Simon’s blog
Interview Advice
We have said quite a lot about interviews already. But it is always helpful to see advice from elsewhere. Jane Furniss has quite a lot of experience in the world of interviews and appointments. With her permission, for which we are grateful, we publish her take on how...
FRU Experience
Mini-pupillages are important. You know this already. Every so often, something comes up, which is a mini-pupillage plus. This is one such opportunity. It is paid. It is working with great people. It will directly help you get pupillage. It is well worth doing. FRU...
Please Don’t be Misled
Part of our raison d'être is to provide you with accurate information. That includes warning you off information that is inaccurate. This post at All About Law is inaccurate. I'd not trouble with it if, it wasn't a big website, promising "information on absolutely...
Here We Go Again
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 about...
Filling In the Form
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 to ask...
This May Help You Pass
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...
Help
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...
Inn Scholarships – Updated
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...
Diversity
Counsel Magazine has an interesting article by Andrew Neish QC, dealing with the lack of diversity at the so called 'magic-circle' sets. I'd like to link to it but Lexis-Nexis thinks I should pay to do so and, as I get my paper copy anyway, I won't. If you or your...
What Type of Law Should I Do (Part VI – an Xmas Special)
Ecclesiastical Law I feel slightly fraudulent doing this, because my sort of ecclesiastical law is practised in the London Beth Din (a recognised Tribunal under the Arbitration Acts) and differs from the Court of Appeal in only a few ways. Firstly, beards are not...