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Earlier this week, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed that the legal profession “is not doing enough” to make itself more representative of society.
(See ‘Clegg: legal profession is not doing enough on social mobility‘ on legalfutures.co.uk.)
The Citizenship Foundation has worked on developing young people’s knowledge and understanding of the law for over twenty years, [...]

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It’s a few weeks now since schools returned from the summer break, when fresh interest in the law was sparked by the UK riots and the legal consequences that followed.
I am particularly interested in how schools tackle the issues we witnessed on the television, as we have been providing educational projects and publications for young [...]

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It’s a busy day at the Citizenship Foundation as we finish off the preparations ahead of this year’s national final of the Bar National Mock Trial Competition, which is being held in Belfast this weekend.
The sixteen schools through to the final are: Bishop Luffa School, Chichester; Chelmsford County High School, Essex; Dalriada School, Ballymony; De [...]

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