It never ceases to amaze me the passions that the Bar arouses when it comes to diversity and privilege. In hindsight, I probably should have made a few points clearer about our recent Future stars at the Bar feature at the time of its publication. Whatever the reason, the piece attracted a string of posts, many of them highly critical of us.
Generally, we were accused of being elitist, focusing too much on London-based advocates and ignoring the criminal Bar. But the key issue for many posters was that we were selecting barristers on the basis of their education, and mainly Oxbridgers at that.
