With recent figures revealing that most wannabe barr isters have as much chance of becoming Lord Chancellor as they do of making it to the Ba r, the great and the good have been scratching their wigs over ways to improve access to the profession for a more diverse range of posh people.
In a bid to placate students’ fury, the Bar Council has launched a working pa rty to come up with a few recommendations to even up the odds for those ca ndidates born without a 58-piece silver cutlery set wedged in their throats, with the return of unfunded pupillages one such option under scrutiny.
