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Anon 17.24 - totally agree in terms of the problem being rooted at the earliest stages of the process. In reality, the problem goes right back to our schooling doesn't it?

Of my year group in high school (comp!), there were around 150 or so of us. As far as I am aware (and I'm fairly well aware, Facebook and whatnot), 4 of us are lawyers (of whom 1 is a barrister), none of us are doctors, dentists, architects, accountants or surveyors or any other kind of professional and none of us work in the City or otherwise in that realm of finance and whatnot.

That is of course not to say that plenty of people have not achieved wonderful things already and gotten great jobs, but it paints a picture does it not? 4 out of around 150 went into one of the traditional professions or something akin to one. Now compare that to the boys and girls respective fee paying schools in my little city and... Well there's a very different picture. And I'm not here to get into a debate about how children should be educated, parental choice and so on, but the difference is clear. And I think we'd all accept that it isn't the fact that the privately schooled children are just better.

Until inequalities are addressed in this country, the situation will continue. So it will take time, for sure, but the High Court bench will surely be the starting point in terms of a more diversified judiciary... More efforts to get more solicitors into all levels of judiciary would no doubt help!

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