Talk:Pupillage

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This article has an expansion notice but it seems fairly complete except for the fact that there is nothing about the history of the pupillage system. 82.18.125.110 09:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I would suggest that whilst pupillages remain split into two six month periods and that a pupil may have different pupil masters, it is not the case that an increasing number of students are undertaking their 1st and 2nd Six at different Chambers. I would suggest that this practice was more common in times past.--ScMeGr 18:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

The article says "The situation is so dire now, that there are effectively no pupillages left and no such thing as a pupillage. There is tremendous competition for the diminishing number of places. This means that successful candidates will now tend to be those with family already practising in the Bar or the Judiciary, who have attended Oxbridge, and are young, blonde and female" I'm an American law student so I have no idea if this is true, but I doubt it is. Perhaps someone should look into this.

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This need a lot of work. There is no structural difference between criminal law and civil law pupils. There is no such thing as a pupilmaster any more. I'll do what i can. Kingsbench (talk) 15:23, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

"Gaining a pupillage is not easy. Every year around only 45%-50% of applications are successful.[5]"

These stats seem way off. If we look at the article referenced it is full of internal inconsistency. From the bar council website the recent review of the BVC reports that: In the present round 294 pupillages are offered under the OLPAS. 3,768 individual students have applied for them.

Also, I'd second what Kingsbench says above, it seems really odd to have a 'Criminal law pupillage' section. --Theonlyothernameleft (talk) 11:25, 15 July 2009 (UTC)