Pupillage

We offer up to 2 funded 12-month pupillages, which carry awards of a total value of £35,000. This includes a grant of £20,000 and £15,000 guaranteed earnings. £5,000 of the grant may be drawn down during the Bar Vocational Course.

Chambers ensures that pupils receive training in a range of work during pupillage. Pupils will usually be assigned to 3 different pupil supervisors during the course of their 12-month pupillage. The pupil will spend 3 months with their first and second pupil supervisor and 6 months with the third. They will experience as broad a range of Chambers' work as possible which is likely to include some or all of the following main practice areas of personal injury, employment law, health and safety, administrative law, insurance law, and costs.

During the first non-practising six months of pupillage, the pupil will spend the majority of their time going to court, sitting in on conferences and doing their pupil supervisor's paperwork which will include carrying out legal research, drafting pleadings, skeleton arguments and writing opinions. Pupils will also be given the opportunity to meet other member of chambers and attend court with more junior members of chambers in order to gain relevant experience before they start taking their own cases in the practicing second six months.

Pupils can expect their own busy court practice in their second six months. However, Chambers monitors the amount of work done in the pupil's second six to ensure that pupils are not out at court so often that they are unable to benefit from undertaking the work of their pupil supervisor.

Chambers' policy is to recruit only a small number of pupils (2) with the aim of recruiting tenants from them. Chambers has an excellent track record in this regard, having taken on 8 pupils (out of 11) over the last 5 years.