by Simon Myerson QC | Jan 7, 2009 | Humour, Life at the Bar, Tenancy
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted for a while. I hope to do so soon. Meanwhile, please familiarise yourself with the diagram below. It is uncannily accurate. Because your clerks will collect your fees, the issue of when to bill is a matter for them. However,...
by Simon Myerson QC | Dec 12, 2008 | Qualities Required, Tenancy
So, there you are, in situ (or – as we must now say – with your feet under the table). The question is how you get to put your feet on the table. I dealt with advocacy in the last post. There is another aspect to a Barrister’s life in which ability...
by Simon Myerson QC | Dec 7, 2008 | Qualities Required, Tenancy
This is a partial answer to how you communicate your abilities during your pupillage. It also, I hope, goes some way to address the fears of the BVC students that their advocacy is ‘a trainwreck’ (a direct quote – and whoever originated that...
by Simon Myerson QC | Dec 4, 2008 | Qualities Required, Tenancy
I concede that I embark on this post with a degree of trepidation. I pretend to no great expertise on how one converts a pupillage into a tenancy. It has happened to me twice: at the end of my pupillage in London, when I suspect the motive was the future payment of...
by Simon Myerson QC | Nov 13, 2008 | Interviews, Qualities Required
V I do accept that the size of the photographs may tell their own story, but in the spirit of investigative journalism I am sure Mr Paul Dacre (in the left corner – the mere thought of which is probably giving him collywobbles) will appreciate the discrepancy....
by Simon Myerson QC | Nov 4, 2008 | Life at the Bar, Qualities Required
As the question of Olpas rears its ugly head again, I thought I would try and inject some reality into the perennial ‘do I have to have an Oxbridge degree?’ debate. The Answer is ‘No – but it helps’. I can say this with some confidence...
by Simon Myerson QC | Sep 1, 2008 | Life at the Bar
One of the things about having a search function is that it reveals what you haven’t written about, as well as what you have. I was surprised to find that I hadn’t covered this topic and I thought it might be useful if I did. I know that you all want to be...
by Simon Myerson QC | Aug 29, 2008 | Humour
As a special celebration of the new pad… Environmental Law When Megabastard plc pumps raw sewage into the village pond, when Exploitthethirdworld SA decides that India’s legal system isn’t up to preventing it from pumping out dioxin as if it were...
by Simon Myerson QC | Aug 24, 2008 | No Pupillage, The BPTC
I have the permission of the author of the question below to post my answer: “Been reading your blog for quite some months now. However, unless I’m mistaken, there is something of an omission from the listings – what should you be feeling if you fail...
by Simon Myerson QC | Aug 14, 2008 | No Pupillage, Qualities Required
Pupillages and tenancies are being hurled around like confetti for those lucky few – to whom we (all of us being nice enough to rejoice in the joys of others) extend our congratulations: and the Bar is drawing its feelers in for the unlucky many. These are...
