Pupillage Vacancy Information
At Kings Chambers we believe that our clients' interests are best served by strong dedicated teams in an uncompromising attitude to quality and client service. Kings Chambers is committed to providing clients with high quality specialist legal services through barristers with the highest reputation for advocacy, knowledge and professional standards. We are a large specialist set with a national and international reputation practising from Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. More information about our chambers can be found on our website..
We believe that regular, positive recruitment of exceptional candidates has been the key to our success. We are committed to continuing development in all areas of practice in chambers and the recruitment of ambitious and outstanding individuals who seek a successful career at the Bar. A pupillage at Kings Chambers provides the best possible foundation for a career at the bar.
Each pupil is assigned to 2 supervisors in the course of the year. Pupils spend the first six-month period of pupillage shadowing members of chambers whilst undertaking specialist learning and training and the second six taking on work in their own name. Supervisors provide frequent feedback and monitor their pupils progress to ensure that the work they are given fulfils their training needs. Pupils undergo a monthly assessment process with their supervisor and chambers Director of Pupillage Training.
We strive to make pupils feel a part of chambers from the time that they accept their offers of pupillage. They are invited to chambers events, both formal and informal, and encouraged to get to know both members and staff.
Pupillage will normally be based in Manchester
Our recruitment process and the remuneration package we offer are intended to ensure that we attract the best pupils in each year. We are wholeheartedly committed to the Bar Council’s Equality and Diversity Code.
Our application process is designed to ensure fairness and we are wholeheartedly committed to the Bar Council’s Equality and Diversity Code. All personal information is redacted from Pupillage application forms prior to being provided to the reviewing panel. We monitor diversity by anonymised forms in which applicants are requested (but not required) to complete alongside their application. These forms are kept separate from the application forms and are only used for monitoring purposes.
Aspiring barristers are invited to apply to chambers between 3 January 2024 and 7 February 2024 using the Pupillage Gateway application system to search for the relevant Pupillage Vacancy and selecting ‘Apply for this pupillage’.
We invite applications from those committed to a career at the bar with outstanding analytical ability, sound judgment, the potential to become excellent advocates and a capacity to establish and maintain good relationships with clients. We require a degree classification of a good 2:1 as a minimum, albeit we will consider extenuating circumstances.
Our selection criteria and more information about pupillage is published on our website, and we recommend considering these carefully when preparing your application.
We expect to conduct first round interviews on the 14th & 15th March 2024 and second interviews on the 18th & 19th April 2024.
We are recruiting for our Business and Property, Costs & Litigation Funding, and Personal Injury &Clinical Negligence departments. You may apply to one department only.
Business & Property Pupillage - commencing September 2024
We are recruiting for a Business & Property Pupil for each of 2024 & 2025 which as set out above, will normally be based in Manchester. Please only make one application for your preferred year but indicate in the answer to question 2 below if you would also be prepared and in a position to accept a pupillage in 2025.
The Business and Property Team at Kings Chambers is a large and successful team with members practising across all areas of business and property dispute resolution including commercial disputes, general chancery litigation, banking and finance, insolvency, property, professional negligence as well as private client, trusts, and probate. Our teams are top ranked in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories in all of the areas in which we practice.
Members are instructed in court advocacy, drafting and advisory work at all levels, most regularly in the relevant divisions of the High Court but also in arbitrations, mediations, and some international work.
The Business and Property Team welcome applications from candidates with an interest and enthusiasm for the areas of law which we cover but no prior experience or knowledge of these areas is required.
Application question(s)
- Pupillage will normally be based in Manchester. However, please indicate whether you would also be happy to undertake your pupillage in a different location, and if so where (Birmingham / Leeds). Word Limit: 100
- Why are you interested in Business and Property law? Word limit: 250
- What are the most important challenges facing the Bar and how should we prepare to address them? Word Limit 250
- Why do you believe you will make a good barrister? Word limit: 250
- Please read the judgment in Longley v PPB Entertainment Ltd [2022] EWHC 977 (QB) and argue that it was wrongly decided. Word limit: 500
