14/12/2011
68% of barristers and 70% of high court judges are privately educated
Nick Clegg delivered a speach urging the legal sector to stamp out nepotism. The whole..’represent people in court represent the community in membership’. Its not a new one. With 9 out of ten QC’s being male and 19 out of 20 being white its not without considerable statistic background that the lack of social mobility in the legal sector has been so widely targeted.
Initiatives like PRIME are working to stop that by giving kids from underprivledged background the opportunity to do work experience at law firms. Some feel the entire set up is wrong and that kids are forced to get perfect results at GCSE and A-Level and make specialised choices earlier than is necessary and potentially there is an opportunity to intervene early rather than try and re-correct the balance at a later point.