Editing Inner Temple (section)

==Role==
{{See also|Barristers in England and Wales|Inns of Court}}
The Inner Temple is one of the four [[Inns of Court]],<ref name="ac">{{cite web |url=http://www.innertemple.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=14 |title=Archive Catalogue |publisher=Inner Temple |access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref> along with [[Gray's Inn]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graysinn.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=659 |title=Gray's Inn |publisher=[[Gray's Inn]] |access-date=24 November 2009 |archive-date=18 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618103102/http://www.graysinn.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=659 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> [[Lincoln's Inn]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/inns.asp |title=Lincoln's Inn History |publisher=[[Lincoln's Inn]] |access-date=24 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025170923/http://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/inns.asp |archive-date=25 October 2009}}</ref> and the [[Middle Temple]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.middletemple.org.uk/ |title=Home |publisher=[[Middle Temple]] |access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref> The Inns are responsible for training, regulating, and selecting barristers within [[England and Wales]], and are the only bodies allowed to [[call to the Bar|call a barrister to the Bar]] and allow him or her to practice.<ref name="it55">{{cite web |url=http://www.innertemple.org.uk/ |title=Inner Temple |publisher=Inner Temple |access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref>

The Inner Temple is an independent,<ref name="ac"/> unincorporated organisation,<ref name="it55"/> and works as a [[Trust law|trust]]. It has approximately 8,000 members and around 450 apply to join per year.<ref name="it55"/> Although the Inn was previously a disciplinary and teaching body, these functions are now shared between the four Inns, with the [[Bar Standards Board]] (a division of the [[General Council of the Bar]]) acting as a disciplinary body and the Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust providing education.