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.

If you would like to apply, please download and complete and application form from here, and send your application to minipupillage@dekachambers.com Applications will be accepted until 11:59pm on Friday 15^th August 2025, and successful candidates will be notified by Friday 12^th September 2025. We will then seek to schedule mini pupillages between 1^st October 2025 and 31^st January 2026.