Bar Training Course

Our Pg Dip Bar Training Course from Cardiff University is a skills-based, intensive full-time 10-month course designed to prepare a prospective Barrister for the period of work-based learning, known as pupillage.

Key facts

This program enables you to acquire the skills, knowledge of procedure and evidence for you to meet the Bar Standards Board (BSB) criteria, as set out in their Professional Statement for Barristers.

Our program aims to foster a professional and ethical approach to practice as a barrister, whilst giving you an informed view of a barrister’s working life and the opportunity to reflect on the challenges facing the legal profession in today’s world.

Our teaching is timetabled between Monday and Thursday (i.e. no more than four days), to provide time for personal study.Advocacy and conferencing will be taught intensively in two-hour sessions to no more than six students. You will also be able to undertake a specialist advocacy option.

You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake the BSB centrally set assessments in December, April and August during the academic year you are enrolled as a student.

On successful completion, you'll be eligible to be called to the Bar of England and Wales (subject to meeting the qualifying session requirement of your Inn of Court).

Accreditations

• Bar Standards Board

Courses include:

• Criminal Litigation, Evidence and Sentencing

• Conference Skills

• Opinion Writing

• Drafting

• Trial Advocacy

• Submission Advocacy