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Barristers’ views are being sought on everything to do with third-six pupillages, including a 10-point list of good practice and whether a name change should be explored.
‘A third sixer is in a vulnerable position and at risk of being exploited,’ wrote Rupert Jones, a member of the Bar Council’s Third Six Pupillages Working Group, on BarTalk. Should this area be regulated? Should there be guaranteed earnings? Have you experienced third-sixers being exploited?
Please email Alex Cisneros with your views: acisneros@barcouncil.org.uk or visit: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X3TFTMM. See also ‘The third-six pupillage phenomenon’, Counsel, March 2016.
Barristers’ views are being sought on everything to do with third-six pupillages, including a 10-point list of good practice and whether a name change should be explored.
‘A third sixer is in a vulnerable position and at risk of being exploited,’ wrote Rupert Jones, a member of the Bar Council’s Third Six Pupillages Working Group, on BarTalk. Should this area be regulated? Should there be guaranteed earnings? Have you experienced third-sixers being exploited?
Please email Alex Cisneros with your views: acisneros@barcouncil.org.uk or visit: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X3TFTMM. See also ‘The third-six pupillage phenomenon’, Counsel, March 2016.
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