by Simon Myerson QC | Jan 13, 2019 | This Blog
Welcome, And welcome back. I last wrote properly about pupillage in 2016. Since then, the site has been used to tell you how rubbish I think the MoJ is (and I do), and how we ought to work to rule rather than go on strike (and I do). But it hasn’t said anything...
by Simon Myerson QC | Jan 11, 2017 | Routes to the Bar
Inspired by @MTStudents’ event last night, for the first time in ages I want to write about pupillage and how to get it. For those who missed it, the ‘speed dating’ event allowed you up to 8 visits to barristers, each lasting 10 minutes. Each visit allowed you...
by Simon Myerson QC | Feb 18, 2016 | Life at the Bar, Recommended Reading
Apologies for the clickbait title, but anyone taking an exam (BPTC or Recorder) may well be asked about joint enterprise, now that Lord N has agreed that the law has taken a wrong turn. The correction manoeuvre has only taken 31 years, which for the UK is equivalent...
by Simon Myerson QC | Mar 16, 2011 | Routes to the Bar
The Portal is about to open and already the air is filled with the almost soundless susurration of steadily sharpening quills. I thought it might help to go through the standard questions on the form. Most Chambers do not say what they are looking for in anything like...
by Simon Myerson QC | Mar 3, 2011 | Interviews
Thanks to my snout I am now in a position to give an inside view of an Inn Scholarship interview. The interpolations are mine. I arrived at the Inn very early for my interview [a good idea]. It was with the intention of doing some last minute reading and demonstrating...
