Mini-Pupillage

Deka Chambers offers mini-pupillages as a means both of encouraging talented individuals and of promoting equality, diversity, and fairness of access to the profession. Chambers offers a number of unassessed mini-pupillages each year. Each mini-pupillage will last 2 days in duration. Chambers will aim to assign each participant to civil work for one day and to criminal work for the other. Applicants must be 18 or over to apply.

Due to anticipated demand, we will select applicants on the basis of i) interest in Deka Chambers and its practice areas; ii) interest in a career at the Bar; and iii) persuasiveness and clarity of written communication. Individuals who have previously undertaken a mini-pupillage with Deka Chambers (or either of its prior constituent parts, 9 Gough Chambers or 1 Chancery Lane) will not be eligible for another mini-pupillage. For the successful applicants, we are unable to provide expenses to those participating in our mini pupillage schemes.

The application window for our next mini-pupillage scheme will open in the summer of 2026. We will update details here in due course.