I read today that aspiring barristers will have to prove their fluency in English before being offered a place at Bar school.  The pilot exams – aimed at preventing applicants with mediocre linguistic abilities from winning a place – will be introduced later this month and will also test analytical and critical thinking skills. The [...]

Alice Clarke, a student on the Bar Vocational Course, has had her exam marks upgraded after refusing to accept the results of her final examinations.    This legal battle took four years after she claimed that the low marks for her oral examinations in advanced criminal litigation and negotiation were because of disagreements with her tutors [...]

In December 2006′s Bar Council survey, it revealed that: 1) 30.6% of the 625 students responding had debts of more than £20,000 2) 71.5% of BVC students had applied for pupillage, but more than half had not received an offer of interview 3) Nearly half of those who got an interview failed to get an [...]