From the Treasurer
Welcome to the 2025 edition of Middle Templar. I hope you have all had some rest and relaxation over the summer. COIC has recently produced a review of the evidence on the topic of the timing of Call, so we...
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Temple Church Weddings 2025
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Read MoreFrom the Under Treasurer
After one of the Treasurer’s Lectures this year, I was chatting to one of the guests in the Hall and they remarked that ‘Middle Temple is really one enormous engine’. As well as thanking him for giving me my opening line...
Read MoreMaster Harriet Walter’s speech from her Bench Call
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,...
Read MoreReader’s Feast | Crime and Punishment: why do we punish offenders?
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...
Read MoreSpanish Connections at Middle Temple
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,...
Read MoreSurvive and Thrive Programme
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...
Read MoreCommemorating 80 Years Since the End of the Second World War in the Kitchen Garden
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....
Read MoreLent Reader 2025
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...
Read MoreBook Donations to the Library
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...
Read MoreThe COIC Matched Funding Scheme
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...
Read MoreHall’s Well at the Inn: A look at Middle Temple’s Hall Committee
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...
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