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Four New Square pupil reprimanded by BSB after drug arrest

For goodness' sake - what on earth has this got to do with elitism? Everybody makes mistakes; the fact that Mr Mostyn went to Eton makes him no less worthy of redemption than anybody else. It has become all too trendy to criticise the Bar for being inaccessible and nepotistic. There might be good reasons for doing, so but this story does not evince any of them. Bringing up the issue at all seems to me to demonstrate an ill-informed reverse-snobbery that is just as bad as the elitism it seeks to condemn.

29-May-2012

1:25 pm