Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)

I've totally neglected this blog since I got back to the UK and started the BPTC, but I decided to try and get back on it.

Given that the BPTC started in September and it's now almost April, it's too late for a blow-by-blow account of what it's actually like the do the course, but I'll try and do retrospective summaries of what the various modules were like, because that would have been very useful for me to have had before I started the course.

For now, I have to say the course has been extremely enjoyable. It's vastly different to doing a degree in Law. The BPTC is far more practical than the degree. That's almost a non sequitur because the degree didn't involve any level of practicality whatsoever, it was basically entirely academic. On the BPTC you have to use the law, it's the tool with which you work, but whereas in the LLB reeling off a long list of cases or statutes got you through, on the BPTC what really counts is how you actually use that law, and for many people that's quite a challenge.

Personally, I love it, because actively solving a practical problem using the law is far more interesting than reading reading reading endless cases with nothing really coming from it in the end.

Anyway, if you plan on doing the BPTC you'll need meaty forearms to handle the numerous heavy books we get given, so you should click on the link below and buy a pair of Fat Gripz.

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