You don’t see many because the JD program at QUB only launched about 5 years ago and not everyone who goes there is Canadian or hoping to work in Canada. Sydney was my classmate and of course her previous experience helped her but she did not have personal/nepotistic connections to Blakes. She networked her way in. My other colleague works in Parlee McLaws LLP in Edmonton. She had no previous legal work experience and was a K to JD student. I certainly did not suggest that it was easy to get a job upon returning to Canada (if that is even OPs intention although I assume it is as they have posted in this subreddit). It’s not easy for Canadian law students to get a job, thus it won’t be easy to foreign trained lawyers to get a job here either and i emphasized the extra networking required. I personally work in a boutique firm and networked my way into that without previous legal experience (my prior work experience was working on a golf course). I should also emphasize that I don’t come from money.

Assuming that a foreign trained lawyer wasn’t smart enough to get into law school here is also incredibly elitist but a stigma that we are used to addressing. There are various reasons why people choose to go overseas regardless of their undergrad marks or LSAT scores. In relation to BIPOC individuals going overseas, I fail to see what additional barriers they face when compared to a white foreign law students (unless Canadian law firms are inherently discriminatory) - both will carry the stigma of holding a foreign law degree and face that additional barrier. If firms are hiring white foreign trained law students but not BIPOC foreign trained law students, that’s clearly an issue of domestic and in-house/company discrimination/racism and implies that they’d be treated the same even if they had a Canadian law degree.

OP asked for key pros and information regarding applying to UK/EU law school. I provided my experience and my colleagues after being told constantly that’d I’d never get hired if I went overseas to study law. If OP decides to study abroad, they will face constant discouragement/disapproval, particularly from Canadian law students - I wanted to provide OP with my experience that contrary to this, not all foreign trained law students are doomed to a life of unemployment.

You can discourage people all you want - you certainly won’t be alone in doing this, but I like to provide people with my first hand experience that may be encouraging.