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ICLR Pupillage Award 2025
If you are taking up pupillage at any time between October 2025 and October 2026, and being paid a total for the pupillage year (including guaranteed earnings) of no more than £37,500 (in London) or £32,500 (outside London), you could receive our top-up award of a further £13,000. To find out more click here
A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts, seeking justice for environmental wrongs. At the forefront of this movement, pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for people, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species.
In A Barrister for the Earth, Feria-Tinta takes us behind the scenes of ten real cases as she argues against the destruction of cloud forests and for sovereign states to account for inaction. Each of these are landmarks signalling that we are at an important juncture, in which the law can be a powerful tool for the lasting change.
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Easter Closure times
Middle Temple will be closed from 14:00 hrs on Thursday 17 April and reopen on Tuesday 22 April.
The Garden Room will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Hall Lunch will be closed from Good Friday and will reopen on 29 April.
Middle Temple Library will be closed from 14:00 on Thursday 17 April and will reopen on Tuesday 22 April at 9:00.
The 2025 Music Night season at Middle Temple opened to universal acclaim. The prize-winning pianist Irena Radić played a virtuosic programme of Rachmaninoff, Debussey and Chopin. The format was one we are used to: a formal dinner in Hall with an hour’s recital after grace. The audience would have kept her for multiple encores but were eager to meet her over a drink, or coffee in the Prince’s Room.
The next Music Night, on Monday 19 May, is completely different. First, it is a Qualifying Session. I am very grateful to Benet Brandreth KC who will speak about the use of rhetoric in courtroom advocacy. The talk is directed to student members, but everyone is welcome to attend. Secondly, following the talk, we will have drinks all together in the bench apartments. Benchers, members, students and guests will all be able to mix and chat to each other. The dress code is not the usual formal dining dress code, but instead, smart casual. We will then move into Hall where the fabulous London Dance Orchestra will play during dinner, and then will up the tempo after dinner for dancing (for those who feel so inclined). The London Dance Orchestra are the resident band at the Ritz Hotel in London and play every Sunday night at the Ned. They are superb and I warmly encourage you to attend. The evening will finish by 22:30.
In July we change the format again. On Monday 14 July we will have one of the best known UK-based ensembles playing two giants of the chamber music repertoire. First, the quartet from the Nash Ensemble will play Haydn’s Quartet No.1, Opus 77, and then, if that were not enough, they will end the recital with Schubert’s Death and the Maiden. The recital will take place before dinner and will be open not only to members of the Inn and their guests, but also members of the other Inns and their guests. The dress code will be smart casual. After the recital, for members of Middle Temple and their guests only, there will be supper served in the Bench Apartments. The supper will be more informal than the usual fare offered in Hall and we will be serving Bench Wine to all attendees. The tickets will therefore be offered for the recital alone, or for the recital and dinner, and will be priced accordingly. There are only about 70 spaces available for supper and so early booking is well advised as the recital is likely to be sold out.
Finally, in November, we will try the last of this year’s trial formats: a promenade concert, drinks and food, in the library. I will release further details in due course, but please think about adding the date to your diary now to listen to the Intesa Duo who will play their bass viols and sing a varied programme spanning several hundred years of repertoire. The promenade concert will take place on Monday 24 November.
It is impossible to cater for every member’s individual musical tastes in just four events a year. However, the range of performers and the different formats of the 2025 Music Nights should provide everyone with an opportunity to come together with fellow members of Middle Temple, to chat, to listen, and to enjoy fabulous music. I very much hope to see you at the remaining Music Nights this year.
Robert-Jan Temmink KC
Master of the Music
For years, Middle Temple has been involved in the Four Jurisdictions Annual Conference. Starting back in the 1980s, as part of the Inn’s historical bond with Ireland, the conference has since grown and now meets every year in turn in Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh and London.
This year, the Four Jurisdictions Law Conference will be held in Dublin from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May.
It is an opportunity to strengthen the valuable relationship between the four legal and judicial systems and to discuss comparable challenges involving the independence of counsel, funding of respective legal aid systems, as well as priorities such as diversity, regulation and the promotion of the profession.
The conference will begin with a drinks reception in the Sheds Bar starting at 19:00 on Friday 16 May in the Distillery Building, Dublin 7. On Saturday 17 May, attendees will be treated to four panel discussions in the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre featuring renowned judges and practitioners from the four jurisdictions, followed by dinner in the King’s Inns.
For further information, please contact fourjurisdictionsdublin2025@gmail.com.
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