Essay Competition 2025

Open to all law undergraduates, LLM, GDL, and BPTC students 

The essay question will be available on the PBA website on 4 November 2024. 

1st Prize• £1000 and your essay published in Estates Gazette

2nd Prize• £500

3rd Prize • £250

The finalists will each receive a hardback copy of Megarry & Wade: The Law of Real Property, which is kindly sponsored by Thomson Reuters.

Each finalist will also have the opportunity to meet online with a specialist property barrister for a one-to-one discussion about life at the Bar, getting to the Bar, property work and/or your future career. 

Deadline for entries: Friday 17 January 2025

The winner will be announced and the prizes presented by a High Court Judge and the Chair of the PBA at an event attended by the judiciary and  members of the PBA in April 2025.

Full conditions for entry may be found here: PBA Essay – Rules 2025

This year’s question is:

100 years on from the passing of the Law of Property Act 1925, is the Act’s approach to formalities fit for the modern era?