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Lawyers say talent stifled by old-boy networks

Two-thirds of Scotland’s lawyers believe ‘old-boy networks’ influence appointments to the bench, according to the broadest survey of the profession to date.

The research found 67% of legal professionals believed “being in the right social network” influenced who became a sheriff or a judge, although almost no-one thought it should.