Scholarships
Scholarships are available to all, irrespective of background, to support and encourage students to become barristers. Most of these awards are for those undertaking their Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), and the remainder go to those in their CPE/GDL and/or pupillage years.
 
For the year 2009, Gray's Inn gave in excess of £795,000 in scholarships, awards and prizes. These have been and will continue to be awarded on merit. Below is a summary of all scholarships, awards and prizes offered by Gray’s Inn:

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For full details on all Gray's Inn scholarships, awards & prizes (including deadlines, number of awards given and amounts awarded) please visit the relavant sections from the menu on the left or download our latest scholarship handbook:
 
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Hard copies are also available in person at the Education Department.
 
General factors applied when considering applications are:
  • academic achievement and intellectual ability
  • extra-curricular achievement, work experience and involvement in mooting and debating (including, for the pupillage scholarships and internship funding, any participation in Inn activities)
  • other indicators of potential for successful practice at the Bar
  • financial circumstances.

 

For full details regarding the application process, references and general conditions for applicants & scholars please visit the Conditions for Applicants & Scholars section.


Equal Opportunities
The Inn's Equal Opportunities policy is applied to applicants for all scholarships, awards, internship funding and prizes and includes the following:
 
“This Society, in common with the other Inns, is committed to a policy of fairness and equality of opportunity without
discrimination on grounds of race, ethnic origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or political persuasion
or, from October 2006, age (‘prohibited grounds’). The Society will have regard to the needs of disabled persons and
will comply with such provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and of Regulations and Codes made under it
as may be in force from time to time and which apply to them.”
 
A complete copy of the Inn's Code, and of the complaints procedure, is available on request from the Director of Education.
 
Application Forms
Please visit the relevant section from the menu on the left to download the appropriate scholarship application form.
 
Contacts
Application forms and references are to be sent to

Quinn Clarke, Director of Education
Education Department
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
8 South Square
London
WC1R 5ET

Applicants are encouraged to submit typed applications using the application forms which can be downloaded from the relevant links on the left.
  • Applicants submit applications separately and
  •  Referees should submit references directly.

For any queries please contact:
Kyri Savva, Education Officer                        
020 7458 7951                
kyri.savva@graysinn.org.uk                 
Juliet Harrison, Registrar
020 7458 7808
juliet.harrison@graysinn.org.uk

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please note that candidates may apply for a scholarship/award to one Inn only. Multiple applications are not allowed, and the Inns circulate one another with a list of applicants for all scholarships and awards. Successful applicants must have joined that Inn and no other if the money is to be paid. Candidates may apply to the Inn for more than one scholarship or award in any one year, but, with the exception of awards made on the basis of performance in the BPTC, will not be granted more than one scholarship or award in any one year.

ANY STUDENT WHO MAKES A MULTIPLE APPLICATION TO THIS AND ANY OTHER INN, OR WHO JOINS ANOTHER INN, WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO THE GRANT OF A SCHOLARSHIP OR AWARD FROM THIS INN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RULE APPLIES TO ALL FOUR INNS.