A privately educated elite continues to dominate the legal profession, as new Sutton Trust figures show 78% of barristers have Oxbridge qualifications, while the figure is 74% for the judiciary and 55% of solicitors.
Sutton Trust’s ‘Leading People 2016’ report, based on a survey of 1,200 individuals, was released alongside educational background data for various other professions and showed the number of lawyers educated privately is disproportionate to the 7% of Britons which attend privately run schools.
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