Shannon and Eleanor complete their first six months of pupillage today and both will start on their feet from Monday 23 March.

Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court for barristers in England & Wales – the others are Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn and Inner Temple.

A series of high-profile cases have highlighted the difficulty faced by the courts when presented with chronically ill children who have exhausted their options for medical treatment in the UK, and whose parents or carers wish to take them abroad to seek further treatment.