Careers at the Chancery Bar

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This useful booklet seeks to answer some of the questions law students may have about the Chancery Bar, and to give an idea of what it might be like to do a Chancery pupillage, and then to practise at the Chancery Bar.

What is it like to be a barrister at the Chancery Bar?
A variety of Chancery barristers talk about their personal and educational backgrounds, their practice, some of their most memorable caes and what it is like to be a self-employed barrister at the Chancery Bar.

The nature of work at the Chancery Bar
In recent years the nature of work at the Chancery Bar has changed dramatically, widening the scope of both the litigation and advisory work undertaken by Chancery barristers.   The booklet contains a comprehensive description of the many areas of work practised at the Chancer Bar - you may be surprised by the variety.

How to become a barrister
The booklet contains a useful list of institutions that offer the GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law) - the conversion course that must be undertaken by students who have graduated with a non-law degree - and the BVC (Bar Vocational Course) - the one-year course, designed to provide training that is specific to the work of a barrister.

Finally, there is a comprehensive list of chambers where members of the Chancery Bar Association are to be found.

Some useful websites

The Bar Council

The Bar Standards Board

The BVC website


Institutions offering the Bar Vocational Course

BPP Law School London (full and part time)

Cardiff University

College of Law (full and part time)

Inns of Court School of Law (full and part time)

Manchester Metropolitan University

Northumbria University

Nottingham Law School

Bristol Institute of Legal Practice, University of the West of England

 

The Inns of Court

The Honourable Society of the Gray's Inn

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn

The Honourable Society of  the Middle Temple