If you’re a law student considering a career at the Bar or you’re already studying the Bar course, chances are that you’re applying for pupillage in January 2023. For many of you, this might be the first time you’ll be applying for pupillage, and I thought it would be helpful to write some advice on how to approach the applications. Read on for my top tips!

The Bar Standards Board has announced that the minimum award for pupils, starting in September 2011, will go up to £12,000 per year.

With the Bar Standards Board having to delay BPTC exams until August, concerns have arisen as to whether students will qualify in time to start pupillage in the autumn.

The Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended until 11:00am on Monday 11 February, due to severe IT problems causing delays for many applicants trying to use the system.

The Pupillage Gateway has opened for browsing on 4 March.

The Bar Council is moving the timetable of the Pupillage Gateway application system so that it will open in January instead of April from now on, starting in January 2017.

The Bar Standards Board decided last week that despite software problems with the pupillage portal, which left a handful of applicants with incomplete applications, the date from which pupillages could be formally offered would not be deferred.

Middle Temple’s Pupillage Podcast has returned for a second season.

The number of pupillage positions on offer in 2022/23 hit a new record, exceeding pre-pandemic levels, according to the Bar Council’s new Pupillage Gateway report published last week. 

Beyond Compliance Limited and Clerksroom launched an anonymous survey last month, which aims to acquire details from prospective pupils regarding their experiences, and offer them the chance to share their thoughts on the training and qualifying processes at the Bar, as well as the current challenges surrounding pupillage. 

Pure Potential wants to increase applications to the best universities and graduate recruiters from students who have attended state schools and sixth form.

For those of us who want to work in a law firm, understanding the law is only half the battle. To truly excel at what you do, you need to understand the commercial world and business side of law firms.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has been granted an ABS licence by the SRA, the first of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms to receive one.

The Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates is unlawful and intended to undermine the fundamental principles of barristers' independence, the High Court has heard as the judicial review of QASA gets underway.

Queen’s Counsel Appointments has donated £200,000 to hardship funds to support struggling barristers and solicitors as the coronavirus crisis continues.

Following publication of the 2017 Judicial Diversity Statistics, the Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee, Robin Allen QC, has demanded there be greater action on judicial diversity.

More than 100 QCs have signed a petition requesting that the Garrick Club’s members, including a number of senior lawyers, vote for women to be admitted at its next general meeting on 7 December. The club is one of London’s last remaining gentleman’s clubs and has had a long association with the legal profession.