Outreach - Serle Court

Outreach to schools

Serle Court was the only set involved in the inaugural PowerUp Fest 2024, held in Regents Park, which we also supported in 2025. The organiser, Peppo, is a not-for-profit social enterprise that focuses on social mobility through inspiring disadvantaged students to network with professionals.

Chambers is involved with Oxbridge Prospects, a charity that identifies mentors and tutors and supports promising young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in gaining access to Oxbridge and Russell Group universities.

Members work with the Access Project, a charity that supports under-resourced young people to access top universities through a programme of mentoring, skills coaching and tuition.

Outreach to universities

Serle Court sponsors a range of University Law Societies by funding and judging essay prizes and by sponsoring and otherwise supporting mooting.

We are involved with universities including UCL, LSE, King’s College London, Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol, all of which have vibrant diversity initiatives of their own.

Our aim is to inspire and interest students in a career at the commercial Chancery Bar.

Outreach to students for the Bar

Serle Court participates in the Pegasus Access and Support Scheme (PASS), an annual Inner Temple initiative aiming to improve access to the Bar and to support high achieving students from under-represented backgrounds by providing experiences they need to be able to thrive at the Bar. This targets university students not yet on the Bar Training Course. We also participate in the Cayman Trainee Placement Scheme, which (at a later stage of training) enables trainee solicitors at Cayman firms to experience work and life at a London set.

Many of our barristers act as mentors to Bar, university and school students under the umbrella of schemes such as those run by COMBAR (the Commercial Bar Association), or the Social Mobility Foundation and Bridging the Bar.

One member of Chambers is taking part in the Bar Council’s reverse mentoring scheme, in which Black aspiring lawyers mentor White senior barristers.

10,000 Black Interns

Every year, Serle Court participates in the 10,000 Black Interns scheme, a programme aimed at expanding the horizons of young Black talent through paid internships across more than 25 sectors.

The scheme was set up in 2022 in response to the stark underrepresentation of Black talent in the founders’ industries. Initially, the group aimed to place 100 Black students and graduates in internship positions within investment management – a goal that was quickly eclipsed, with the aim now being 10,000 Black interns in five years.

Serle Court is part of the programme’s ‘Legal: The Bar’ offering, giving Black students and graduates the opportunity to gain insight into lives of barristers and providing them with invaluable skills should they wish to pursue a career at the Bar, or indeed any other facet of the legal industry. We first met one of our pupils when we were matched with them in this scheme.

Charitable causes

In addition to individual fundraising efforts by both members and staff, Serle Court supports charitable causes and events with the theme of Access to Justice or social inclusion.

For example, Serle Court annually fields a team for the London Legal Walk. The event is organised by The London Legal Support Trust, which supports a wide range of not-for-profit and legal organisations that provide access to justice for people who need it.

We also provide committed annual sponsorship to the Free Representation Unit.

LEADING SET:
UK Bar 2026

WINNER:
MENA Awards 2026 - English Bar in the Middle East: Commercial Set of the Year

WINNER:
Best Chambers for Work / Life Balance 2026

SHORTLISTED:
UK Bar Awards 2025 - Chancery Set of the Year

SHORTLISTED:
Bar Awards 2025 - Chancery Set of the Year

SHORTLISTED:
Chambers of the Year Award 2025

WINNER:
Bar Awards 2024 - Chancery Set of the Year

WINNER:
Middle East Awards 2024 - Middle East-Wide Dispute Resolution: Leading UK Barristers' Set

SHORTLISTED:
Bar Awards 2024 - Intellectual Property Set of the Year

SHORTLISTED:
Bar Awards 2024 - Commercial Litigation Set of the Year