Inns of Court
Legal training societies
The Inns of Court are four legal societies in London that have the exclusive right to call candidates to the English bar—that is, to admit them as barristers.
Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Inner Temple, and Middle Temple date to medieval times and continue to provide professional training, dining halls, libraries, and chambers for barristers.
The term also refers to the physical complexes these societies occupy.
Formal event marking occasions
oath · seniority · formality · convocation · moot · toast · decorum · gown
Enclosed functional rooms
- counselExpert guidance offered
- silkFine woven insect fiber
- QCStandards verification process
- KCTwo-letter city code
junior · briefs · advocacy · tenancy · clerks · robing · pleadings · opinions
Named religious structure
- Lincoln's InnLondon barristers' society
- Fleet StreetBritish journalism metonym
- StrandHistoric London avenue
- City of LondonLondon's original walled settlement
Blackfriars · Thames · gardens · quad · gatehouse · chapel · hall · library
Building design discipline
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- gardensCultivated planting areas
Pegasus · griffin · preservation · history · landmark · restoration · monument · bomb damage
Funds awarded for study
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
benchers · oath · seniority · formality · convocation · moot · toast · decorum · gown · wig
chambers
Enclosed functional rooms
KC · junior · briefs · advocacy · tenancy · clerks · robing · pleadings · opinions · gown
Temple
Named religious structure
- Lincoln's InnLondon barristers' society
- Fleet StreetBritish journalism metonym
- StrandHistoric London avenue
City of London · Blackfriars · Thames · gardens · quad · gatehouse · chapel · hall · library
architecture
Building design discipline
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
gardens · Pegasus · griffin · preservation · history · landmark · restoration · monument · bomb damage · rebuilding
scholarships
Funds awarded for study
- legallawyer, judge, jury, trial, verdict
- English Lawbarristers, solicitors, solicitor, Old Bailey, writ
- British lawEnglish law, Scottish law, barrister, solicitor, barristers
- British legalbarrister, solicitor, QC, KC, defence counsel
- Early TheaterShakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, Globe Theatre, Marlowe, morality plays
- law school groupsmock trial, law review, legal aid, law journals, student bar
court, courts, courtyard, courtship, courthouse, Gray's Inn, courtly, inns, courtroom