Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Chambers is committed to the Equality and Diversity Code for the Bar and encourages applications from groups which are under-represented in chambers. Chambers will make reasonable adjustments for disabled candidates.
12 King’s Bench Walk is proud to use the Rare Contextual Recruitment System (CRS). The CRS allows us to understand each pupillage applicant’s achievements in the context that they have been gained. We understand that not every candidate’s achievements look the same on paper. Through our use of Rare we aim to recruit the best people, from every background.
How to Apply
Aspiring barristers are invited to apply to chambers between Wednesday 4 January 2023 and Wednesday 8 February 2023 using the Pupillage Gateway application system to search for the relevant Pupillage Vacancy and selecting ‘Apply for this pupillage’.
In addition to the standardised Bar Council questionnaire, candidates will be asked to respond to the following questions from Chambers:
1.If you could have appeared as counsel in one case in the past few years, which one would it have been and why? (Maximum characters 1200)
2.What do you see as the challenges facing the Young Bar practising in personal injury over the immediate to short term future? (Maximum characters 1200)
3.Why do you believe you will make a good barrister? In your answer, please identify any relevant experiences or skills that you believe may help you in your career (Maximum characters 1200)
4.Why do you want to join our chambers? In your answer, please give reasons for your choice of chambers and explain why you are interested in our areas of practice (Maximum characters 1200)
5.What, in your view, has been the most significant legal decision in one of chambers’ core areas of practice in the last 12 months. Why? (Maximum characters 1200)
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
12 King's Bench Walk, known as 12KBW, is a long-established premium civil set of chambers with 93 tenants, including 14 silks. We have this year unanimously been voted Personal Injury Set of Year by the two leading legal directories and could fairly be described as the leading personal injury set in the country.
We have for many years been highly ranked in the legal directories across a range of practice areas. We have won numerous awards including Chamber's Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Set of the Year 2018, and Personal Injury Set of the Year 2019, 2021 and 2022 and the Legal 500 Personal Injury Chambers of the Year 2022. Our core areas of practice also include industrial disease, international & travel, motor insurance and employment law. Pupils can expect to gain a broad experience of work including in professional negligence, inquests, costs litigation and insurance claims. Our barristers deal with all levels of work up to and including the Supreme Court and Court of Justice of the European Union.
Our barristers come from a range of backgrounds and we are proud of our record of recruitment based purely on merit.
We offer up to three 12-month pupillages. Chambers pupillage award is £55,000 (£27,500 grant and £27,500 guaranteed earnings/£10,000 of the grant may be drawn down during the Bar vocation course/BPTC year).
Second six pupils (and junior tenants) can expect a busy and varied workload with plenty of court work. We aim to offer tenancy to all our pupils. Mini-pupillages are available. See our website.
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