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Stephen Nathanson is Professor, College of Law, London and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He serves as consultant to the College of Law in the design of its Bar Vocational Course (BVC) and worked with his co‐author on designing the BVC and training staff in design and teaching skills.
Suzanne Fine is Head of the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law and leader of its design team. She directed the College's application to the Bar Council for validation of the BVC, planned and organised the development of the course, managed its delivery and participated as one of its teachers. The authors are grateful to the two anonymous referees who provided many helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper and to the BVC teachers whose creativity and hard work made possible the successful application of the design concepts discussed in this paper.