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Training

Training as a barrister typically involves three main stages of training:

1. Academic Stage: An undergraduate degree in law, or an undergraduate degree in any other subject followed by the conversion course.

2. Vocational Stage: The Bar Vocational Course (BVC), one year full-time or two years part-time.

3. Pupillage: One year spent in an authorised pupillage training organisation (either barristers’ chambers or another approved legal environment).  The link for pupillage vacancies is available here and a list of authorised PTOs (non-chambers) is here.

The final stage is to obtain tenancy in a set of barristers’ chambers, or to go into employed practice with a company or other organisation which employs barristers.