Originally Posted by Unregistered

This whole 1 year extended TC and pseudo-qualification (called to bar but not practising) is almost farcically comical. And agreed that it's a big F U to newly graduated aspirants to the legal profession. Throwing them to the mercies of the market, which we know will take every opportunity to squeeze every drop of blood from their trainees whom they view as mere units of labour.

Anyone who thinks this will be effectual in raising some nebulous conception of standards is exactly someone who I'd expect had ridden the gravy train in decades past.