Basil McCrea asks: are we producing too many law graduates?

Finally a politician has shown himself to be aware that there might be something wrong with belching out law students in the full knowledge that employability prospects are low:

@gary_ni @HerbertSmithLaw @AllenOvery @Citi @investni Maybe you should check how many law students we are producing in NI vs demand
— Basil McCrea (@basilmccrea) June 23, 2013

This comes in the tail of the Sunday Times article which came under the title, 'Glut of graduates threatens hope of career in law' covered by Education Editor Sian Griffiths (@SianGriffiths6). As covered in tweet below:

Law Society: 000s of middle-class graduates who spend years trying to qualify as solicitors will never secure jobs. http://t.co/nqUepk4vxP
— GeneratingGenius (@GeneratingG) June 24, 2013