Recruitment

During the last decade we have adopted and carried out a policy of expansion. We select three or four funded pupils each year from whom we intend to recruit new tenants. It remains our intention to recruit at least one new tenant every year from pupils in Chambers. In practice, we normally recruit two tenants per year, and we have recruited three in exceptional years. We are committed to recruiting new tenants from among our funded pupils whenever we can.

During the first six months of pupillage, each candidate is assessed from time to time by the pupillage committee in consultation with his or her current and past pupil supervisors. At the end of the first six months, each pupil will be told in confidence whether it would be in the pupil's best interests to take up a second pupillage elsewhere. Some pupils may decide to remain for the rest of the year even if they are not candidates for a tenancy. The Members of Chambers make every effort to place ex-pupils in other sets when necessary: in recent years we have been able to find satisfactory places for most of our former pupils who wished to go into practice.