Training to be a Barrister | What you must know about BPTC

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Barrister Aiman R. Khan shares his experience on Bar Professional Training Course in UK.

What is BPTC??
The Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) is an important step on the way to becoming a barrister, fulfilling the vocational element of Bar training. During a one-year, full-time course you'll learn practical skills and gain knowledge of procedure, as well as attending sessions with your Inn of Court.

The BPTC is currently one of the most expensive legal courses in Europe. It is a heavily loaded course. The content you will cover is not necessarily THAT complex but getting your head around the different concepts to do with litigation procedure early in the course will make revising and retaining that information for the exams a lot easier.

Why should you do the BPTC?
BPTC is a highly intensive course designed to equip a law student with all the essentials in order to become a Barrister. Any student having an LLB degree from UK with the required QLD, they can qualify for the course. The BPTC is now called Barrister's Training Course and there has been a change in its selection procedure.

I am Advocate Aiman R. Khan and I have taken the bptc course in Northumbria University. BPTC is Bar Professional Training Course. As you know there are two types of lawyers in the United Kingdom, one is solicitors and another is barristers. The bar professional training course is designed to equip law students with the required skills in order to become barristers. The bar professional training course consists of 12 modules in the course. In these 12 subjects, half of them were practical and the other half were theoretical. In the 12 subjects, three of them are called centralized subjects and these centralized subjects are taken by the bsb itself while the other subjects are examined by the universities. The centralized subjects are civil litigation, criminal litigation and professional ethics. These are the theoretical subjects and procedural subjects.

In civil advocacy, we're told to make skeleton arguments and to prepare submission in writing in order to present that same thing in the court in the way of a lawyer, how a lawyer is supposed to present the case in front of the court. So it was quite challenging. I'm not that good in public speaking, but i used to struggle a bit in the initial days. But i quite learned a lot of things especially because of the fact that the teachers used to encourage us to present in front of the other students so that they can learn and i can learn from them. So this quite helped me. This civil advocacy subject quite helped me in a way that i largely prepared myself to be in the courtroom among other lawyers and to properly present my case in front of the court.

In conferencing module the teacher showed us the appropriate way how to speak to the client how to be so humble or how to be more cordial to your client in order to get the required information to make your case.

The subject of criminal practice is quite similar to civil advocacy uh but instead of the civil procedure we use the criminal procedure here in criminal practice there were two parts one was examination chief and one was cross-examination so it was quite interesting in a way that you get to learn the actual ways how to cross-examine a witness in the witness box the cross-examination really you know boosted me with all the you know skills and the tactics how to get information out or to make or for example in cross examination chief how to you know make the witness say all the events of the case and uh to present a really good case in front of the judge so i would say it was very very you know enlightening it was very productive and it changed us a lot.

so anyone wanting to come to uk to pursue this course would have to get the minimum requirement of uh 2-2 or which is 2-1 i think at the moment which is a qld a qualifying law degree of the llb honors course and you have to have an ielts band score of 7.5 or more than that or if you have an olive oils or a levels it will be quite helpful for you you will get an offer from any of the universities if you apply uh most of the universities uh they they tend to take quite a lot of students but uh it's quite challenging though that was it for today and so thank you so much for watching peace

00:00 - Intro
01:51 - What is BPTC
02:40 - Civil Advocacy
03:29 - Conferencing
03:46 - Criminal Practice
04:37 - Challenges of BPTC
06:42 - My Experience
07:25 - Qualifying Sessions
08:22 - How to qualify for BPTC