New Practitioners

Registering your tenancy is one of the first essential steps in establishing your practice as a barrister. The Inn provides tailored support and guidance for New Practitioners to help you succeed in your early years of practice, ensuring access to courses, educational events and mentoring to support your professional development.

Registering tenancy

You must register your tenancy with the Inn and the Bar Standards Board (BSB).

• Submit the Inn’s tenancy registration form
• Submit the Bar Standards Board registration form
  Visit the BSB website

• Register your tenancy

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  Tenancy registration form

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  First name*

  Surname*

  Email*

  Please provide your preferred email address. Our primary method of contacting you will be via this address.

  Member number*

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  Tenant

  Squatter

  Employed barrister

  Start date*

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  Chambers / Employer

  Chambers / Professional address*

  Further information

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  Records*

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  New Practitioners Programme*

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New Practitioner Programme (NPP)

The New Practitioner Programme (NPP) starts on 1 January the calendar year after you first started practicing as a barrister. This applies whether you are a member of chambers, an employed barrister, a ‘squatter’, or on a probationary period. You must complete the NPP during the first three calendar years in which you hold a practicing certificate after completing pupillage. 

The requirements of the NPP are at least 45 hours of CPD during the three-year period. This must include at least nine hours on advocacy and at least three hours on ethics. 

For more information, please visit the Bar Standards Board website.

New practitioner courses 

If you have registered your tenancy with the Inn, you will be contacted when the application window for the New Practitioner Course opens. You will be unsubscribed once you have passed your 3-year deadline or once you have completed the course. 

Our New Practitioner Weekend courses provide 16 CPD hours in total, which includes 9 advocacy hours and 3 ethics hours. Typically, we run 2 courses per year, one during Hilary term and one during Michaelmas. Additional courses may be added if deemed necessary. 

We run an ethics only session , worth 3 ethics hours, independent of the advocacy weekend. 

New practitioner courses are also run by the Circuits (visit the BSB website). You are welcome to apply for a referral to undertake the course with another Inn but please note this is by exception only. To discuss a referral, please contact the education department. 

GIBC Practitioner Mentoring Scheme

The GIBC (Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee) Practitioner Mentoring Scheme can be a valuable source of support during your early years of practice. Whether you need guidance on moving into a different practice area, moving from the Self-Employed Bar to the Employed Bar (or vice-versa) or you simply have an issue that you would feel more comfortable discussing with someone outside of your Chambers / organisation, it can be a real help to have a mentor from the Inn.

• Mentoring for Practitioners

  Mentoring Scheme for Practitioners

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  Inn membership number*

  Please provide your Gray's Inn membership number. This can be found on your membership card.

  First Name*

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  Practice area preference (main)*

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  Public

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  Other

  Other interests*

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  Practice area interests*

  Describe your practice area interests (max 250 words). You will be allocated to a mentor primarily based on your practice interests as detailed here and above.

  Preferred mentor location(s)*

  Please indicate up to 3 locations, in order of preference

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  Chambers/Organisation name*

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  Additional information

  Please detail anything relevant to assist with your mentor allocation. For example, are you seeking guidance on changing practice area, building a specialist practice, moving from the self-employed to employed Bar (or vice versa)?

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