HOW TO APPLY LIFE AS A PUPIL Pupillage My abiding memory of pupillage was the genuine desire of chambers for its pupils to succeed. Pupillage is always going to be a tough year, but our chambers wants its pupils to get as much out of the year as possible so that if and when tenancy comes around, you can hit the ground running. Chambers is a member of the Pupillage Gateway (www.pupillagegateway.com) and all applications for pupillage are considered under that scheme. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] or alternatively visit our website: www.landmarkchambers.co.uk We are committed to providing our pupils with relevant, constructive and considerate training. Our Equality & Diversity Policy and Diversity Committee actively ensure that all pupils are treated with courtesy, respect and without discrimination of any kind. Mini-pupillage Send a full CV with a covering email to [email protected] Due to the limited number of places available preference is given to third year law undergraduates or those on the CPE course. Deadlines for applications are as follows: February-March: The preceding 31 December May-June: The preceding 31 March October-November: The preceding 31 August Landmark Chambers 180 Fleet Street London EC4A 2HG DX:1042 (LDE) t: +44 (0)20 7430 1221 f: +44 (0)20 7421 6060 e: [email protected] @Landmark_LC www.landmarkchambers.co.uk Design searsdavies.com Pupils do not compete at Landmark for only one place in chambers. If all three pupils are good enough then, within reason, all three will be taken on. I got on very well with my fellow pupil (there were only two of us in my year), and we now share a room together in chambers. You’re assessed based on the work you do for your pupil supervisors along with four more formal assessments (one advocacy exercise and three opinions) which you’ll sit throughout the year. You will also do a number of pieces of work for other members of chambers but, unlike other sets, you’re not required to get around every member of chambers so you will not be in until 3am desperately trying to ﬁnish an opinion for each and every one. You also get to be really involved in your supervisor’s work. You will not be handed a set of papers which your supervisor completed a year ago so that when you ﬁnish your opinion they go through it with a red pen showing you where it diﬀered from theirs. Instead you will generally be given current papers. Going through an opponent’s last minute skeleton received minutes before ﬂying out to the Isle of Man to see the case argued, and then assisting in drafting speaking notes in reply, stands out as an example of this happening. And ﬁnishing in time to still sample a Burns’ Night supper is not a bad memory either! As to hours of work, you will generally be in chambers from 9am to 6pm. If you’re at your desk past 6:30 you’ll invariably get someone pop their head round the door and remind you that you don’t need to be there into the wee-small hours. After that, the decision’s up to you - if you need to stay and work, no one will stop you, but the key thing is that you’re never expected to be here late or on weekends. There are plenty of opportunities to be involved in cases that are on the cutting edge of the law, but also plenty of opportunities to be involved in the social life of chambers. So you can expect a challenging year, but an incredibly rewarding (and at times even a fun) one too. Andrew Byass LIFE AS A NEW TENANT One of the best things about being a new tenant at Landmark Chambers is the huge variety of work that you get to experience. From day one the majority of work is dealing with your own cases whether that be in the county court, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, the High Court, the Magistrates’ Courts, in front of a planning inspector or an immigration tribunal. In a typical week you might be in court perhaps three times and the remainder of the time is paperwork. The great thing about Landmark is that because you practise in more than one area the paperwork is varied and there is always something new and exciting to get your teeth into. There are also fantastic opportunities to be led on high proﬁle and complex cases by more senior members of chambers. For example I recently acted as a junior in a leading ﬁve week environmental nuisance case in the High Court in Birmingham which involved me cross examining the witnesses of fact. The jump from pupillage to tenancy can be challenging and I have really beneﬁted from having a more senior member of chambers as a mentor. Although all new tenants have a ’designated’ mentor the reality is that everyone in chambers is happy to listen and provide guidance and assistance. I have found my ﬁrst few years challenging and immensely rewarding but most of all fun. Katie Helmore PUPILLAGE MINI-PUPILLAGE “A VERY SLICK OPERATION” ABOUT CHAMBERS “IF YOU WANT VERY BRIGHT COUNSEL... YOU NEED TO GO TO LANDMARK” Chambers UK 2013 n n n n n n Up to three pupillages a year, each of 12 months duration normally starting in September/October £45,000 per pupil; up to £12,000 may be taken as an early drawdown Four three-month seats each spent with a diﬀerent supervisor Four formal exercises (three written and one oral) and, along with individual feedback from your supervisors, we will provide more formal feedback sessions after three and six months In your second six months you will be in court on average once a week on your own account, usually in the County Court on small applications We will encourage you to work for others and will often send you to work with a silk or senior junior on more complex cases. This allows you to see a wide variety of work and for more members of Chambers to get to know you. n n n n n Approximately 50 mini-pupillages (not assessed) per year of between three and ﬁve days duration A mini-pupillage will give you valuable insight into the realities of life at the bar in the areas of law in which we practise and of life at Landmark Chambers We operate three mini-pupillage seasons per year: FebruaryMarch, May-June and October-November. Approximately 1520 places are available for each season Mini-pupils are assigned to a junior member of Chambers who acts as a supervisor for the week. They will be responsible for ensuring that you see a broad cross-section of work As far as possible we will place you with someone practising in an area, or areas, in which you are interested. This will give you a chance to see the type of work that you would experience as a junior tenant, and may include the opportunity to produce written work. Chambers UK 2013 “A LEADING SET” Legal 500 2012 Landmark is a leading chambers in the UK oﬀering integrated advocacy and advice in four key areas: n n Environmental Planning n n Property Public Landmark Chambers is ranked as the number one Planning and Environmental chambers in the UK by the top legal directories. We are consistently regarded as one of the leading sets in our other two main areas of work: Property and Public law. Members of Chambers have been involved in some of the most signiﬁcant cases and inquiries in recent years, including the Leveson Inquiry, the High Speed 2 rail line and the third runway for Heathrow. Landmark has 77 barristers, including 28 QCs. A number of barristers sit as Deputy High Court Judges, Recorders and act as Arbitrators, Experts and Mediators. Working throughout the UK and abroad, we have signiﬁcant experience of litigation in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, the European Court of Justice, the European General Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Aarhus Compliance Committee, the Northern Ireland courts and the courts of a number of other jurisdictions, including Hong Kong. IMPORTANT CASES Legal 500 2012 “A SUPERB REPUTATION” Environmental Law Property Law n n n n n R (HS2 Action Alliance) v Secretary of State for Transport R (Morge) v Hampshire CC R (Edwards) v Environment Agency (No 2) and R (Edwards) v Environment Agency Berkeley v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (No 1) n n n Public Law Planning Law n n n n n n The Shard of Glass Crossrail Health and Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions City of London Corporation v Samede Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row Management Hosebay Ltd v Day and Lexgorge Ltd v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd n n The Leveson Inquiry R (Shoesmith) v Ofsted R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet (No 2)