This diary should contain meaningful entries in regard to when, where and what work was done, whether or not it was performed with your pupil master or with some other member of the Bar. In particular, where you have performed actively some role in the preparation or the conduct of the matter, this fact should be recorded. From time to time pupils will be invited to meet with members of the Pupillage Committee to discuss details of the work which they have done, and the experience which they are getting in the course of their pupillage. At the Johannesburg Bar a series of lectures are arranged on the subject matter that pupils will be examined on. It is in your own interests important that you attend as many of these lectures as is possible and where through force of circumstance you are unable to attend some of them, that you make an effort to obtain from fellow pupils notes in regard to that what you have missed.
Attendance is compulsory and absences are tolerated only for good cause shown.
In addition to the lectures, you may obtain from the administrative officers of the Bar Council on the first floor of Schreiner Chambers, copies of old examination papers which will afford you an opportunity to become familiar with the kind of questions that you will likely find in your examination. From the commencement or your pupillage you are immediately entitled to the full use of the Bar Library on the first floor of Innes Chambers. You ought to introduce yourself to the librarians as soon as possible and in particular to the chief librarian. She will show you around the library and indicate to you what is available for your use. As many pupils when they commence practice do not possess full libraries of their own, it is in your own interests important for you to become familiar with the layout and content of the library so that it may be used by you when you begin practice quickly and efficiently.