Pupillage is the name for a period of work-based learning spent in an Authorised Education and Training Organisation (AETO): either barristers' chambers or another approved legal environment.
The below data relates to those that have started pupillage at any point across the relevant legal year (which generally runs from the start of October to the end of the following September). The majority of those that start the first stage of pupillage will also start the second stage of pupillage in the same legal year.
Caveats
* Please note that reporting mechanisms have changed over the past years. As a result of sourcing from various data streams and the implementation of more robust quality assurance structures some numbers may vary from previous publications.
** The figures for 2020/21 were corrected in February 2023.
Date of next update
April 2027
Source of data
This data is sourced from the Bar Standards Board Database.
