Legal Education Foundation plans new pupillage scholarships to create social welfare law barristers
updated on 25 September 2014
Following the Legal Education Foundation's (LEF) announcement of funding for seven new social welfare law training contracts earlier this month, the charity has also revealed its intention to extend the scheme to the Bar Professional Training Course graduates.
As reported by Legal Cheek, the LEF’s chief executive, Matthew Smerdon, has already begun talks with the Bar Council, the Bar Pro Bono Unit and the Inns of Court’s Advocacy Training Council. Smerdon revealed that the LEF hopes to launch several pupillage scholarships by mid 2015. The LEF is also working with the Inns of Court to ensure that any new scholarships do not clash with those already in place at the Bar.
Smerdon said: "We in early discussions with people at the Bar to design a programme to attract young, bright, committed people who want to go into social welfare and public law, but are finding it difficult to get a pupillage."
