Pupillage Vacancy Information
Pupils receive their pupillage award in addition to any earnings received in their second six. Travel and other expenses (for example associated with mandatory training) are met by Chambers during the 12 month period.
We give pupils the option of drawing down a portion of the first-six award to assist with training expenses prior to the start of pupillage.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
QEB is passionate about diversity. We are a Chambers which celebrates and supports difference. We welcome applications from all genders, backgrounds and communities and encourage applications from disabled people and those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds as these groups are currently under-represented at the Bar.
Chambers’ recruitment policy is based on aptitude and intellectual abilities regardless of personal characteristics or background. Recruitment is subject to the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy and Quality Assurance Statement which is reviewed regularly to ensure that it continues to deliver for our candidates. We believe in equal opportunities for all and aim to eradicate any discriminatory practices, including subconscious bias, from our recruitment process and more generally within Chambers.
Further information is on QEB’s website at:
https://www.qeb.co.uk/about/diversity/
https://www.qeb.co.uk/pupillage/
Our Pupillage and Equal Opportunities policies are set out in the link below
https://www.qeb.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/18.-ANNEX-H-Pupillage-Equal-Ops-March-2021.pdf
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 question from Chambers:
1. Why do you believe you will make a good barrister? (Character limit 1200)
2. Why do you want to join our chambers? (Character limit (1200)
3. Please tell us about a time when you have had to overcome an obstacle in your life, and how you overcame it (Character limit 1200)
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
QEB is one of the premier family law sets in the country. We specialise in the financial consequences of relationship breakdown from divorce to applications under TLATA. We act in many of the most complex and high-profile cases, often involving complicated asset structures, international issues and prenuptial agreements.
Whilst best known for our work in financial proceedings, many of our barristers also have expertise in private law children work particularly in cases with an international element.
We are ranked Band 1 in Chambers & Partners for matrimonial work. QEB has been described in The Legal 500 as a ‘heavyweight family law chambers’, a ‘hotbed of talent’, and ‘in the top echelons for decades’ with a ‘long-held reputation for excellence’ and a ‘fine tradition of producing the very best financial barristers.’ Members of chambers are consistently praised in Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and other publications as leaders in their field.
A pupillage at QEB involves three four-month 'rotations' each spent with a different pupil supervisor. Pupils will also undertake work for other barristers in Chambers and be allocated a junior contact at the start of the year. Junior contacts are an invaluable source of support and wisdom about life at the Bar for new barristers and will take pupils to court regularly to familiarise them with junior work.
Throughout the year our pupils complete assessments in different disciplines. The feedback from these assessments is combined with the three pupil supervisor reports and presented to Chambers at the annual tenancy meeting.
During second-six a pupil can usually be expected to be in court once or twice a week, with the volume of work increasing towards the end of their pupillage.
