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Interdisciplinary training
between trainee social workers, GPs and barristers. Aine’s slides are embedded below. During 2007-08 the Institute of Professional Legal Studies organised joint training with the Schools of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Medicine at Queen’s. In 2008-0…
Learning law in Northern Ireland
into the two branches of solicitors and barristers. The Law Society of Northern Ireland is the governing body for solicitors, while the General Council of the Bar plays the same role for barristers. As in the rest of the UK qualifying as a lawyer in Northern Ireland consists o…
Bar Professional Training Course
course for law graduates intending to become barristers. The purpose of the BPTC is to ensure that aspiring barristers acquire the skills and knowledge needed for the more specialised training of pupillage. The course may be taken either full or part time – for further…
Learning law in England and Wales
into the two branches of solicitors and barristers. The Law Society is the representative body for solicitors, while legal education (as well as regulatory and disciplinary matters) is dealt with by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Bar Council represents the interests of…
Procedure in the magistrates court
solicitors are called ‘My Friend’ and barristers ‘My Learned Friend’. Conventions are not legal requirements, but a failure to follow them can make life difficult and can rebound on the client, in the sense that the court may be displeased. This displeasu…
General transferable skills: University of Essex
sent out to solicitors’ practices and barristers’ chambers into court. They receive lectures from members of all branches of the legal profession which give accounts of their day to day lives. The course is assessed by an advocacy exercise, for which training is…
The good, the bad and the ugly
workloads, resources, working with solicitors and barristers, interactions with clients and their families, and the support available to innocence projects. …
Legal Wales: annual symposium 2007
associations representing practising solicitors and barristers as well as academic lawyers in Wales. Legal Wales’ annual symposium in September 2007 was the first since the coming into force of the Government of Wales Act 2006. The keynote address was given by Carwyn Jon…
About the magistrates court
do. District judges must be experienced barristers or solicitors. Magistrates come from many different backgrounds. If you are interested in becoming a magistrate contact your local court for further details. Applications are particularly welcome from members of the ethnic min…
Glossary of terms
‘called’ as a barrister by an Inn of Court. Barristers normally specialise in court work, especially in the higher courts. Bench collective term used to describe the magistrates or judges in a case; also refers to the table behind which magistrates and judges sit …
General transferable skills: City Law School
ultimately go on to private practice as barristers, and therefore the course has always had to bear in mind the need to prepare students for a wider working environment. Our course is postgraduate and has a specific professional focus. We would not expect undergraduate course…
Legal education in Northern Ireland
between trainee social workers, GPs and barristers at Queen’s University Belfast (2009) Exploring the link between advocacy and actor training – paper on the potential of actor training techniques to help teach advocacy skills, with examples from Queen’s Univ…
Reflective diaries on the Bar Vocational Course
it encourages students to appreciate that barristers do not operate in isolation and that their actions have consequences for the other party involved. Is aided by a staggered approach – reflection seems to work particularly well where there are a number of self…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
delivering vocational training for would-be barristers came to an end in 1997, and from 2002, the Bar Vocational Course (BVC) has been delivered by a total of eight ‘providers’. The overall purpose of the BVC is to ensure that students intending to become barristers acquire …
Postgraduate to professional: creativity and opinion writing skills
reasons for their wanting to qualify as a barristers, but if they are not excited by law itself they cannot expect to get very far. Yet their very love of the law may well give rise to its own problems. Overly creative students are at risk of distorting and even manipulating fac…
Perspectives on professional formation: apprenticeship, pupillage and the assessed year in employment
overall training programme for both trainee barristers and trainee solicitors, who study together. The course is followed by a period of in practice training, working in a professional setting under supervision. Bar graduates undertake a period of pupillage in the Bar Library wh…
JustCite: exploiting legal metadata
information resource for practising solicitors and barristers, but also as a legal research tool for students and academics (the service is available free of charge to members of UK and Irish academic institutions). In an academic environment it is possible to integrate JustCi…
The essential synergy between assessment and learning in skills-based legal practice courses
students wishing to practise as solicitors or barristers in Hong Kong. The main pedagogical objective is to prepare students for entry into the traineeship (solicitors) or pupilage (barristers) stage of professional legal qualification. It follows the usual form of being the bri…
New lawyers - new horizons? What kind of lawyers do we need?
higher rights of audience and the 12,000 barristers. This remains a powerful group, including the whole of the Bar, if a relatively marginal number of solicitors. We might take slightly more licence and have Atticus stand for domestic lawyers funded by legal aid. If so, we mi…
Mooting for learning
by those seeking to become solicitors or barristers), but in fact it is often criticised for being simply unrealistic (Kozinski 1997). Such criticisms may have some validity, because a moot is structured in a way that no appellate case in real life ever is (Gillespie 2007). Howe…
Whose 'version' of the facts? Working on the margins of outsiders' stories and lawyers' theories of the case
system, such as police officers, solicitors, barristers and caseworkers from the Crown Prosecution Service. Amongst both groups we have a mixture of UK and international students. Included within the module is a series of seminars looking at persuasion as a central function of…
Designing a curriculum for criminal justice
criminal justice exceeds that employed as barristers and solicitors. This group, which consists of a wide range of professionals (police officers, prison officers, probation officers, court clerks, administrative staff in courts, prisons, and police stations, civil servan…
Practice makes perfect: use of practitioner led mooting to develop and enhanced student centred learning experience
practitioners, in the form of solicitors, barristers and judges. Practitioners can bring something extra to the mooting party in all of the following respects. Reasons to involve practitioners in mooting Practitioners, particularly those who are recently qualified, set a be…
Law degrees in England and Wales
stage of legal education for solicitors or barristers. BPP Law School and the College of Law have obtained degree awarding powers – BPP offers three undergraduate degrees, while the College of Law awards a degree level qualification to students who successfully complete …
From pupil to professional: is pupillage fit for purpose?
some potential applicants from training as barristers. This is very difficult to determine, and accurate statistical information is unlikely to be obtainable. Anecdotal evidence from university lecturers and careers officers may well be informative in this area. Training and s…
The future of the legal profession and learning: a view from practice
contemporaries at law school there are now two barristers, one in-house solicitor specialising in rail and hotels financing, an immigration lawyer, a corporate finance partner in a City firm, a sole practitioner specialising in criminal and family law, a civil litigator in…
Innocence projects: a perfect solution for clinical legal education?
the possibility of supervising criminal barristers being available from a central source. In a world of competing demands on scarce resources, where there are so many other pressures on academic and vocational teachers, we hope this package is something that will appeal, and t…
Back to the future - not rocket science: some thoughts on 20 years of consultations on the future of the BVC and pupillage
Vice President of the Association of Women Barristers (AWB) and Vice Chairman of the International Bar Association Academic and Professional Development Committee. An earlier version of this paper was debated at the Society of Legal Scholars’ 2006 annual conference –…
Holistic legal education? Integrating the academic and vocational stage
stage of legal education for solicitors or barristers, and students who successfully complete the degree can go straight into a training contract or pupillage. The degree is currently the only one of its kind in England and Wales. How it operates Educational philosophy The…
Introducing quizzes and discussion boards on the Bar Vocational Course
wrote for The Lawyer on the use of IT by barristers. In 2003 the City Law School, based in the Institute of Law at City University, decided to introduce e-learning onto the Bar Vocational Course (BVC). Prior to then the course had been delivered in three different ways; large…
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