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18 St John Street Chambers – Probationary Tenancy Vacancy (6 months)

Our personal injury, clinical negligence and costs department is looking for an ambitious individual who wants to quickly develop a practice in serious injury, clinical negligence or costs work. We are looking for people who are capable of building a successful practice in any of these areas.

The successful candidate can expect to have a busy and varied caseload, comprising of cases ranging from those allocated to the small claims track up to and including cases allocated to the multi-track. They will benefit from the support of more senior members of chambers for the duration of their probationary tenancy and beyond.

The successful candidate will be recruited with a view to tenancy.

How to apply:

Please send a CV and a covering letter by email to Emma Bowie, our Chambers Manager, at ebowie@18sjs.com.

Your covering letter should explain why you are interested in a probationary tenancy with 18 St John Street Chambers, and it should provide an outline of the experience you have gained during your pupillage to date.

All applications will be treated with confidence.

This vacancy is also advertised on the Bar Council website: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/18-st-john-street-chambers-no-deadline.html

18 St John Street Chambers are actively inviting applications from established practitioners due to our extremely busy and increasing workload. We are keen to attract established practitioners across all our departments.  Applications will be treated in strictest confidence and should be addressed to the Chambers Manager.

Business & Property:

At present, we are particularly keen to attract applications from established practioners to join our expanding Business and Property department as well as ambitious juniors with a demonstrative practice in the Business & Property courts.

Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence & Costs Department:

Our Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Costs department welcome applications to join our specialist team from those both with established practices and for those juniors looking to progress quickly into serious injury law, clinical negligence and costs.

Enquiries can be made in confidence to the Head of Recruitment Committee, Soria Kajue who will arrange for you to have an informal discussion with the head of the relevant team.

Applications (in confidence, by way of a letter and CV and giving details of two referees) should be addressed to Chambers Manager, Emma Bowie.

• • • Pupillage

  18 St John Street Chambers’ Pupillage programme is currently closed. Please check here later in the year for details of the next round.

18 St John Street has published its Diversity Data from the 2021 round of pupillage applications. The link can be found by clicking here.