Called to the Bar

Another day in Legal London. This time I wandered around Lincoln's Inn which is one of the four Inns of Court to which all barristers belong once they have been 'called to the Bar'. I have come across formal Call ceremonies at Middle Temple Hall today and yesterday and the two young barristers that appear in the main photo suggest this would be happening at Lincoln's Inn as well.  The records of the Inn's governing council date back to 1422. The photo shows the Great Hall, which was opened by Queen Victoria in 1845. The much smaller Old Hall dates from at least 1489 but has been remodelled several times over the centuries. 
It is in the Old Hall that Charles Dickens set the opening of 'Bleak House' as that  was where the court of Chancery sat before it moved to the newly built Royal Courts of Justice in 1882. 

The extra is of Temple Church, one of London's most historic churches.