It is not a good idea to find yourself crying with laughter at work as your pupil-master (for non-lawyers, that's basically your Big Boss Man) walks towards you.
The roots of the prime minister's sacking of his old pupil-master last year lie in the dispute over criminal justice between the lord chancellor and the minister.
Amongst 20 Labour rebels was ex-Lord Chancellor, the prime minister's pupil-master when he was training as a lawyer.
the shadow chancellor said the decision was ‘the most humiliating U-turn’ for the prime minister's former pupil-master.
Part VII of the Code contained sections on pupil-masters and pupils.