SPRUCE has been designed to provide students who have completed Year 12 with insights into the study of and careers in Law, principally to afford insights that we think are important as you approach the time you will be making applications to University, in Year 13. We want to give you an introduction to the Legal System, the opportunity to learn about the study of Law at University (and, perhaps a career teaching Law later on), the chance to hear from practitioners working as Barristers, Solicitors, Legal Executives in areas such as Criminal Law, Civil Law and Family Law, and from those who work as lawyers in business or in non-contentious work such as Wills and Conveyancing. We’ll even give you a chance to appear in a real Court, before a real Judge, to try your hand at Prosecuting or Defending someone facing sentence for a criminal offence.

We do this because we believe that, whoever you are, wherever you come from, whatever your background, you have the potential to be the lawyers of the future, and we want to help you on the path to becoming a Barrister, a Solicitor, a Legal Executive – even a Judge.