The aim of the mentoring programme is to provide law students and persons engaged in the early stages of the practice of law, with guidance, advice and support from established legal practitioners. The programme will also be aimed at enabling law students upon completing the bar to have a source of ready information on prospective job offerings in and round the region.

The need for this programme is clear-cut as the process of reading for a law degree and the taking bar exams is a long and arduous task, one that may leave potential lawyers feeling isolated from the fraternity. Therefore if the ethics, processes and idiosyncrasies of the profession are taught at an early stage, potential lawyers would be thoroughly acclimatised with the legal network before ever litigating their first case.

The programme will be co-ordinated by the OCCBA Executive with the assistance of the Secretaries of the local Bar Associations around the region.

Applicants may apply directly to the OCCBA Executive, through their tutors at the law school or any other person so assigned by the OCCBA Executive, by providing information about themselves, their academic background and their particular area or areas of interest in the practice of law.