Notes on PASS
2024/2025
The Pegasus Access and Support Scheme (PASS) is our flagship outreach programme. PASS is for aspiring barristers from underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds and is designed to give them contact with the profession through a mini-pupillage, contact with barristers and judges, and spending time at the Inn, as well as the provision of skills workshops. This year, we asked our 2024/25 PASS scholars to provide some feedback about their time on the programme.
Our Time on PASS
“The Honourable Society of The Inner Temple truly exemplifies inclusivity and welcomes people from all walks of life.”
“Extremely useful. Inspired a newfound confidence in me to pursue a career at the Bar and helped me understand that people who look like me, and who come from similar backgrounds, can be successful as an advocate.”
“The networking and practical skills that PASS has allowed me to strengthen have been invaluable – along with the fantastic, deep connections I’ve made along the way.”
“I think there’s a better than 50 per cent chance I wouldn’t have been offered pupillage without being involved in the PASS programme.”
We would like to thank the numerous barristers and judges who happily gave up their Saturdays and evenings to deliver skills workshops and panel discussions to encourage the next generation of aspiring barristers. Our thanks, too, go to our partner chambers who facilitate the scholars’ mini-pupillage placements. PASS would be nothing without you all.
“PASS has given me the confidence in my ability to pursue a career at the Bar. It has shown me and taught me things I otherwise wouldn’t have known, and given me the opportunity to develop further relationships with barristers/judges and even other scholars, who have been able to further the advice and support. Thank you so much!”
As a PASS scholar, I’ve gained invaluable insights, advocacy experience and friends for life, all of which have shaped my journey to the Bar. I hope PASS continues to be the foundation for many future barristers to come.”
“Incredibly valuable experience that offered me a chance I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to take to understand more about the profession.”
“Thank you for not just teaching me the skills to get to the Bar, but for making me believe someone like me can get there.”
