The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) has applied to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to be authorised to deliver a new version of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) from autumn 2020. If approved, the course will be unique in that it will be run as a not-for-profit venture. Speaking to Lawyer 2B, course director […]
The average fee for the Bar Professional Qualification Course (BPTC) has passed £16,000 for the first time. The figure now stands at £16,239 after five of the eight providers of the course raised their prices for 2019/20. The average price is £348 higher than last year. BPP, which runs the BPTC in London, Birmingham, Bristol […]
Exchange Chambers is set to double its number of pupil barristers from 2020. The set, which works out of Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, currently takes three pupils a year, but has committed to increase that number to at least six, and potentially up to eight. Its pupillage award will remain at £25,000. The set is […]
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced the new minimum award for pupil barristers. The new award will apply from 1 September 2019 will be £18,436 per year for pupillages in London and £15,728 outside the capital. Previously, the minimum a chambers could pay its pupils was £12,000, a figure which had been static since 2011. but […]
By my third year of pupillage applications I was becoming disillusioned with the process. Since being called to the Bar I had been working as a self-employed advocate for LPC – in court on a daily basis “cutting my teeth” with advocacy. I knew my pupillage application was strong, but needed to stay motivated. I […]
Nursing and Midwifery Council barrister Matthew Cassells recalls a very different training experience from pupils in chambers.
Study finds that black and minority ethnic pupillage seekers were far less likely to be successful than their white counterparts, even when they had the same academic grades.
To some the traditions of the Bar, such as dining in hall, are sacrosanct. To others, they are simply a barrier. Now, as the profession’s regulator consults over proposals on the future role of the Inns of Court in preparing entrants for life at the Bar, the eating of dinners in an ancient hall as […]
While it is true that the Bar does need to do more to tackle homophobic attitudes there is clearly an appetite for change, write Marc Mason and Dr Steven Vaughan.
About to start pupillage? Don’t panic! Henderson Chambers’ Rachel Tandy offers some advice to help you hit the ground running.
Firms says the decision was made in part to encourage a revival of in-house pupillages, which have been dying out.
Reform of the Bar Professional Training Course seems likely as the BSB says the idea of splitting it into two has “strong support from the profession.”
More than 500 barristers have signed an open letter to the chairman of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) expressing their “disappointment” at the contents of its consultation on how barristers should be trained. Former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Woolf is one of the signatories, as are top silk Laurence Rabinowitz QC […]
The Bar Council has dismissed plans to reform legal education for barristers put forward by the Bar Standards Board, saying its own idea is the only suitable way forward.
‘Bar Entrance Exam’ among the new training proposals but not ‘favoured option’, with ‘barrister apprenticeships’ also floated.
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