For the first time in its three year history, Pupillage Portal, which is rumoured to have been designed by Lord Neuberger during an hour-long introduction to the internet class, neither crashed under the weight of last-minute submissions nor malfunctioned and lost students’ work.
Both the Pupillage Rejection Thread and the #BPTC Twitter hashtag were eerily quiet as the deadline passed – a stark contrast to previous years, when rage-fuelled Bar students gathered on these and other forums to hurl abuse at those behind the journey back in time that is Pupillage Portal.
Comfortingly, a couple of errors were made as a nod to tradition. 9 – 12 Bell Yard was mistakenly advertised as recruiting for pupillages in 2012 rather than 2013, while the advert for Newcastle’s Trinity Chambers was so confusing that a notice had to be placed about it on the Pupillage Portal front page.