The Bar is losing top graduates to other professions because students cannot afford to go through training, according to a new survey carried out by the Western Circuit on pupil funding.
Almost half of the new tenants and pupils surveyed on the circuit said the financial burden of training for the Bar had led them to consider alternative careers. More than four-fifths said they knew others who had left or been discouraged from applying to the Bar for financial reasons.
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