Call to the bar vs graduation

Normally, the uni will also hold a graduation ceremony, although I don't think it is very well attended (I didn't go to mine, nor did any of my classmates other than one because it was the day her parents could fly back from Singapore). I honestly don't recall the expenses.

I don't think there was a separate graduation ceremony for my bar course. We're going back a little bit now though. If there was I obviously decided quickly that I wasn't going and have since forgotten about it. Can't recall now where I got my certificate either, but imagine it was in the post or we went in to get them. It may be that they're more common now because you see students doing LLMs alongside them, but personally I don't think I'd be bothered about going to a graduation ceremony for the bar course. As you say, that is pretty much what being called is. That's the important one for the memories in my view.