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UK legal aid cuts could distort lawyer recruitment for decades
The outgoing chair of the UK's Bar Standards Board has expressed concern that potential recruits to the law will be so put off from joining by recent Legal Aid cuts that their absence will be felt in the legal infrastructure for several decades.
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Baroness Deech who relinquished her post yesterday said: 'I don’t think anyone can have foreseen just how damaging the cuts in legal aid were going to be six years ago.' She expressed concern that young barristers might be leaving practice because they fear they might earn salaries that are too low to life off - as little as £10,000 a year.
Judges from comprehensive schools
The baroness continued: 'This is where our judges come from. From those who have really learnt their trade by practising at the Bar for many years. If mobility and diversity are affected at the bottom end, people will be saying in 30 years’ time: why have we got no judges from comprehensive schools or why have we got no judges who are ethnic minority or women and so on? If they are saying it now, think how much worse it will be in 30 years’ time.' Source: Financial Times
