Too many law students
As under-graduates are busy causing havoc in London (and incidentally blocking my usual route home) there are growing calls from members of the legal profession to reduce the number of post-graduate students training to become lawyers. To qualify as a solicitor most people complete a law degree, the Legal Practice Course and two-years of on the job training. Similarly at the Bar you do your degree, the Bar Finals (they have a new name that I can't remember now) and then one-year on the job training, called a pupillage. Currently the LPC at BPP Law School costs £12,500 in London and the Bar Course costs an eye watering £14,995. By the time you get near doing these courses you will have either a law degree, currently costing about £9,000 or a non-law degree (still £9,000) plus the Post Graduate Diploma in Law £8,730. If I qualified today using the route I took then I would have paid £23,734 just in tuition fees. That is significantly more than any trainee s...