‘I’ve not met anyone who found the pupillage application process easy. Even the most brilliant candidates agonise over their applications and worry about how best to prepare for that curveball interview question. So, how do you maximise the chances of success? Even before that, how do you pick the right area of law?’
Counsel, September 2019
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘The bar regulator has delayed the introduction of compulsory written pupillage agreements which could tackle the “abusive” treatment of pupils.’
Law Society's Gazette, 16th September 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has delayed plans to require chambers to enter into written agreements with pupils, which were due to come into force in just two months’ time.’
Legal Futures, 13th September 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Requiring chambers to enter into written agreements with pupils may help to counter “shocking” instances of abusive treatment, the Bar Council has said.’
Legal Futures, 5th August 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘White students are significantly more likely to obtain pupillage than those from BAME backgrounds, with the gap widest among those who have not achieved the highest results, new figures have shown.’
Legal Futures, 4th July 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has a rejected a challenge to a decision by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) refusing to grant an exemption from the first non-practising stage of pupillage.’
Legal Futures, 23rd May 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Making written pupillage agreements compulsory could reduce the risk of pupil barristers being subjected to “inappropriate behaviour”, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said.
It signalled the move in an informal consultation that also proposes to make it compulsory for chambers and other training providers to bring their pupillage recruitment timetables into line with the Pupillage Gateway.’
Legal Futures, 9th May 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is writing to key stakeholders to ask whether it should be made mandatory for Chambers and other Authorised Education and Training Organisations (AETOs) providing the pupillage / work-based learning component of Bar training to bring their recruitment timetable into line with the Pupillage Gateway. Currently, the gateway timetable is between November and May. All pupillages must currently be advertised on the Gateway but the BSB believes that obliging all those offering pupillage to recruit to the same timetable would make recruitment fairer for all candidates.’
Bar Standards Board, 7th may 2019
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The first chambers to use a recruitment system which provides ‘contextual’ information to improve diversity is not “virtue signalling”, the head of its pupillage committee has said.’
Legal Futures, 27th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the new training regime for barristers that will open up four routes to qualification, including an apprenticeship.’
Legal Futures, 1st March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Oversight regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) proposals for changing the training regime for aspiring barristers, which includes reforms to pupillage but retains the roll of the Inns of Court.’
Law Society's Gazette, 28th February 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘New research published today presents the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB’s) review of the way in which pupillages were advertised in 2018 and in the selection criteria used by barristers’ chambers.’
Bar Standards Board, 21st January 2019
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Unpaid mini-pupillages could “indirectly discriminate” against would-be barristers from poorer backgrounds, a review by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has found.’
Legal Futures, 22nd January 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today launched a consultation seeking views on the charging model it proposes to introduce for organisations providing Bar training. These organisations are known as Authorised Education and Training Organisations (AETOs).’
Bar Standards Board, 6th December 2018
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is to assess the future of pupillage after the deadline for chambers to respond to a consultation on reforms passed on Sunday.’
Law Society's Gazette, 1st October 2018
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A barrister has been suspended for six months by a Bar disciplinary tribunal for acting as an advocate in the High Court before and during his pupillage.’
Legal Futures, 23rd August 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Following its recent consultation, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has agreed in principle how it should move forward with several further aspects of its review into the training and qualification of barristers.’
Bar Standards Board, 30th May 2018
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The link between ethnicity and success on the Bar professional training course and in attaining pupillage is more nuanced than the big gap between white and non-white candidates presented by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), the Bar Council has claimed.’
Legal Futures, 23rd April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is reviewing whether there are “unjustified and discriminatory barriers to pupillage” at the advertising and recruitment stage, Legal Futures can reveal.’
Legal Futures, 20th April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Following its recent consultation, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has agreed in principle how it should prescribe the future role of the Inns of Court in the training and qualification of barristers.’
Bar Standards Board, 23rd March 2018
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.
