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CORONAVIRUS
Chambers remains open, and our barristers continue to accept instructions. Our staff are working from home - please contact us by email at clerks@5pumpcourt.com in the first instance or use the direct lines shown in their profiles. After 5.30pm please call 07976 368031. Thank you for your patience.
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Contact details
The easiest way to contact our clerks is by email at clerks@5pumpcourt.com or by telephone. Please call our family clerks on 020 7632 7852 or 020 7632 7851; our civil clerk on 020 7632 7862 and our criminal clerk on 020 7632 7853. After 5.30pm please call 07976 368031.
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Equal Opportunities
Chambers’s Equality Policy is applied when considering all applications.
Tenancy Applications
5 Pump Court is a busy and long-established common law set with enviable financial stability.
Due to a significant surplus of work and a desire to expand, we are looking for high quality practitioners across all of our core areas of expertise: Civil, Crime and Family.
Applications are invited from established Civil practitioners, and across all levels of call from Criminal and Family practitioners.
Applications should be made by way of a CV and covering letter to recruitment@5pumpcourt.com
Alternatively please speak to our Chambers Director in confidence.
Twelve-month Pupillage
5 Pump Court is a successful common law set of chambers with three main practice teams: Criminal, Civil and Family. We are a friendly set and aim to make pupillage an instructive and enjoyable experience in which our pupils see a variety of work. To facilitate that, pupils will normally have three supervisors during the year.
Chambers is a member of the Pupillage Gateway. Please read the Pupillages Handbook or visit www.pupillagegateway.com. for further information about how to apply for a twelve-month pupillage at 5 Pump Court.
This year, 5 Pump Court seeks to recruit one pupil who can demonstrate a genuine desire to undertake pupillage in a common law chambers and one pupil who wishes to specialise in Crime.
Chambers will consider any application made for flexibility within pupillage. Applications are considered on an individual basis. If you wish to make an application for flexibility, please contact our Director on a confidential basis on 020 7353 2532 or at clarekelly@5pumpcourt.com
Third Six Pupillage
We are actively recruiting for one or more Third Six pupils to cover a surplus of family work in relation to public and private law children cases, matrimonial finance and domestic abuse injunctions. Third six pupils can expect to be in court every day.
Please apply by sending a letter of application to Rebecca Foulkes with a CV, copy of your last 3 months' work diary and any references that you may have available. Please use the following email address: rebeccafoulkes@5pumpcourt.com
Applications will be kept confidential.
Successful candidates will be selected on merit and in accordance with our equality and diversity policy.
This opportunity is also advertised at: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/careers/third-six-vacancies-and-best-practice/
Mini pupillage
A maximum of four one-week mini-pupillages will be offered each year and will take place during the summer.
Applicants must be either an undergraduate or graduate.
The application form and equal opportunities monitoring form should be completed and submitted between the 1st and the 31st December each year either by post or email to rebeccafoulkes@5pumpcourt.com
Due to the volume of applications it is regretted that applications received outside this period will not be acknowledged or considered.
Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February.
A mini-pupillage is not a pre-requisite for pupillage but may assist a future application.
5 Pump Court
Temple, London
EC4Y 7AP
Document Exchange
LDE 497 Chancery Lane
Hours
8.30 am until 7.00 pm
Urgent out-of-hours
07976 368031
