22-05-2025
Powerlifting blogger secures pupillage after 52 applications
A powerlifting legal blogger who is renowned for his online summaries of public law cases has finally been offered a pupillage place in chambers.
It took four years of disappointment and 52 applications for Gabriel Tan to be offered a pupillage — the one-year barristers' training requirement — at Matrix Chambers.
Tan, 30, will start the pupillage in October next year. He built momentum on 'legal Twitter', a network of social media profiles on X that are united by a love of pedantry about the law, where he posts as @finishedloading.
Tan says the network, in which law students discuss topical legal matters with eminent silks, was 'massively' encouraging. He recalls that he became so prolific on the platform that at one stage he
