CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 1 MIDDLE TEMPLE MEMBERS’ GUIDE 2014/15 CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 2 THE TEMPLE WELCOME INNER TEMPLE LANE FLEET STREET Contacts Welcome to this third edition of the 1 BURNTON BUILDINGS GOLDSMITH BUILDING Middle Temple Members’ Guide, which 1A -1B 2 4 MIDDLE TEMPLE LANE i General Enquiries we have created to give you an overview 3 The Treasury Office of the services and facilities available to HARE COURT Ashley Building you as a Member, and to help you make TEMPLE CHURCH Middle Temple Lane the very most of what the Inn has to offer. London 4 BRICK CLOISTERS COURT Whether your interests lie in sponsoring 4A ESSEXi COURT5 ESSEX EC4Y 9BT PUMP COURT 9 DEVEREUXi COURT COURT T: 020 7427 4800 a student, hosting an event in our historic ESSEX COURT BRICK COURT CAR PARK buildings, dining with us, staying in our INNER TEMPLE F: 020 7427 4801 HALL PUMP COURT E: [email protected] overnight accommodation, joining our i 1 BRICK ELM COURT W: www.middletemple.org.uk fundraising programmes or one of our COURT LAMB 1 ESSEX BUILDING societies, or just obtaining contact details NEW COURT DEVEREUX CHAMBERSCOURT Estates for our departments, we hope you will find CROWN OFFICE ROW FOUNTAIN COURT T: 020 7427 4840 this Guide useful. CARPMAEL BUILDING i TUDOR STREET GATE E: [email protected] 35 ESSEX ST MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL If you are yet to become a Member, do FOUNTAIN COURT PLOWDEN Events use this Guide to get a sense of what the BUILDINGS GARDEN COURT T: 020 7427 4820 Inn offers you. Details of how to join are MIDDLE TEMPLE LANE HARCOURT BUILDINGS E: [email protected] just inside the back page. THE ASHLEY BUILDING AND LIBRARY Finance And if you are already a Member, we would BLACKSTONE HOUSE T: 020 7427 4800 very much like to hear from you; we actively E: [email protected] welcome your views on this publication and on anything relating to our activities at QUEEN ELIZABETH BUILDING 1&2 TEMPLE Middle Temple. Also, do feel free to get in GARDENS Library T: 020 7427 4830 touch with us, if we can be of any assistance. TE MPLE E: [email protected] P 3 TEMPLE L GARDENS A C E Security (24 hours) QEB CAR T: 020 7797 7768 PARK E: [email protected] MIDDLE TEMPLE GARDEN i MIDDLE TEMPLE Temple Church EMBANKMENT GATE T: 020 7353 8559 Guy Perricone INNER TEMPLE E: [email protected] Under Treasurer VICTORIA EMBANKMENT CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 4 CONTENTS Introduction Page History, Architecture and Gardens Page Introducing Middle Temple 5 Middle Temple Hall 25 An Overview of Benefits for Members 7 Bench Apartments 26 Middle Temple Gardens 27 Famous People and Treasures 28 The Temple and the Magna Carta 29 Temple Church 30 Specific Benefits and Page Joining and Information Page Today’s Middle Temple How to become a Member 32 Events & Dining 11 Useful Information Inside cover Your Career 13 Associations 15 Accommodation 19 Scholarship Fund Appeal 22 Hall Committee 23 CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 6 INTRODUCTION What follows is an introduction of two parts: to the Inn itself, and to the benefits of Membership. We trust it will be eye- opening and supportive – and enable you to make the very most of being a Middle Templar. INTRODUCING MIDDLE TEMPLE One of the four Inns of Court thousand members in the UK and across the world, we are also an active Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of worldwide network with much to offer Court in London that serve as the those who are part of our society. professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. Several centuries We constantly seek new avenues through ago, the Inns were buildings or precincts which to interest and engage with our where barristers traditionally lodged, Members and to widen opportunities for trained and carried on their profession. In public engagement: from taking part in time, these have reduced in number to the BBC’s Masterchef, to hosting the the present four, the other three Inns of Belgian International Olympic Court being: Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn Committee, and lending our treasured and Gray’s Inn. Molyneux Globes to the British Museum for an exhibition. Developing a thriving society Members are our raison d’etre Although Middle Temple is steeped in history and tradition, of which we are very Once a Member, we encourage you to proud, today we are a friendly and become actively involved in the Inn and forward-looking Inn. With over ten to make the most of the facilities available CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 8 to you, whatever your age or seniority, Our founding principles OVERVIEW OF MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS and wherever your career path leads you. Sometimes a gap can grow in the Inn’s The Inn’s estate on the banks of the Thames continuing relationship with its members, was provided by Letters Patent to ‘The We believe that the benefits of being a Career Support especially after initial qualification, and as Honourable Society of the Middle Temple’ Member of Middle Temple are rich and Members move away from London. We in 1608 – on condition that it would always varied. The rest of this Guide explains The Education and Training we offer our hope that this Guide – together with our be used for the joint objectives of and explores these in some depth – as Members, at all stages of their careers, website – can help to narrow such a gap. educating and accommodating those does our website. Here we give you a varies enormously, from residential By engaging in the life and work of the Inn, practising or training in the Law. Over four brief overview of what’s available to weekends, to Pupils’ courses, to whole you can play your part in ensuring that our hundred years later, Middle Temple’s core you as a Member, directing you to CPD days. We offer essay prizes, mooting society has a healthy future for generations purposes are still based on these founding where you can learn more, and competitions, and exchange trips to to come. (See pages 15 and 23.) principles. Namely: highlighting some useful details. faraway places such as Canada and India. • The education and training of students To learn more about the support we A focus on diversity and inclusivity and barristers (see page 13); and the Events & Dining provide – to students and more senior promotion of diversity and access to the professionals – go to page 13. We always look to ensure that under- Bar by the provision of financial support Our Events team puts on a wide array of represented groups are supported to students and all other means. events for Members and their guests to in their professional development. We enjoy throughout the year in the Associations and Activities interview every scholarship award • The maintenance of the Inn’s estate surroundings of our fabulous Elizabethan applicant. This is possible because of the and its historic heritage (see page 25); Hall, which is also where lunches and As a Member, you have the opportunity dedication of our Members who give their and the provision of professional dinners are served. (See page 10.) to join any of a wide range of Specialist time freely, and who contribute to our accommodation for barristers and Bar Associations (or SBAs). There are also Scholarship Fund Appeal. (See page 22) other facilities in support of the Inn’s To see our calendar of events, please go four ‘Inn Societies’ that give you the core purposes. to: www.middletemple.org.uk/inn- opportunity to become more closely A recent major initiative co-founded in calendar. involved specifically with our own 2011 by our first female Treasurer, Professor • The achievement of the highest activities at Middle Temple. (See page 15.) Dawn Oliver QC, and our former Under standards of advocacy in support of the As a Member, you are entitled to a Treasurer, Catherine Quinn, is the Temple judiciary and the rule of law; the promotion discount on room hire for personal and Also, overleaf we outline how you can Women’s Forum – established to support of the ethos of the Bar; and the chambers events at the Inn. For more become an Ambassador for the Inn. and inspire women at the Bar and in the maintenance of the highest professional details, contact the Events team on Judiciary throughout their careers. standards in the public interest. 020 7427 4820. CE 4140 Booklet make-up v6:Layout 1 9/10/14 4:00 PM Page 10 Accommodation relaxation area on the Gallery floor. For Merchandise An invitation for Ambassadors more details and for opening hours, We offer Members a wide range of during and outside term time, go to: The Treasury Office sells a wide variety of Middle Temple is seeking to recruit accommodation options – whether you are www.middletemple.org.uk/ merchandise, including cufflinks, pens, volunteer representatives around the looking to stay overnight, or for chambers library-and-archive. notebooks, port, wine, accessories, and world who are interested in representing from which to practise by day. For more books; these make either great gifts or the Inn – either within their chambers or details, go to the members’ section of the Members’ Common Room an ideal treat for any Member.