What happens when you start a pupillage in Chambers

• Recruitment
• Introduction from Mukul Chawla QC
• Education
• Mini-pupillage
• The Pupillage Committee
• Selection of twelve-month pupils through OLPAS
• Obligations of pupil supervisors
• Applications for third six pupillage
• Recruiting Tenants from the pool of pupils
• What happens when you start a pupillage in Chambers
• After pupillage
• Rights and entitlements of a pupil at 9-12 Bell yard
• Duties as a pupil
• Useful telephone numbers

On the first day of your pupillage there will be a short talk in the morning in Chambers with members of the Pupillage Committee. If you are starting a twelve-month pupillage you will receive your first cheque.

The Chambers' Administration and Facilities Manager will also meet you and give you information about the mechanics of Chambers.

You will have been put in contact with your pupil supervisor the weekend before you start and will therefore know where to find him or her at court following the induction.

Structure of pupillage

During a twelve-month pupillage at 9-12 Bell Yard a pupil will have three pupil supervisors: one every four months. During a third six pupillage a pupil will have two pupil supervisors: one every three months. The advantages of this system are:

• Pupils get to know more members of Chambers
• Pupils get to see a broader variety of work
• Chambers are better able to assess pupils
• Personality differences have less significance than under a traditional system
• Twelve-month pupils have the advantage of starting their second six months with a pupil supervisor with whom they have built some rapport.