Budget 2026: What It Means for Businesses, Clients and Your Commercial Awareness

Hayley Dove

Published on: 30/10/2026

Budget 2026 explained for aspiring lawyers plus how to turn the Budget into a strong commercial awareness interview answer.

Is Trick-or-Treating Actually Legal? Halloween Law in the UK (And What It Teaches You About Legal Analysis)

Hayley Dove

Published on: 29/10/2026

Halloween questions answered on trick-or-treating, trespass, harassment, criminal damage, occupiers' liability, costume safety rules and fireworks, and what each one teaches about legal analysis.

What Recruiters Actually Want in Your Application Form

Hayley Dove

Published on: 16/10/2026

What makes an application form persuasive: specific evidence, honest tailoring and answers you can defend at interview, and the common habits that make recruiters stop reading.

Will AI Change What Chambers Look For? The Skills That Still Matter

John Dove

Published on: 06/10/2026

How AI is changing legal work, why pupillage panels will still judge your own reasoning and judgement, and the six skills aspiring barristers should build deliberately.

Mini-Pupillage to Pupillage: How to Turn a Week of Shadowing Into Application Evidence

John Dove

Published on: 05/10/2026

How to get real application evidence out of a mini-pupillage: what chambers look for, how to keep a useful record, and how to write about your experience with specific, honest detail.

Pupillage and Tenancy Explained: What Actually Happens in Your First Year in Chambers

John Dove

Published on: 01/10/2026

A plain-English guide to pupillage and tenancy: the first and second six, how pupils are assessed and paid, how tenancy decisions are made, and what happens if you are not offered one