18-Year-Old Youngest Ever Called to British Bar

Jonathan Whatley · Aug 1, 2013

Tom Whitehead said:

American student Gabrielle Turnquest was called to the Bar of England and Wales after passing her exams at just 18. […]

Gabrielle has already made history at her previous university, Liberty University in Virginia, where she was the youngest person to finish an undergraduate degree there, in psychology, at the age of 16.

If the youngster wanted to work as a barrister in the UK she would still have to carry out a pupillage at a chambers for at least a year and then be granted a tenancy.

Traditionally, a trainee lawyer had to be 21 to be eligible for the call to The Bar but that was scrapped in 2009 with the introduction of the Bar Training Regulations.
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Teenager becomes youngest person to be called to the Bar (Tom Whitehead, The Telegraph, London, July 30, 2013)

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