Barristers (Training)

Question 1

How can you get ‘entry to the bar?’

Answer 1

Normally degree-based though there is a non-degree route for mature entrants, under which a small number of students qualify

Question 2

What do all student barristers have to pass?

Answer 2

the bar professional training course

Question 3

What do students study on the bar professional training course?

Answer 3

Case preparation
Legal research 
Written skills
Opinion writing 
Drafting document
Conference skills
Negotiation 
Advocacy

Question 4

What must all student barristers join?

Answer 4

One of the four inns of court and have to dine there 12 times before being called to the bar. They can attend in a weekend residential course

Question 5

How does the weekend residential course help students?

Answer 5

They meet senior barristers and judges and learn the traditions of the profession.

Question 6

What happens once a student has passed the bar professional training course?

Answer 6

Student is then ‘called to the bar’ - this means that they are officially qualified as a barrister. However there’s still a practical stage to their training which must be completed. This is called the ‘pupilage’