Pupillage Vacancy Information
Chambers’ extensive range of specialist counsel are consistently ranked and recognised as leaders across Crime, Inquests & Public Inquiries, Professional Discipline, Regulatory, Family and Civil Law, amongst others.
Our Clerking, Finance and Support team are regularly commended for the service they provide and their commitment to quality; which is echoed across the entire Chambers family. Importantly, we recognise and embrace our societal responsibility to be a force for good; in the community, across Circuit and at The Bar.
We are offering a pupillage to begin in September 2026 to two outstanding candidates. The pupillages will guarantee a comprehensive well supported common law education. One pupillage will be located in Newcastle and one pupillage is offered for Leeds. All pupillages will include an introduction and grounding in serious crime, regulatory enforcement and family law. Please indicate your location preference on your application form.
We take our Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) responsibilities incredibly seriously. We are delighted to be one of a small group, if not the first and only, Chambers to be certified as a Carbon Negative organisation.
We also acknowledge that we have a role to play in exposing future potential barristers to the inner workings of a set of Chambers; which we do through our new University Outreach Programme as well as via our people who voluntarily lecture and mentor at Universities and beyond.
Closer to home, safeguarding, supporting and inspiring our entire Chambers family to be the best that they can be is very important to all of us. From internal mentoring schemes to our Employee Assistance Programme (which provides 24 hour welfare support) as well as a regular drum beat of social activities and a clear commitment to regular transparent communication to all, we want you to be your authentic self, aim high and flourish with us.
Pupils are guaranteed a minimum of £32,000 for their 12 month Pupillage.
Here at New Park Court Chambers we are wholly committed to making the world a better place.
We are well represented on our Circuit Diversity Committee and are leading our peers on a number of initiatives aimed at removing bias, unconscious or otherwise, from how the industry manages recruitment and the fair allocation of work. We are proud supporters and participants of 10,000 Black Interns, we have a committed core of LGBTQ+ Activists and Allies and are prominent in supporting, enabling and promoting those from the lower end of the socio-economic pyramid to reach their potential.
We are incredibly proud of Jason Pitter KC, our Deputy Head of Chambers Leeds, who became the first ever black Circuit Leader when he took the post in January 2023.
We are also proud of our culture and ethos of ensuring that we are a welcoming, collegiate and safe environment for all. Which is reinforced through our partnership with The Diversity Trust.
Our CEO, Rob Wagg, is our Accessibility Officer.
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