Newly Elected Honorary Benchers 2023
Pension agreed unanimously at their meeting on 18 October to the election of those named below as Honorary Benchers of The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn: • Professor Simon Armitage CBE, FRSL – The Poet Laureate, Professor of Poetry at Leeds University and formerly Professor of Poetry at Oxford University • Professor Julia Black PBA … Continued
Congratulations Deferred Trinity Call 2023
Congratulations to all our Members who were Called to the Bar on Tuesday 17 October 2023. The names of those called to the bar are also sent for publication in The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent newspapers. Gray’s Inn Library holds copies of The Times and The Telegraph. The following 53 Members of this … Continued
Artwork in the Library: October – December
The Inn is proud to display this new work depicting its senior Royal Bencher, King Charles III, by London-based Ukrainian sculptor Anatoli Cerny. In November 2022 King Charles opened the Ukrainian Welcome Centre in London, a partnership initiative between the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy in London. Based in … Continued
Gray’s Inn Diary 2024
Judicial Appointments – September 2023
The Inn is delighted to note the Judicial appointments of the following Gray’s Inn Members in September 2023. Paul Hopkins KC The King has appointed Paul Hopkins KC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Alex Chalk KC MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and … Continued
Applications open for The Michael Mustill Scholarship
The Inn provides Internship Scholarships to support any Member of the Inn who has yet to secure an award of pupillage. The Michael Mustill Scholarship seeks to support those who have not yet secured pupillage, but are looking to undertake further study, an internship, or work placement in the field of Internal Dispute Resolution (ADR), … Continued
Donate your wigs and gowns
Bar Course Scholarships – Applications open
The Inn’s scholarships are available to all, irrespective of background, to support students to become barristers. If you receive a Bar Course Scholarship, you will receive a minimum award of £5,000 and further means-tested funding is available. Last year, we awarded 88 scholarships and our maximum award was £23,000. The merit assessment criteria are considered from … Continued
COIC Pupillage Match Funded Scheme
COIC welcomes applications for matched funding for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 pupillages. The COIC Pupillage Matched Funded Scheme (PMF) helps provide additional pupillages in Chambers, and other approved training organisations, predominantly engaged in legally aided work. Encouragingly, a growing number of Chambers are applying for COIC matched funded grants. COIC is set to support 33 pupillages … Continued
Judicial Appointments – August 2023
The Inn is delighted to note the Judicial appointment of the following Gray’s Inn Members in August 2023. Jeremy David Cook Jeremy David Cook has been appointed as Senior Master of the King’s Bench Division by the Lord Chief Justice, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. The Lord Chief Justice has assigned him … Continued