The Bar Council is to enforce a pupil hiring closed season in a bid to stop chambers pinching each other’s recruits.The move is part of a package of measures that are designed to revitalise the Bar’s faltering PACH (Pupil Applications Clearing House) scheme.
PACH, which was founded in 1996, was designed to bring order to the chaotic pupillage selection system.
But little more than half of chambers currently subscribe to the system, leaving them vulnerable to having their recruits poached by non-PACH chambers.
