Barristers! 🆘 Are YOU a #barrister with an hour’s free time? Please can you come interview one of our disabled aspiring barristers? We are particularly looking for Civil, Commercial and Human Rights practitioners. Please share far & wide!

If anyone can help, just with one hour of your time, this is a very worthwhile cause!! #pupillage

The registrations for the BDABar Mock Pupillage Interview Scheme will shut this Thursday at 23:59. Don't miss your chance! forms.gle/CYj6jSFJbbKdE4…

We are looking for three more volunteers: two who specialise in crime and one in human rights. If you would like to help, please register below 😊

‘Guys, we have a recruitment and retention crisis in the care sector coupled with an ageing population. What shall we do?’ Absolutely no one: 👇🏼

We are happy to announce that we have offered mock pupillage interviews to everyone who applied. The BDABar Committee sincerely thanks the 28 barristers, pupils and future pupils who signed up to interview our candidates. #EDI #mockinterviews #disabledaspiringbarristers #Bar

WE ARE RECRUITING 🎉😊 The BDABar Schemes team is recruiting two volunteers to join the team and support BDABar with mini-pupillages, mentoring and mock interviews. Deadline to apply: 02/04/2024 bdabar.org/current-vacanc…

📢📢📢 PLEASE SHARE MISSING WIG AND GOWN My wig, gown and lovely wig tin have gone missing from the advocates room in St Albans Magistrates Court on 26/2/24. It was in a Gray's Inn black bag. If anyone has come across it or can help to return it I would appreciate that...

Sharing because legal Twitter rallied and helped me find my brooch... Please help get this gorgeous tin back! (Which is stunning so Emma Fielding please share where that is from! Although I'd love a plain wig tin to then paint myself)

Calls by World Health Organization (WHO) for greater attention to violence against women with disabilities and older women. Women with disabilities are 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 to suffer domestic abuse than non-disabled women AND experience abuse for 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿. #DisabledWomen #VAWG

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Our applications for the Schemes Officer position close on 31st May 2024!

Our Chair Konstantina Nouka is recruiting an Executive Assistant for her pupillage. This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in advancing their legal and/or administrative skills.

Ideal role for those residing in Reading (or near Reading). A fantastic opportunity for someone wanting to advance or pursue a legal, administrative, or personal support career.

In few weeks, my partner and I will be running/wheeling at the Oxford Town & Gown 10k race to raise awareness and funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK☺️ Therefore, it would mean the world if you could make a small donation: sportsgiving.co.uk/sponsorship/en…

Reminder that we are recruiting two Schemes Officers! Deadline to apply: 31/05/2024!

I will be commencing my pupillage very soon, and as part of my preparation, I need to get more data on the accessibility of Magistrates and Crown Courts. Thus, I would greatly appreciate your help with this task. How to assist? Simply fill out this form: forms.gle/txEu9uYV52FroS…

“Numerous rights that I had taken for granted now had to be fought for" - Chair of our Disability Panel Mark Henderson ♿ 💚 in Times Law talking about disability at the Bar. Also ft. Bringing (Dis)Ability to the Bar and a plug for Bar Council resources ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/law/article…

Shocked by the lack of courtroom accessibility, trainee barrister Konstantina (Konstantina Nouka), living with Ullrich MD, founded Bringing [Dis]Ability to the Bar (Bringing (Dis)Ability to the Bar). 🎓 She wants to improve access for disabled aspiring barristers. Read more: loom.ly/zDrA66Q

“I haven’t seen enough barristers who look like me – I’m changing that for others.” Thank you, Muscular Dystrophy UK, for interviewing me! Discussing access in the courts and my journey to the Bar was a cathartic experience.

Sam Flannery, from the BDABar Schemes team, shares his experience of handling a late diagnosis as a disabled aspiring barrister. He highlights the challenges he faced and what he has learned with the hope of assisting other people in similar positions: bdabar.org/blog-1-1/handl…