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CoL moves to increase access to the legal profession
- 04th December 2009
The College of Law is to team up with Bristol University to expand its Pathways to Law scheme to SW England in an effort to increase access to the legal profession for under privileged students.
Through the scheme, youngsters from state schools who are interested in a legal career, and would be the first generation of their family to attend university, are given advice and mentoring. Students accepted onto the two-year programme will attend lectures, seminars and advice and guidance sessions held by the partner universities and regional centres of the College, as well as a 3-5 day placement in a law firm.
The Bristol branch of the scheme will start when the CoL opens its new Bristol centre in September 2010. The Pathways to Law scheme already works with universities in Leeds, LSE, Manchester, Southampton and Warwick. Meanwhile, the Bar Council is soon to launch No bar to the Bar, a review of measures adopted by the barristers’ profession to enable access to justice.
The review, in conjunction with the Inns of Court, will look at the Bar’s work in the area of access to justice and at talented applicants who have succeeded at the Bar including Lady Justice Hallett, a Court of Appeal judge.
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