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Law student wins prestigious scholarship
A University of Portsmouth law student who was determined to be among the very few law graduates who become barristers has won a £7,000 scholarship enabling her to do just that
Imogen Annison, 23, from Portsmouth, is only the second person in her family to go to university. She graduated this summer with a 2:1 LLB Law with Business degree.
Annison has spent the past three years studying at Portsmouth Business School and now, thanks to winning the scholarship, will be able to afford to spend the next two years studying for the Bar Professional Training Course in London.
Once she has finished, she still has another mountain to climb before she can represent clients in court, but she is on her way.
Annison won the Harmsworth
Scholarship, awarded by the Middle Temple.
She said: “By taking part in advocacy training, mooting and meeting many different people in the legal profession, I worked out early on that the bar is where I belonged.
“I have shown through my extra- curricular activities and work within the Law Society that I have the right qualities to succeed at the bar and I believe that I won for demonstrating my determination to succeed and stopping at nothing to make my aspiration of becoming a barrister a reality.“
Winning the scholarship has also boosted her confidence.
“By doing the bar course part- time, I will be able to gain more experience in the legal profession and build my professional network. Once I’ve finished that course I will then need to complete pupillage, which usually takes a year, and then find tenancy to become a fully-qualified barrister.“
Annison is the first person in her family to study law and she and her brother Jacob, who graduated last summer with a physical geography degree, are the first in their family to go to university.
High-flier Imogen Annison has won scholarship allowing her to continue her studies
“Winning has given me extra confidence in my abilities and qualities to enter such a competitive and respected profession,“ she said.
Her tutor Bernard Davis said: “Imogen has worked hard on her advocacy at Portsmouth and realised that she could make it as a professional advocate. She was advocacy captain and has done a lot to encourage others in advocacy. She has made a great start on her career, earning a valuable scholarship from Middle Temple in London, and leaves Portsmouth with our best wishes for the future.“
Details: University of Portsmouth
www.port.ac.uk/law
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