Category: Regular

New Starters Welcome to the new members of staff who have joined us over the past year. NameStart DateJob TitleThomas Holt04/08/2025SurveyorCallum Kroon23/04/2025Estates OfficerRichard Simpson17/01/2025Estates OfficerThomas...

Much of the activity of Middle Temple is charitable, most visibly through the provision of scholarships and awards to students and pupil barristers of about £1,000,000 a year. Many of us benefitted from those scholarships,...

Any organisation must adapt to its surroundings to survive, and this has never been more relevant and important in church music. Temple Church’s choir and musical tradition stretches back to the 12th Century, just after the...

Fergus Randolph KC and Belinda Ross 1 February 2025 CREDIT Chris Christodoulou Iona McLaren and Edward Devereux 1 March 2025 CREDIT Chris Allerton Nicholas Smith and Joanna Shaw 14 June 2025 CREDIT Steve Ryan

The following is a transcript of Master Harriet Walter’s speech from her Bench Call, which took place on Tuesday 26 November 2024.  Please bear with me: “My father had a daughter loved a man,  As it might be, perhaps,...

This is a transcript of Master David Stockdale’s Reading, delivered at Reader’s Feast on Wednesday, 13 November 2024. First and foremost, I would like to thank the Benchers and Members of Middle Temple for inviting me to serve...

Ana Sáez-Hidalgo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Renae Satterley (Middle Temple Library) From January to April 2025, Middle Temple Library featured an exhibition of rare books, one manuscript, and two items from the Archive,...

Survive and Thrive was set up by the Inn’s Membership Committee in 2015 to put on events aimed at supporting members of the Inn at all stages of their practice at the Bar.  The 2025 Survive and Thrive programme got off to...

Intro by Master Adrienne Page, Master of the Garden For last year’s Middle Templar, I interviewed the Inn’s Assistant Gardener, Fiona Packe, to mark her first full year working in our gardens under Head Gardener, Kate Jenrick....

Reader’s Feast | Certainty in the Law: certainty generally is an illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man (O.W Holmes) This is a transcript of Master Jonathan Mance’s Reading at Reader’s Feast on Wednesday 19 February...

The Library is incredibly grateful to the members of the Bar and academics for their generous book donations. Since the publication of the last Middle Templar, the Library received the following practitioner texts and legal...

The Council of the Inns of Court (COIC) welcomes applications for matched funding for 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 pupillages. The COIC Pupillage Matched Funded Scheme (PMF) helps provide additional pupillages in chambers and other...

I’m Christopher Bates, the 2025 Chair of the Hall Committee. If you’re newly Called, or perhaps unfamiliar with our work or remit, the Hall Committee represents the interests of all Called members of the Inn, unless they are...