AGIS Committee

The Association of Gray’s Inn Students (AGIS) represents the student members of Gray’s Inn.

Committee Roles

President 

• Has ultimate responsibility for the Committee’s activities and events and represents the Committee by attending the Inn’s Barrister Committee meetings.
• May be called to represent the student body of the Inn in external events.
• Is the chief liaison between the Committee and the Education Department.
• Is responsible for the oversight of the annual budget allocated to AGIS and is the primary liaison between the Committee and the Inn’s Director of Education and Accounts Department.

Vice-President 

• Is the organisational heart of the Committee.
• Attends the Barrister and Events Committee meetings.
• Will deputise for the President of the Committee when required.
• Is the association’s Welfare Officer and may be required to discuss student issues with the Education Dept.

Treasurer 

• The Treasurer is responsible for the annual budget allocated to AGIS and is the primary liaison between the Committee and the Inn’s Director of Education and Accounts Department as the bank with regard to recording and management of the AGIS accounts

Social secretary 

• Is primarily responsible for leading brainstorming on and organising social events throughout the year.
• Is responsible for managing the funding allocated by the Committee and the Education Dept for student events.
• In the absence of the Vice-President, the Secretary acts as deputy for the President
• Manages the organisation of AGIS committee meetings including distributing an agenda and keeping minutes.
• Attends the Inn’s Events Committee.

Publicity officer 

• Coordinates and hosts the Raising the Bar podcast.
• Manages AGIS social media feeds on X and Facebook, helping publicise AGIS events through these channels.
• Coordinates all student publicity with the Inn’s Digital Communications Team.

GDL Officer 

• Promotes the interests of GDL members to the committee.

Law Journal editor 

• Is responsible for publishing and editing the Gray’s Inn Student Law Journal, a collection of legal articles written by Members of Gray’s Inn and uploaded on the Inn’s website.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Officer 

• Is to work with the Inn’s Education Dept to plan the delivery of the Inn’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Qualifying Sessions programme.
• Sits on the ED&I Committee as the student representative and work with the committee to ensure the Inn is an inclusive and diverse professional community.
• Represents student ED&I to the AGIS Committee for consideration. These may then be raised with the Inn’s Barristers Committee or ED&I Committee for further consideration

Mooting and Debating Officer 

• Organising internal mooting and debating events and facilitating the participation of student members in external mooting and debating competitions, including registration for moots.
• Responsible for selecting external moots which will be entered by the inn teams and coordinating the expenditure on entry fees and financial support to students.
• Responsible for ensuring a fair and transparent process for selection on to Inn moot teams and for widening participation in mooting.

Bar Course provider representatives 

• Promotes the interests of student members of their respective institution and assists in communicating messages from AGIS to those Members.
• Where student numbers are particularly low with certain providers, a representative may be responsible for more than one institution

Bar Course providers represented include:

1. ICCA (London)
2. BPP Bristol
3. BPP Holborn
4. BPP Leeds
5. BPP Manchester
6. BPP Birmingham
7. Cardiff University
8. City Law School
9.  University of Hertfordshire
10. University of Law – Birmingham
11. University of Law – London
12. University of Law – Leeds
13. University of Law – Manchester
14. University of Law – Newcastle
15. University of Law – Nottingham
16. Manchester Metropolitan University
17. Nottingham Trent University
18. The University of West England
19. Northumbria University