Plume
Calling all BPTC students! Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to find and obtain the elusive pupillage placement. WARNING! This mission may be hazardous to your health... After completing an English Literature degree and the GDL, I am about to begin the BPTC at Northumbria University. Read on to discover whether I will live to tell the tale and (fingers crossed!) emerge as a prospective pupil.
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With the end of the course fast approaching, my thoughts are beginning to turn to future plans and what I am now calling 'life after the BPTC'.
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Last week, I completed a marshalling placement at my local Crown Court.
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that we all develop different ways to cope with the stresses of revision time.
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It's official- revision can definitely send you crazy.
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As if exam preparation wasn't enough, it’s also that time of year when all aspiring barristers must turn their attention to the pupillage portal.
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With exams fast approaching, once again the library has become my home from home.
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With an ethics mock exam looming, and the fear beginning to set in, I thought I would use the spare(!) time that I have to ask some of the questions I have been longing to have answered this term.
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Last week I was lucky enough to go to India for a mooting competition in Delhi.
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Bah humbug. Or at least, that is definitely the Christmas sentiment I'm embracing with a permanent crick in my neck and a stoop to my shoulders, after hours hunched over, working for the first round of BPTC exams.
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Despite the current pressures of the course and looming exams, I have committed quite a bit of time preparing for and competing in mooting competitions. Glutton for punishment or time well spent?
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The long awaited landmark of reading week has finally arrived.
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It’s always a good idea to know who’s who, what's currently going on at the chambers and any important cases that they’ve been involved in recently. You never know what you’re going to get asked or who you’re going to be with so make sure you’re up to date before you go!
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Where would we be without the wisdom of friends?
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In an enthusiastic attempt to get involved with as much as I can this year and brush up on my advocacy skills, I recently volunteered to take part in a training weekend.
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Ever heard the phrase 'enough is as good as feast but too much is worse than none at all'?
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