Pupillage Vacancy Information
We offer a pupillage award of up to £75,000 (of which £24,000 may be drawn down during the year immediately preceding your pupillage). We also cover the costs of all compulsory courses our pupils are required to undertake during the course of their pupillage.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
We assess candidates solely on merit, regardless of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality, citizenship, sex, gender re-assignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, religion or belief, or pregnancy and maternity.
As regards disability, we will make reasonable adjustments to the application process for disabled applicants, and to facilitate pupillage and/or practice as a tenant in the event of a successful application. Please do not hesitate to contact us, at pupillage@falcon-chambers.com, at any time prior to or during the application process, should you wish to discuss reasonable adjustments.
All members of the Recruitment Committee have received training in fair recruitment.
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. Why do you want to become a barrister specialising in property disputes? (Character limit 1200)
2.Of the skills required for a career at the Bar, which do you think are your strongest and why? (Character limit 1200)
3.Please provide a breakdown of your results from all of your university examinations or courses undertaken (where available).
4.If you have applied to Falcon Chambers for a pupillage in any previous years, please tell us if anything has changed since your last application
5. Please present an argument, in no more than 500 words, in support of the proposition that the UK Government should legislate to prevent individuals from using social media anonymously.
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
We aim to offer up to two 12-month pupillages each year to candidates who display high intellectual ability, good communication skills and an interest in property-related work.
Pupils in Chambers are expected to demonstrate strong analytical and communication skills and also an ability to work well with others. We welcome applications from anyone who is able to demonstrate the skills we are looking for, irrespective of the school or university they attended and irrespective of their gender, race, age or sexual orientation, in line with Chambers' commitment to furthering equality and diversity at the Bar.
Few of our applicants will have studied our speciality in any depth, and therefore we arrange an intensive course in Chambers to be given by a leader in the field, currently Dr. Martin Dixon of Queens College, Cambridge. This is usually held in the last week of September. We also aim to give our pupils a good grounding in advocacy, in addition to the courses offered by the Inns, by providing structured advocacy training.
You will be allocated to a different Pupil Supervisor every three months of your pupillage, in order to ensure that you are seen by as many people as possible. As a pupil, you will be expected to read papers before conferences and briefs before court, to write opinions and draft statements of case as if they were your own, and to attend court with members of chambers.
In your second six months, once we are satisfied that you are sufficiently experienced, our clerks will allocate work to you. There is usually a reasonable amount of court work available.
We place a lot of importance on being a friendly, closely integrated group of colleagues, and meet for tea, and on Fridays for lunch in our library. As a pupil in chambers, you will be welcomed to these gatherings.
Any Other Relevant Information
We aim to decide whether to offer you a tenancy in Chambers as soon as possible after the first three seats of your pupillage. In recent years, most of our pupils have become tenants in Chambers. If we are not able to offer you a tenancy in Chambers, we have an excellent record of assisting our pupils to find third six pupillages or tenancies elsewhere.
