If I have any regular readers of this little online offering you will know that I am hoping to become a barrister at some point.

I have applied to the course for this, the BVC back when it opened. I have to wait until March or April of 2006 to hear whether I have a place or not.

This is tantamount to painful physical torture... even GCSE results come back faster!

What irks me most is that those of us applying for entrance in September 2006 will either already be graduates, or will graduate in July of that year. So what's the point in waiting until Spring to give the places? Not only does it keep the likes of me, whose degree result will unfortunately not change, in terrible suspense - but it wastes a good proportion of the job-hunting year for those still to graduate.

Like everything else in the legal profession I guess, it's just plain unfair.