Young Bar Toolkit launches for junior barristers

Junior barristers are set to benefit from a new online toolkit which has been specifically for them by the Bar Council’s Young Barristers’ Committee.

The Young Bar Toolkit, available on the Young Bar Hub, provides practical information on starting out at the Bar, including on building a practice, working in chambers or as employed in-house counsel, the financial aspects of being self-employed and work-life balance. Alongside members of the Young Barristers’ Committee, other practising barristers, pupil supervisors, clerks and solicitors have also contributed advice to the toolkit.

Alistair MacDonald, chairman of the Bar, commented: "We are delighted to unveil the new Young Bar Toolkit and Young Bar Hub, which follows months of hard work by the Young Barristers’ Committee and fellow contributors within the legal sector. As a profession, we need to do more to support the Young Bar in a time of austerity and severe restrictions to access to justice, and we hope that this new toolkit and website will become a valuable resource for those in their early years of practice."