Mini-Pupillage

Outer Temple Chambers offers two Mini-Pupillage courses each year.  We take up to twelve candidates at a time for a week of court visits, seminars and case research to provide an insight into life at the Bar.  Courses are held in June/July and in December each year.

 

Dates

Our next Mini-Pupillage Week is scheduled for the week commencing 13th December 2010, applications close 15th October 2010. 

Criteria

In selecting candidates for Mini-Pupillage we will take account the following criteria:

  • You must have completed at least one year of university education. This is because candidates will get more out of the course if they all have a minimum level of academic experience.
  • Academic achievement.
  • Skills relevant to a career at the Bar.
  • Evidence of motivation. We will want to know what motivates you to become a barrister and/or to practice in a particular area of work.
  • Chambers has an equal opportunities and diversity policy and is committed to supporting social mobility. Where appropriate we will offer Mini-Pupillage to candidates who might not otherwise be given the opportunity to undertake a Mini-Pupillage in chambers' doing similar kinds of work.

In circumstances where we cannot use our criteria to differentiate further between candidates and there are still unfilled places on a course we will select applications at random to fill the remaining places.

The criteria for Mini-Pupillage are not the same as for pupillage and none of our Mini-Pupillages will count towards any pupillage application.

 

How the week is organised

During the week you will have the chance to meet staff and barristers, attend court and conferences, get involved in discussions about casework, hear from pupils about starting out on a career at the Bar and find out about different areas of legal work.

Instead of visiting court you will have the option of undertaking some research on casework or working with a barrister on a particular case or project.

Days will normally start at around 9.30am at court or in Chambers.  You will come back to Outer Temple at the end of the afternoon to attend seminars by practitioners.  You should expect to be in chambers until 7.30pm most evenings.

 

The application form

You can download the following documents:

  • Application form. This can be completed and returned on line or printed out and completed in black ink.
  • Equal Opportunities Statement. This is for information. We expect all successful Mini-Pupils to support our equality and diversity policy and we invite all candidates to complete the monitoring form which allows us to check that our courses are representative.
  • Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. This document should be returned with your application form.

 

Not able to attend Mini-Pupillage yet?

If you have not yet completed your first year of university education and you want to see barristers in action, the best way is probably to watch some trials. Most trials, whether criminal (go to a Crown court or the Old Bailey) or civil (go to a County court or the Royal Courts of Justice) are open to the public.