Pupillage Vacancy Information
Financial and Other Support Available
We are happy to consider any request for part of the pupillage award to be drawn down during the BPTC year.
We advertise all pupillages on the Bar Council’s Pupillage Gateway (see here). However, we do not process applications through the Gateway. Instead, applications are made by CV and covering letter and are submitted to us via the Rare Recruitment website, details will be available here.
We ask for a CV and covering letter because we want to give you the freedom to express yourself in the way that you think will best make your case. There is no ‘right’ way to write a covering letter or a CV, just like there is no one type of Radcliffe barrister. All we ask is that your CV and covering letter are each limited to two pages (i.e. four pages in total) and address the criteria under the ‘what we look for’ heading here.
When submitting your application, you will be asked to complete a short questionnaire from Rare, which will be used to provide us with contextual information about our applicants.
We fund all training courses required during pupillage but we also ask our pupils to attend other training organised either by ourselves, with other chancery sets such as the forensic accountancy course and external organisations. Pupils are also encouraged to take part in the training we organise for members, which in the past has included networking skills and cryptocurrency.
During their first two years of practice, new tenants are not required to pay rent for their rooms in Chambers. In their third year they only pay half the rent.
