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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.
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 Bar Standards Board has announced that the minimum award for pupils, starting in September 2011, will go up to £12,000 per year.
Pupillage is the final stage of training to be a barrister.
Samuel Linehan, a criminal law pupil, has won £4,000 in the Bar Council’s Law Reform essay competition with his submission, “Putting the wheels back on: a better approach to compensation for miscarriages of justice”.
The minimum award for pupil barristers is set to increase from 1 January 2020, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced.
The pupil barristers’ minimum salary will increase from September 2019, with some pupils set for a 50% pay rise when the regulation comes into effect.
A pupil barrister and a trainee solicitor have launched a scheme that will accredit law students to provide advice at law centres
Louis Triggs discusses why the Bar’s emphasis on advocacy, intellectual challenge and independence drew him to a career in tax law. He shares his advice for aspiring barristers, reflects on securing pupillage through practice and problem-solving, and offers an insight into the varied, intellectually demanding work of a junior tax barrister.
Gabriel Barton-Singer is a barrister at 4 Pump Court Chambers. Read his advice on how to benefit from mini-pupillages, the type of work he gets involved in and how he successfully balances his time in this Meet the Lawyer interview.
The public now have the chance to choose their favourite ideas from the British Library’s Magna Carta: My Digital Rights project, which marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the 25th anniversary of the web by asking young people to think about how the issues of freedom and control associated with Magna Carta apply to the digital age.
More than half of the public are in favour of virtual trials to reduce the number of unheard court cases, according to a survey conducted by Crest Advisory.
Both the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Government Legal Profession (GLP) offer pupillages leading to permanent roles with fixed salaries, holiday and sickness pay, pensions and all the usual employment protection rights.
