Gaps in understanding of the Bar among students, universities and the profession, career advice, and financial constraints all contribute to a lack of social mobility at the Bar, a major study by Keele University and the Inner Temple has found. The report, Professional Intervention, Social Mobility and Access to the Legal Profession, recommends the Bar communicate more closely with universities to reiterate that recruitment is based on merit rather than background, as well as exploring strategies such as offering expenses for mini-pupillages and sharing knowledge about non-traditional paths to the Bar.
27 April 2016
Lack of social mobility at the Bar
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Copyright © 2026 LexisNexis
