will be releasing a survey for members of chambers to feed into the review. For more information about the survey please contact: Fiona Fulton ffulton@innertemple.org.uk
The COIC Committee is considering the feasibility of various proposals as to how to increase the number of pupillages at both the self-employed and employed Bar, but is not suggesting the abolition of the minimum funding requirement or trying to pressure chambers into offering more tenancies.
COIC will be releasing a survey for members of chambers to feed into the review. For more information about the survey please contact: Fiona Fulton ffulton@innertemple.org.uk
A Pupillage Committee, set up by the Council of the Inns of Court (COIC), and chaired by David Blunt QC, has expressed concerns that the falling number of pupillages on offer is damaging to the Bar on a number of counts, including its drive to dispel its image as a profession which is only open to an elite drawn from wealthy backgrounds. Whilst recognising the pressures on chambers and the views of some that the number of pupillages should exactly equate with the number of tenancies likely to be on offer, the BSB shares these concerns. There is certainly a need to try and alleviate, somehow or other, the plight of the young who, though called to the Bar, cannot obtain pupillage.
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