The 2025 course will take place from Tuesday 26th August until Saturday 30th August 2025 (concluding at 17.00hrs)
The Criminal Bar Association are once again offering funding for up to five of their members practising as Barristers in publicly funded work covering the cost of attending The South Eastern Circuit, Tim Dutton CBE KC, Advanced International Advocacy Course 2025.
To apply for a scholarship from the CBA for the 2025 course, please complete both the course application form and CBA scholarship form and submit to [email protected].
The Course Format and Applications:
The aim of this course is to encourage and develop the highest standards of advocacy amongst practitioners in England & Wales. The course is the most demanding and intensive of any advocacy course in the UK and is widely said to be the best advocacy course in the world.
To qualify for the course, you must be a practising member of the Bar, over three years’ call and post NPP at the time of attending the course. We should also make it clear that the course is not just for junior barristers. There is no upper limit on year of call. Senior practitioners of 10 years call and above regularly join the course and occasionally Silks also. Some are returning to practice following career breaks for various reasons.
Previous courses have been accredited by the Bar Standards Board (includes 33 CPD hours, 9 Advocacy hours).
The course takes place at Keble College, Oxford and participants must attend each day of the course.
Download the Course Application Form