On an unrelated note,
@Jessica Booker have you recruited any international applicants (i.e., LLB from a completely different country than England/Wales/Ireland/Scotland and secondary schooling there as well)? I'm starting to lose hope as an overseas applicant.. Thanks!
This is not as straightforward, not because of any discrimination but because of the work visa processes that used to exist.
The UK government made it really difficult to recruit people from outside of the UK/EU (e.g. if you were not transferring from a student visa) for quite a while, I think it was the early 2010s through to 2021 if I remember correctly.
Therefore, pre-Brexit, most of the international applicants who had studied outside of the UK were from the EU because they had the right to work in the UK- and there were enough of them getting TCs. So it was not a foreign education issue that was blocking them from securing TCs. It was just often the work permit requirements were not blocking them, unlike non-EU candidates.
The one benefit of Brexit was the UK government changed the skilled persons visa process in January 2021, making it pretty much as easy to recruit an international student from outside of the UK as it was to recruit an international student studying at a UK university. But we haven't really seen much of that time lag yet - most people recruited in 2021 probably hasn't even started their TC yet, but I suspect in time we will see more international applicants educated outside of the UK represented in trainee intakes.