Why Us?

Opportunity to not only qualify as a barrister but also, at no extra cost , to qualify as an accredited commercial mediator of the ADR Group Bristol. Four day course offered in June after the end of the BPTC. This not only adds to your CV (because chambers are looking to offer mediation as well as litigation services) but also gives you a qualification in its own right i.e. an alternative career. Course is optional. If you went to the ADR group as an individual a similar course would cost £2,300.00!

Opportunities to undertake Pro Bono work. The Community Legal Advice and Representation Service (CLARS) is a unique collaboration between the Bristol CAB, the University of Bristol Law Clinic, the Bristol Bar and UWE. “Bristol Law Students and Bar working together for the Community”

• Flexible modes of learning: full time or part time (by open learning) mode of study.
• Highly experienced teaching team with a dynamic mix of academics and practitioners
• Exercises based on up to date and real life briefs
• Weekly* skills sessions; advocacy, conferencing and REDOC in groups of 6 with individual written and oral feedback (* weekly on the full time course; monthly on the part time course)
• All skills session recorded for your reflection and improvement
• Three realistic court rooms and court room furniture in several other base rooms
• 3 full day “mock” trials with full student participation as counsel and witnesses
• Strong links with the Bristol Bar and Western Circuit; Advocacy “Master Classes” provided by local practitioners, supporting an intensive advocacy course
• Actors participating in conferencing and criminal advocacy assessments to ensure realism
• Reputation for maintaining high standards
• Teaching in your dedicated base room; each equipped with IT equipment, DVD recording facilities and on-line access to a rich source of materials, including practitioner texts and statutes
• 24/7 access to the Universities virtual learning environment providing an extensive selection of learning resources including on-line video demonstrations; downloadable narrated power point lectures; on-line multiple choice questions to self-test in the knowledge areas
• Dedicated “Chambers” Library together with the University Law Library (considered one of the finest Law Libraries in the South West)
• University Infrastructure providing excellent student support; careers advice; sport and social opportunities
• Optional law related placement weeks involving judicial participation; mini-pupillages; court martials; the Forces and the Employed Bar