The following schemes and activities are open to all Bar course students only and are there to make your life easier and enhance your experience as a student so please take advantage of them!

The Mentoring Scheme aims to pair Bar course students with barristers who can give advice and guidance on an impartial basis. Examples of the kind of support offered by mentors include meetings in person or via Zoom/Teams, advice offered by email, telephone calls, attending an Inn event with them, or visiting court with them.

Students and Mentors are primarily allocated based on geographical location and practice area (of interest to the student). In recent years we have also matched students based on protected characteristic and social-mobility background. If you are, for example, from an underrepresented group and would like to receive support from a practising barrister from the same group, you will be able to select this on the application form.

The Mentoring Scheme is open to current Bar Course students only. On Friday 4 October 2024, all eligible students will be sent a link to anonline application form. If you do not receive this email, please contact mentoring@innertemple.org.uk.

Unfortunately there are very limited spaces on the scheme, and mentors will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The Mentoring Scheme relies on volunteers, and we cannot guarantee the availability of mentors in specific areas of practice or geographical locations.

The Inner Temple Mentoring Scheme needs your help!

We want to make sure that in the twenty-first century, every Bar student who wants mentoring, regardless of background, should be given the help and support in their student year. As an Inn committed to providing our students with the best support available, we are asking all those who have a bit of time spare to offer support and guidance to a student. The amount of contact that you have with your assigned student is entirely up to you.

Mentoring is open to anyone who has been in practice for at least three years, in any area of law.

If this is something with which you would like to be involved in, please follow the link below to volunteer.

This scheme aims to help Bar course students develop their interview skills in preparation for imminent pupillage interviews. Students are given the opportunity to practise their interview technique and to build up confidence in front of barristers.

Priority will be given to students who have Pupillage interviews lined up. For further information and to apply, please contact the Pre-Pupillage team.

This scheme gives you the opportunity to spend up to a week with a High Court or Circuit Judge either in London or the provinces. The judge will show you the case papers and discuss the case proceedings. The experience provides a valuable opportunity to observe the workings of the court from an entirely different perspective. This scheme is open to full-time Bar course students, part-time Bar course students in their second year, and those who have been called but are yet to obtain pupillage. 

The scheme is open to current Bar Training Course students and to student members who have completed the Bar Training Course but are yet to obtain pupillage. Please read the guidance notes below for further information. 

Applications Deadline: 31st January 2025