Bridging The Bar

A breakdown of the Bar

NUMBERS OF STUDENTS APPLYING FOR PUPILLAGE

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NUMBERS WHO SECURED PUPILLAGE (2020)

2,142 206

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Record number of aspiring barristers enrol on bar course’
Data obtained from the BSB (30 June 2020)
ETHNIC BREAKDOWN OF PUPIL BARRISTERS

WHITE BAME

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BSB statistics on BAME attainment: “Diversity at the Bar 2019’
Ethnic breakdown of BAME pupil barristers (2019)

Asian Mixed Ethnic background Black

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BSB statistics on BAME attainment: "Diversity at the Bar 2019"
Percentage of employed disabled people of working age

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percentage of disabled barristers (2019)

28 13

BSB statistics on BAME attainment: "Diversity at the Bar 2019"
Pupil barristers declaring their Educational background (educated in the UK)

Independent school State school

BSB statistics on BAME attainment: "Diversity at the Bar 2019"
Pupil barristers declaring their sexual orientation

Heterosexual LGBTQIA+

BSB statistics on BAME attainment: "Diversity at the Bar 2019"

Who we help

We are committed to increasing the equality of access to opportunities in the legal profession across all underrepresented groups. We help students who, owing to their disability, ethnic background, socio-economic background, education or sexuality, belong to groups which are statistically underrepresented in the profession.

Low Income Background

We help students who: a) are from a low-income household; b) are refugees; c) have spent more than 3 months in local authority care; or d) have experienced other socio-economic setbacks.
BAME

We help students from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds.
Disability

We help students who have a disability or long term health conditions.
LGBTQ+

We help students who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
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We help students who: a) attended state schools (non selective comprehensive) and are the first generation in their family to go to university; or b) had free schools meals from a state school/non selective comprehensive or c) were permanently excluded from school before completing secondary school.