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Tenancy
Chambers aims to recruit regularly in order to maintain a structure which provides our clients with a choice of Counsel of different experience and which advances the careers of individual barristers.
On average we aim to recruit one new member every year from our two pupils. In some years, we may recruit more than one candidate; in others, we may decide not to recruit.
The timing and procedure for recruitment depends on the needs of chambers and the quality of the current pupils. Generally, we decide in July each year whether we wish to recruit at the end of the pupillage year. If we decide to recruit, we will consider our pupils first. Our preference is to recruit from our own pupils, but we may decide to advertise and appraise existing pupils against external candidates. The decision will normally be made and communicated by the end of July. Sometimes, however, we postpone the decision until the following autumn in order to see more of our internal candidates before offering a seat.
If you are taken on, our experience for many years has been that new recruits are fully employed doing their own work (as opposed to devilling) from shortly after the time they become full members of chambers.
On the other hand if you are not to be taken on, as soon as it is clear that this is the case, you will be told either by your pupil supervisor or the Head of Chambers. We have a good record of placing ex-pupils, many of whom are now successful practitioners in other chambers.