Qualifying Sessions

• Identify sources for support, social networking and wellbeing provided by the Inner Temple and wider profession.
• Understand more clearly the educational opportunities and student societies open to them as student members of the Inn and how to access these resources.
• Feel more confident in their ability to engage in Qualifying Sessions offered by the Inn as a way to augment their Bar Course studies.

• Identify sources for support, social networking and wellbeing provided by the Inner Temple and wider profession.
• Understand more clearly the educational opportunities and student societies open to them as student members of the Inn and how to access these resources.
• Feel more confident in their ability to engage in Qualifying Sessions offered by the Inn as a way to augment their Bar Course studies.

• Feel more confident in their ability to deliver clear and persuasive oral advocacy.
• Recognise the link between advocacy and performance and apply this to the way they construct their submissions.
• Feel more confident in their ability to conduct legal research for complex legal cases.
• Identify the resources available to students and pupils at the Inner Temple Library and online.
• Identify areas in which their oral advocacy can be materially improved.

• Feel more confident in their ability to deliver clear and persuasive oral advocacy.
• Recognise the link between advocacy and performance and apply this to the way they construct their submissions.
• Feel more confident in their ability to conduct legal research for complex legal cases.
• Identify the resources available to students and pupils at the Inner Temple Library and online.
• Identify areas in which their oral advocacy can be materially improved.

• Identify the key opportunities and limitations of international institutions in responding to global crises and geopolitical change.
• Analyse how different professional perspectives influence decision-making in international affairs.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the interaction between law, diplomacy and international relations.
• Reflect on the role of advocates and legal professionals in navigating complex international challenges.
• Enhance their critical thinking skills.

Deprivation of Liberty Orders

Speaker: The Rt Hon Lady Justice Lieven DBE

• Develop further understanding of Deprivation of Liberty Orders.

• Identify ways in which to promote diversity in the workplace.
• Identify LGBTQ+ support networks and initiatives available at the Bar.
• Discuss equality, diversity and inclusion issues that can arise in the legal profession, from the recruitment stage to long-term practice.

Join us in Birmingham for three skills sessions with our local practitioners and experts:

• Court Room Skills with a judge
• Interview and Application Skills Workshops
• Expert Skills lecture

• Identify ways in which to improve pupillage applications, interviews or the first few days at the Bar.
• More fully understand proper practice in a court room, specifically communicating effectively with a judge.
• Discuss a point of law or the profession in more detail, further to the input of our invited expert.

• Describe key skills needed for mooting and advocacy.
• Reflect on how they can improve their advocacy skills.

• Gain a greater understanding of support and allyship at the Bar and identify suitable pathways to provide support in appropriate circumstances.

• Identify ways in which to promote wellbeing in the study/workplace.
• Use skills and knowledge to support their personal and professional wellbeing.
• Describe the primary challenges to wellbeing whilst studying for and during practice at the Bar.

• Describe how to build on legal research skills they have already acquired.
• Explain how to undertake legal research expected of Pupils at the Bar.

• Differentiate between human rights fact-finding, commissions of inquiry and judicial or prosecutorial investigations, and understand their respective roles in international legal proceedings.
• Evaluate the admissibility, reliability and evidential weight of witness, documentary, digital and open-source evidence in international criminal and public international law.
• Identify practical approaches to collecting, preserving and presenting evidence in complex international cases, including those involving restricted access, vulnerable witnesses and emerging technologies.
• Recognise the strategic role of expert evidence and effective fact-finding in meeting the evidential standards applied by international courts and tribunals.

Representing Children in the Crown CourtAn exploration of the practical issues that are often encountered when representing children accused of serious criminal offences in the Crown Court.

Speaker: Richard Wright KC

• Develop further understanding of advocacy and procedures regarding children charged with serious offences.

Join us in Liverpool for three skills sessions with our local practitioners and experts:

• Court Room Skills with a judge
• Interview and Application Skills Workshops
• Expert Skills lecture

• Identify ways in which to improve pupillage applications, interviews or the first few days at the Bar.
• More fully understand proper practice in a court room, specifically communicating effectively with a judge.
• Discuss a point of law or the profession in more detail, further to the input of our invited expert.

• Have a better understanding of the law and how working in IHL requires recognition of realities not often encountered in domestic courts and a willingness to work in environments where failures of the law may sometimes have to be accepted as beyond lawyers alone to remedy.

• Identify areas in which their oral advocacy can be materially improved.
• Work with greater confidence on legal problems and pieces of advocacy provided at short notice.

• Identify areas in which their oral advocacy can be materially improved.
• Work with greater confidence on legal problems and pieces of advocacy provided at short notice.

• Identify and apply core duties to ethical challenges faced by barristers.
• Respond more confidently to time-sensitive and complex dilemmas in the legal workplace.
• Describe the support resources available to practising barristers when grappling with complex ethics issues.