By Chevan Ilangaratne - Employment and PI/Clinical Negligence Barrister at St Philips Chambers
For me, and I suspect many others, the nerves and excitement I felt on day one of Pupillage were unlike anything I had felt before. Fast forward time and I am now some way into my first year of tenancy at St Philips Chambers, having successfully completed Pupillage there in October 2022.
In terms of my Pupillage story, my route to the Bar was somewhat conventional. I did undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees; I worked in legal charities and a law firm to gain experience before sending off several applications to various Chambers. Eventually I struck gold.
My Pupillage, which was a specialist one in Employment and PI/Clinical Negligence law, in Birmingham was too conventional, and I say, v...
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