Call Nights
Hilary Term Call Night
Thursday 23 March
Trinity Term Call Night
Thursday 27 July
Deferred Trinity Term Call Night
Thursday 12 October
Michaelmas Term Call Night
Thursday 23 November
The Reader’s Lecture Series
Date Lecturer Title
13 February The Rt Hon The Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO, Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
1988-1998
6 March Professor Timothy Endicott, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, and Inner Temple Bencher
Politics and the Law
2 October
14 November The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve KC, Conservative MP 1997-2019, Attorney General for England and Wales 2010-2014
The Executive and the Courts in the Constitution
Wales and Chester Circuit Dinner (Cardiff) 25 Education Day
27 International Practice Panel (Hybrid)
28 Estates Committee
Employed Bar Forum: Panel Discussion and Reception (Hyrbid)
March
4
Bar Course Scholarship Interviews
Reader’s Lecture Night (Hybrid) (Professor Timothy Endicott)
Bar Course Scholarship Interviews (Online)
Inns of Court Alliance for Women: Panel Discussion and Reception (moved to 21 March)
Bar Course Scholarships Interviews
Bar Liaison Committee
Executive Committee Dinner to the Universities Amity
Circuits Forum
Mothering Sunday Lunch
Hilary Term Call Night
Circuit Education Day (Leeds)
Qualifying Sessions Committee
In Focus (Hybrid)
Benchers’ Night
Circuit Education Day (Liverpool)
Bar Liaison Committee
Executive Committee
Hilary Term Law Sittings End
Hall Closes
Hall Opens
Easter Term Law Sittings Begin
Books Sub-Committee
Scholarships and Outreach Committee
Qualifying Session and Education & Training Events
Outreach Events
Glossary of Outreach Events
In Focus
A roundtable event that explores specific issues in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and access to the profession. Open to Members and Masters of the Bench to attend.
Dinner for Legal Academics
Open to Members and Masters of the Bench to attend.
Please email outreach@innertemple.org.uk to find out more about the Inn’s outreach activities.
Qualifying Session Events
Information on each term’s events will be published in the Term Notice and on innertemple.org.uk/events.
Glossary of Qualifying Session terms
Spotlight On
The ‘Spotlight On’ events will focus on practical advice on pupillage in different practice areas.
EDI Series An event that explores specific issues in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Ethics in Practice
Student’s Residential Advocacy Weekend
An interactive discussion on a variety of ethics scenarios.
The Inn hosts three student advocacy weekends a year. The weekends offer the chance to practise advocacy skills, as well as an opportunity to hear from high profile speakers and experts in the topic under discussion.
Education Day Three sessions, each covering a separate theme:
a) Advocacy Training Session
b) EDI at the Bar Talk
c) Ethics Training
Circuit Education Day
Three sessions, available to Circuit Students, each covering a separate topic:
a) Advocacy Talk/Masterclass
b) CV Review & Mock Pupillage Interview
c) EDI at the Bar Talk
Bookings
Please book on innertemple.org.uk/events Members Events
Team on 020 7797 8264 or members@innertemple.org.uk.
Online events will close three working days prior to the event. Bookings for in-person events will close five working days prior to the event.
Dress Code
Unless otherwise stated the dress code for Qualifying Sessions is lounge suits, no gowns.
Non-Qualifying Session Events
Full details of all events will be publicised on term notices, innertemple.org.uk/events and in Innerview.
Bookings for all non-qualifying session events will close seven working days prior to the event.
Call to the Bar: Call Nights
(Lounge suits, gowns)
Drinks are available for Benchers from 5.15pm. The Hilary Call ceremony will be held in the Treasury Building. The Trinity, Deferred Trinity and Michaelmas Call ceremonies are held in the Temple Church. Call ceremonies starts at 6.00pm and are followed by a champagne reception. The evening usually ends by 8.30pm.
Bookings
Contact Tiffany-Rochelle Louis-Byfield at tlouis-byfield@innertemple.org.uk on 020 7797 8257.
Grand Day
(The dress and format for Grand Day will be advertised nearer the time)
Bookings
Masters of the Bench: Reply slips are sent out approximately six weeks before the event and Benchers should complete and return them, or contact the Member Events Team on members@innertemple.org.uk, or via innertemple.org.uk/events.
Members of Hall and Students: innertemple.org.uk/events or contact the Member Events Team in the Treasury Office on 020 7797 8264.
Private Guest Nights (Black tie)
A champagne reception followed by dinner for Benchers, Members of Hall, Students, and their guests.
There are three Private Guest Nights. Benchers may bring one guest. Members of Hall and Students may bring more than one guest subject to capacity.
Bookings
Contact the Member Events Team on 020 7797 8264, members@innertemple.org.uk or innertemple.org.uk/events.
Benchers’ Nights (Black tie)
A champagne reception and dinner to which Benchers may bring their spouse, partner, or other guest. There are three Benchers’ Nights each year.
Amity Dinner at Other Inns (Black tie)
Bookings
Reply slips are sent out approximately six weeks before the event and Benchers should complete and return them or contact the Member Events Team on members@innertemple.org.uk
Dinner following Bench Table (Lounge suits)
This dinner, usually held after the first Bench Table of the year, will follow a Bench Table later in the year. It is open to all Governing Benchers.
Bar Guest Night (Black tie)
A champagne and canapé reception followed by dinner and entertainment for Benchers, Members of Hall, and their guests.
Bookings
Contact the Member Events Team on 020 7797 8264, members@innertemple.org.uk or innertemple.org.uk/events.
Sunday Lunch (Smart)
1. Mothering Sunday Lunch
2. Remembrance Sunday Lunch
Open to all members and their guests.
Lunch is a two course carvery buffet, similar to weekday lunch, with no seating plan.
Bookings
Contact the Member Events Team on 020 7797 8264, members@innertemple.org.uk or innertemple.org.uk/events.
3. Middle Temple Sunday Lunch
On Sundays when Middle Temple is holding a Lunch, members of The Inner Temple may book to attend.
18 June (Father’s Day)
Bookings
Contact Rachel Pydiah at Middle Temple on 020 7427 4820 or r.pydiah@middletemple.org.uk.
Temple Church
Opening Times
For opening times and all Church information go to www.templechurch.com.
Services
Thursday: Holy Communion (said) is celebrated at 1.15pm and ends at approximately 1.45pm.
Sunday: Holy Communion (said) is celebrated at 8.30am.
Choral Mattins or Choral Communion begin at 11.15am on Sundays except on Remembrance Day when assembly is by 10.50am.
Weekday services of Choral Evensong are held every Wednesday in term time at 6pm, unless otherwise stated for special occasions.
The Easter Vigil service is held at 8.00pm.
Midnight Choral Communion on Christmas Eve is held at 11.15pm.
The services of the Book of Common Prayer (1662) are used.
Dining Customs and Procedures for Masters of The Bench
Guests
1. The Treasurer alone may invite guests to Grand Day.
2. Benchers may introduce to dine on a Private Guest Night, a guest who has attained the age of 18, who is not their spouse or partner, who is not a member of The Inner Temple practising as a Barrister in England or Wales (this rule may be waived with the prior agreement of the Treasurer), and who is not a Student of any of the Inns of Court.
3. Guests will be seated near to their host.
4. There is no limit to the number of Private Guest Nights which a Master of the Bench may attend.
5. A Master of the Bench may introduce their spouse or partner as a guest to dine on Benchers’ Night. There is no limit to the number of Benchers’ Nights which a Master of the Bench may apply to attend; where, however, a Benchers’ Night is over-subscribed, priority will be given to Masters of the Bench who have not attended an earlier Benchers’ Night in the same calendar year.
The Master of the Bench who is to take the chair
6. At dining events, if the Treasurer and Reader are both absent, the Senior Bencher present shall take the chair, even if they are no longer a Governing Bencher.
Duties of the Junior Master of the Bench at Dinner
7. When there is to be the Loyal Toast, the procedure shall be as follows: Master Treasurer: “Master (the Junior Master of the Bench present), the King”. All those present rise. The junior Master of the Bench present: “Master Treasurer, the King”. All those present: “The King”.
Committee Information Committees
Secretaries
Advocacy Training Committee Education Programme Manager (Pupils & New Practitioners)
Archives Committee Archivist
Bar Liaison Committee Director of the Treasury Office
Bencher Nomination Committee Sub-Treasurer
Bench Table Sub-Treasurer
Church Committee Under-Treasurer of Middle Temple
Circuits Liaison Membership Registrar
Education & Training Committee Director of Education
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee Head of the Sub-Treasurer’s Office
Estates Committee Director of Properties & Surveyor
Executive Committee Sub-Treasurer
Finance Sub-Committee Collector
International Committee Head of the Sub-Treasurer’s Office
Investment Sub-Committee Collector
Library Committee Librarian
Pegasus Scholarships Trust Pegasus Trust Co-ordinator
Pension Scheme Trustees Collector
Qualifying Sessions Committee Education Programme Manager (Pre-Pupillage)
Student Engagement & Support Committee Education Engagement Co-ordinator
Scholarships & Outreach Committee Outreach & Scholarships Manager
Treasurer Nomination Committee Sub-Treasurer
Inner Temple Addresses
Treasury Office Treasury Building
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7HL
Education & Training Department Treasury Building
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7HL
Catering Department Treasury Building
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7HL
Library Treasury Building
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7HL
Surveyor’s Department
Third Floor
6 King’s Bench Walk
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7DR
Collector’s Department
Third Floor
6 King’s Bench Walk
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7DR
Temple Church Office
1 Inner Temple Lane
Inner Temple
London EC4Y 7AF