18 year-old called to the Bar this week
An 18 year-old has become the youngest person in the history of the English and Welsh legal system to be called to the Bar.
New barrister Gabrielle Turnquest, of Florida, US, attended the ceremony at Lincoln’s Inn this week. Turnquest passed the University of Law’s Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) this year after passing the Graduate Diploma in Law when she was just 17. She will also be called to the Bahamas Bar, the country of her parental heritage. She previously graduated from Virginia’s Liberty University with a BSc in Psychology at the age of 16.
The average age of BPTC graduates at the College of Law last year was 27.
Turnquest will now return to the US to study a programme at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising before sitting the multi-state Bar in the US. She intends to pursue a career as a lawyer in the international fashion industry.
