In Scotland, advocates have a comparable role and have rights of audience in all Scottish courts. You'll usually specialise in a particular area of law such as:. Work activities depend on a range of factors, including your area of practice.
However, your main focus is on solving problems and resolving disputes, and you'll typically need to:. Your area of practice will largely determine the balance and emphasis of these activities. For example:. Employed barristers undertake similar activities for one company or client. At more senior levels, they may also become involved with the development of legal policy and strategy.
Barristers also contribute to the collective running and management of chambers, particularly with the recruitment of pupils and other tenants. These include your geographical location, area of practice, experience and reputation, as well as your type of employer self-employed or employed.
Salaries at top commercial sets, for example, can be much higher than those at family or criminal sets. Earnings for barristers in the early stages of their career are sometimes extremely low and there may be a considerable delay between doing the work and receiving payment. Deductions for costs such as rent for chambers, clerks' fees, tax, insurance and travel must also be taken into account if you're self-employed. Salaries for employed barristers will be less varied as they're determined by your employer.
While courts tend to sit at regular hours during the day, barristers frequently have to work long, unsocial hours involving evenings and weekends, particularly at the beginning of their career. To complete the academic component of training, you'll need to get a minimum undergraduate degree. If your degree is in a subject other than law, or if you took your law degree more than five years' ago, you'll need to complete a law conversion course , which is commonly called the Graduate Diploma in Law GDL.
Some course providers offer an integrated academic and vocational course, which combines both the academic and vocational elements of the training. In order to start the vocational component of training, you'll need to pass the Bar Course Aptitude Test BCAT , which tests your aptitude for critical thinking and reasoning. You must also join one of the four Inns of Court:. The Inns provide educational and social support for barristers and student barristers, including libraries, dining halls and common rooms.
The choice of Inn does not affect the areas of legal practice open to you, or the choice of chambers for pupillage or tenancy applications, but if you have received a scholarship, you will be required to join the Inn that provided it.
The student officer at each Inn will supply more information. A limited number of scholarships are also available from the four Inns of Court. The aim of the vocational component of training is to provide you with the specialist skills, knowledge, attitudes and competence needed to become a barrister. The names of these courses may vary but they will all satisfy the vocational component. Look out for names such as:.
For more information, see Bar courses. After the vocational component of training, intending barristers must complete a pupillage work-based component in order to practise. The pupillage is divided into two parts:. Competition is fierce, in terms of both academic standards and personal qualities. People who are not barristers may be committing a criminal offence if they describe themselves as a barrister. It is not a title or a honorific. However, Oxford and Cambridge remain overrepresented in the pupillage statistics.
It is many subjects civil and criminal litigation, amongst others taken over a 32ish week period. You also have modules in advocacy, drafting, opinion writing, plus a further 2 area if law etc. Have you trained to become a solicitor and had a change of heart?
This means that solicitors can now perform many of the functions of a barrister up to a certain point, although barristers are able to work in a significantly higher level of court than their solicitor counterparts. Essentially barristers do three things: Appear in court to represent others. Give specialised legal advice in person or in writing.
Draft court documents. It states that a barrister must always accept instructions no matter how despicable or vile the client is, if the client has opinions or beliefs which churn the stomach and even if the client is funded by put your rubber gloves on legal aid.
There are a number of reasons why barristers still wear wigs. A QC who has made a good name for themselves over many years, working at a top London commercial set, can become if not quite as rich as Croesus himself, then certainly rich enough to pay for a nice house in the Cotswolds and several fancy cars. And even a junior barrister at a leading commercial set can expect to earn a six-figure sum in their first year of practice, with their earnings increasing by a significant chunk as they become more senior.
By contrast, the lack of dosh available at the junior end of the Criminal Bar is well documented. Some juniors in this field may struggle to make enough money to live on, and certain chambers whose juniors have low earnings offer them interest-free loans to cover costs.
That's a credit to those sets but an indictment of the low earnings at the publicly funded Bar as a result of legal aid cuts.
Anonymous blogger the Secret Barrister famously pointed out that the House of Commons was advertising for a position as a barista which paid more than a typical legal aid junior earns. Furthermore, as barristers are self-employed they can take as much or little holiday as they want. This naturally has an impact on their annual income. As you can now tell, the answer to the question 'how much do barristers earn' is 'how long is a piece of string? So to give you a bit more detail on the typical earnings in different fields, we got in touch with a number of leading barristers' chambers in different areas of practice and asked them anecdotally what their most junior members would typically earn.
Together they provided us with the numbers below, which we suggest you regard as a general guideline rather than a definitive 'this is what you will earn'.
Please note that the figures above represent the likely upper and lower limits of earnings, and the mid-point between them should not be taken as an average pay packet. Take crime, for example: growth at the top end will be driven by privately-funded cases, but drastic legal aid cuts have meant average earnings have actually shrunk recently. Within each area of practice earnings will also vary depending on how busy you are, how high-profile your set's work is and the type of clients.
Publicly-funded children's law family work for a local authority client will pay much much less than privately funded divorce work. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. YSC session This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.
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