I write following the article by Carly Moore-Martin .

It is a sad fact that a great many young people wish to qualify as lawyers but the opportunities to do so are simply not available.

There are now websites where graduates of the Legal Practice Course or the Bar Professional Training Course bemoan their lack of success in obtaining a training contract or pupillage and regret the large debt that they have accrued. This is only going to get worse.

More students are going to university every year. The debt that they accrue is about to rise significantly. It is high time that LPC/BPTC providers started behaving responsibly, and the Law Society and Bar Council took this issue seriously.

The only solution is to restrict completion of the LPC or BPTC to those who have secured a training contract or pupillage. This may seem unfair and restrictive, but the alternative is to have a generation of law students saddled with huge debts and little chance of ever fully qualifying into their chosen professions.

What cannot continue is the situation whereby graduates have to ‘take a punt’ and risk tens of thousands of pounds of debt, on the off chance that they will be able to qualify.

Robin Dunne, solicitor, London EC2