Mini-Pupillage Thread 2015/16

From people's comments on here and my own experience, I think they're one of the best sets at doing minis, albeit that their minis are a little long. The members are really friendly too, so when you're in/around chambers, expect to be going to lunch in hall with a group of people that your mini-pupil supervisor has rounded up.

I spent three days in court and two in chambers, but I felt like if I'd wanted to spend more time in chambers I could have just said -- the days out of chambers were more offered to me in a 'do you fancy going to see this?' manner.

They do seem to be ahead of the game with recruitment. They treat mini-pupils well, and have a dedicated pupillage site, etc. It's almost more like a firm's approach than a traditional set's approach.

Thanks for the replies everyone that's really informative! Certainly looking forward to it given the great things I've heard - don't know if it's just me but I always seem to get slightly nervous before these things even though iv got a couple under by belt already...

PS. Congrats on the 39 Essex mini, from what I gathered in the pupillage thread (?)

Mini-pupillage interview with Brick Court secured! Anyone been through the process before and able to shed some light?

Yes - very brief interview where they asked me just two questions - no substantive law involved. I think I was in and out in about 5-6 mins - which I assumed at the time was disastrous but a few days later they offered me a mini.

Good luck,

Thanks! I've heard the mini's are quite intense but very keen to complete one with the view to pupillage so hopefully all goes well at the interview

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Yeah the Brick Court mini is intense. They give everyone the same set problem (which I can't discuss), but your mini-pupil supervisor will ask you to do other small pieces of work as well - opinions, defences, PoCs etc, then they stick it all in a file with the supervisor's comments, and that information all forms part of deciding who to interview and who to offer pupillage to. I enjoyed it a lot, though.

Mini-pupillage interview with Brick Court secured! Anyone been through the process before and able to shed some light?

Congrats! I've been meaning to apply there for a while now, so here's hoping my app gets on as well as yours did

Fingers crossed for you, I was quite surprised when the email came through actually because it's been around 2 months since I applied so I had almost forgot about it in the mayhem of the pupillage applications

Yes - very brief interview where they asked me just two questions - no substantive law involved. I think I was in and out in about 5-6 mins - which I assumed at the time was disastrous but a few days later they offered me a mini.

Out of interest, were the questions CV based or current awareness/debate topic type?