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I started straight from school as a Trainee Legal Exec, later qualifying as a Fellow, and then studying, as I worked to qualify as a Solicitor.

I think the routes to coming into the profession always have been there, it's just that most people don't know about them.

These days I'd caution anyone about doing a law degree first - unless you really must - and you could always do that part time as you worked anyway.

We need to keep the bar high - that doesn't mean that it shuts out those from a working class background, or from a family with no one who had attained university status in the family previously - I should know, I'm one of them.

If people want to study for a degree and LPC, fine - the demand is there, they can opt for that route too.

We don't need any more dumbing down of the system - the MOJ have already done that.