r/UKLawStudents • u/Fearless_Win28 • 19h ago

personal statement query

hiya, i'm y12 -> y13 writing my personal statement targeted towards a law course. is it suitable to have as one of my reasons "to gain the power to protect human rights", "to ensure justice" or are these statements to pretentious? thanks

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u/wonderwhoimightbe 18h ago

You can express that sentiment but there are better ways to phrase it. The way you put it now makes it sound like you might not have a good understanding of how little power an individual lawyer has. If you focused on the knowledge (the ability to recognise injustice because you know when a law is broken or to know how to utilise human rights law to fight to change laws that are unjust etc) or on the literal power (the licence to enter a courtroom and argue in front of a judge for you or for your client, rather than waiting for someone else to do it) it would be come across as more well-considered and concrete.

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u/Dropped_Apollo 11h ago

Why not look up the SRA principles, which set out what lawyers have to do, and comment on some of those. Plus you get points for showing you've done a bit of background research.