by Simon Myerson QC | Mar 22, 2009 | Interviews, Life at the Bar, Qualities Required, Routes to the Bar
Remember the need for integrity? Well, according to Oxbridge Training Contracts you can pay someone to write your application, fill in your form and answer your interview questions for you. This will cost you anything up to £2,000. Never mind the people prepared to...
by Simon Myerson QC | Mar 1, 2009 | Qualities Required, Tenancy
Chambers have, in recent times, invested quite a lot of effort in pupillage selection. I think it can be fairly said that most Chambers are now committed to diversity in terms of sex, colour, race and creed (the Bar, strangely enough, was never particularly fussed...
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....
