Business Lawyer Question:

☛ Why have you applied to study the BPTC at --- law school?
☛ Why do you want to be a barrister?
☛ Have you done any more mini-pupillages after you submitted your application form for the scholarship?
☛ What area of law do you want to practise in and why?
☛ Where do you want to work geographically and why?
☛ How did you become particularly interested in family law?
☛ Isn't what you want to do quite specific? (child care cases)
☛ What do you think about the recent divorce cases awarding so much money to a partner when marriage has only lasted 3 years?
☛ Tell us about one of your moots
☛ How would your friends describe you?
☛ How do you feel when other people disagree with you? Are you willing to listen to their side of the argument?
☛ Give us a two-minute potted history of your life, focusing on the high points
☛ Put forward three arguments in support of (and then against) a mother seeking a hysterectomy for her teenage, learning-disabled daughter.
☛ In pupillage interviews candidates may be asked to make a submission – such as a bail application or a plea in mitigation – with interviewers taking the role of a panel of judges