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Pupillage is a compulsory one-year training period spent in an authorised training organisation (ATO): either barristers' chambers or another approved legal environment).
Pupil barristers by gender
2004/05
2005/06
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
Male
276
250
238
261
280
Female
251
264
249
210
No data
29
4
25
52
Pupil barrister by ethnicity
BME
88
85
107
105
68
White
434
423
394
402
420
34
7
26
54
27
Pupil barristers by university attended
2009/10
Oxford/Cambridge
161
(30.7%)
147
(28.7%)
(32.3%)
(31.6%)
157
(32%)
109
(23.7%)
Russell Group (without Oxbridge)
165
(31.4%)
177
(34.7%)
174
(35%)
189
(37.2%)
164
(33.4%)
103
(22.4%)
All other universities
197
(37.5%)
185
(36.1%)
162
(32.5%)
158
(31.1%)
(33.5%)
195
(42.4%)
0
53
(11.5%)
Pupil Barristers by degree classification
First
127
(21.4%)
108
(21.1%)
149
(29.6%)
(28.8%)
160
(32.7%)
(23.5%)
Upper second
310
(58.8%)
329
(64.3%)
296
320
(62.7%)
273
(55.7%)
243
(52.8%)
Lower second
73
(13.9%)
(13.3%)
48
(9.5%)
(5.7%)
42
(8.6%)
39
(8.5%)
Third
6
(1.1%)
2
(0.4%)
1
(0.2%)
(0.8%)
11
(2.2%)
Other
8
(1.5%)
(1.6%)
9
(2%)
Missing data
55
(12.8%)
Entry to the Bar
Start date (academic year)
Applicants for pupillage
First Six
Second Six
New tenants
New employee's
1998/1999
541
1999/2000
511
2000/2001
695
700
535
2001/2002
812*
724
2002/2003
586
702
698
2003/2004
518
557
601
182
2004/2005
556
598
544
156
2005/2006
515
567
531
191
2006/2007
527
563
499
228
2007/2008
562
555
494
239
2008/2009
2,802
462
497
213
2009/2010
2,841
460
467
171
2010/2011
2,865
* NB due to 30th September 2002 falling on a Monday, 112 pupillages which would normally have been registered in the 2002/3 year were registered in the 2001/2 year, causing the higher than usual figure for that year and the lower than usual figure for 2002/3.
