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Pupillage Vacancy Information
Please apply through our 2025 vacancy - barcouncil/TP/2450/559
https://recruitment.pupillagegateway.com/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=559
About Authorised Education and Training Organisation
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.
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.
Structure of Pupillage
Our pupils spend 12 months working with leaders in their chosen field on cases, in a warm and supportive environment. There is a tenancy available for every pupil that we are satisfied meets our standard of excellence at the end of their pupillage.
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.
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
Financial and Other Support Available
The pupillage award for those commencing pupillage in 2024 will be £45,000. Up to £25,000 of this award is available to be drawn down in the BPTC year. In addition, we guarantee the income of pupils in their second six months up to £25,000. So, our pupil's guaranteed income in pupillage is £70,000.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
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.
How to Apply
Please apply for this vacancy through our 2025 vacancy - https://recruitment.pupillagegateway.com/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=559
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 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.
Costs Litigation & Funding Pupillage
We are seeking a pupil for our costs and Litigation Funding team to start in either 2024 or 2025, to be based in Manchester.
The Costs and Litigation Funding Team at Kings Chambers is the only specialist costs team outside of London to be ranked in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories. Areas covered include costs disputes in clinical negligence and serious injury claims as well as a variety of high value claims in the Chancery Division and the Admiralty, Commercial, Technology and Construction and Business and Property Courts. The Costs and Litigation Funding Team would especially welcome applications from candidates with an existing understanding of this area of law and the successful applicant will likely have work experience in the field of Legal Costs or will be able to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to specialising at the Bar in the field of Costs and Litigation Funding.
To apply, please click on the Apply Online link below and then complete the online application form.
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 words
- Are you applying to start in 2024, 2025, or either? Word limit – 5.
- Why are you interested in Costs and Litigation Funding? 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 Gibbs v King’s College NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC B24 (Costs) and argue that it was wrongly decided. Word Limit: 500
