The legal profession has been singled out as too socially exclusive by a U.K. government report on fair access to professions. The report calls on occupations such as lawyers and doctors to widen access to their professions after becoming increasingly exclusive in recent decades. The report found that of all professions in the U.K., lawyers typically grew up in the best-off families, with lawyers born in 1970 brought up in families with income 64 percent higher than the national average.
July 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The legal profession has been singled out as too socially exclusive by a U.K. government report on fair access to professions.
The report, compiled by a panel chaired by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn, calls on occupations such as lawyers and doctors to widen access to their professions after becoming increasingly more exclusive in recent decades.
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