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It was Lord Hoffman who once said that 'like cases must be treated alike and unlike cases differently for that is the axiom of ratiional behaviour'. I think with all due respect to Lady Justice Hale that it is easier to pass comments from a glass ceiling after all she is the deputy Supreme Court Judge, than it is from a prism of reality. The fact is that pupils do not have the availbility of work experience never mind job opportunities in order to address the modern thing of social mobility or in other words diversity. How can we achieve a truly diverse profession where nearly all training places, work experience is reserved to those from white middle class elites, take the composition of the Supreme Court all male save Lady Hale, take the Cabinet nearly all male uxbrdige hybrids to the exclusion of all others.

The fact remains there is no such thing as social mobility where we have a hybrid of elites controlling and emancifying our professions and society en mass with rich pickings for the few and fighting crumbs for all the rest. The sad reality is that pound for pound given the chance, given the opportunity, take the elitism and hybrid selection, in short a level playing field for all candidates based on ability, potential then we have a better chance of achieving social mobility and not mobility of social ill.