Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple and Gray's Inn (to place them in their customary order) are ancient unincorporated bodies of lawyers which for 5 centuries and more have had the power to Call to the Bar those of their members who have duly qualified for the rank or degree of Barrister-at-Law
One must be a member of one of these Inns to practise at the English Bar.
It was being urged that students ought to receive a comprehensive legal education and that there should be uniformity of practice of call to the Bar. In 1852 the Council of Legal Education was established. Twenty years later the examination for the Call to the Bar was introduced. The council was first housed in Lincoln's Inn but following the Second World War moved to Gray's Inn and later expanded further into Atkin Building as the Inns of Court School of Law.
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