Some guidance on the Portal.

Thanks to the anonymous commenter, who kindly contacted the Bar Council, here's some guidance on how to use the mysterious pupillage portal:

Unlike in the previous season applications are submitted one Pupillage at a time to allow applications to be more tailored to individual chambers. As such on the new site you need to apply to your first pupillage and submit.

Once this has been submitted your application will return and allow you to apply to another chambers.

You will be able to tailor the sections ‘Your application details’, ‘Additional information/Covering letter’ and ‘Pupillage application questionnaire’ before submitting for your second choice. You can do this for up to a maximum of 12 providers.

The clearing form can either be filled in once you have applied to the 12 or after you have heard back about the 12 you applied to i.e. when the clearing round opens. Please note however once you have submitted your application for clearing it will not be possible to edit it.

As regards the form, chambers will be able to see your whole form at once so your answers should 'flow through'.