BACK TO THE FUTURE – NOT ROCKET SCIENCE: SOME THOUGHTS ON 20 YEARS OF CONSULTATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF THE BVC AND PUPILLAGE

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Frances Burton

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In the last two decades opportunities for exasperation in the vocational legal education constituency have been mounting as paper after paper has been published (and dutifully responded to by the various stakeholders) on reform of the Bar Vocational Course (“BVC”).  This has only recently been at least temporarily stemmed by the report of the newly created Bar Standards Board (“BSB”) on Deferral of Call in June 2007,1 albeit immediately followed by the announcement of further reviews of the BVC and pupillage.  This is not to mention a plethora of consultations and papers, which have gone before, including those earlier considered by the Standing Committee on Legal Education.

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