☛ Why have you applied to study the BPTC at --- law school?

☛ Why do you want to be a barrister?

☛ Have you done any more mini-pupillages after you submitted your application form for the scholarship?

☛ What area of law do you want to practise in and why?

☛ Where do you want to work geographically and why?

☛ How did you become particularly interested in family law?

☛ Isn't what you want to do quite specific? (child care cases)

☛ What do you think about the recent divorce cases awarding so much money to a partner when marriage has only lasted 3 years?

☛ Tell us about one of your moots

☛ How would your friends describe you?

☛ How do you feel when other people disagree with you? Are you willing to listen to their side of the argument?

☛ Give us a two-minute potted history of your life, focusing on the high points

☛ Put forward three arguments in support of (and then against) a mother seeking a hysterectomy for her teenage, learning-disabled daughter.

☛ In pupillage interviews candidates may be asked to make a submission – such as a bail application or a plea in mitigation – with interviewers taking the role of a panel of judges