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That's not quite the situation described Mr Bowers. A minority of Cambridge students, for example, were privately educated. The colleges at the top of the academic rankings, tend to be 64%-70+plus% state school. (My old college, Clare, hovers between 64% and 68%.)

If all the bar's leading sets and the judiciary have done is to reflect these elite institutions (I don't use the word 'elite' as a criticism here), both would be more diverse.

If these top sets and the JAC mean to recruit on merit, then something else is going wrong. That 'something else', it struck me, is the financial obstacles to entry.