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WCWF 10th Anniversary Conference 7th November 2025

Women’s Forum – “Spring Forward” Seminar Series, March and May 2025

The Women's Forum next events are in March and May 2025, a series of online seminars designed to re-energise and reinvigorate your practice.  Open to all members of circuit.    ...

Butterfield Scholarships 2023 and 2024

Applications are invited from Circuit sets of Chambers for the Butterfield Scholarship for two extra pupillages in publicly funded work for two pupils starting in Autumn 2023 and Autumn 2024.Applications should be received by the Circuit Junior by...

Butterfield Scholarships 2021 and 2022

We're delighted to announce that following the recent round of applications, 2 Butterfield Scholarships have been awarded for 2021 and 2022 which will fund additional pupillages in publicly funded work, as follows: 2021 - KBG Chambers and 3PB...

Butterfield Scholarship 2021

Applications are invited from Circuit sets of Chambers for the Butterfield Scholarship for two extra pupillages in publicly funded work for two pupils starting in Autumn 2021. Applications should be received by the Circuit Junior by 4pm on Monday...

Western Circuit Report on Court Safety January 2021

We publish a report about the safety of courts on the Western Circuit - HERE . Thank you to the many barristers who responded to the request for information last week, to Piers Norsworthy of Devon Chambers who collated the responses, and all the...

IRAL Call for Evidence – Circuit Response

The Circuit submitted (October 2020) a response to the Call for Evidence from the Independent Review of Administrative Law which can be read HERE.  The question posed by the review was “Does judicial review strike the right balance between...