My daughter is in her second year of law at Birmingham.
She failed LNAT. You'd be surprised how irrelevant it is. She is 10 GCSE at A or A star, and she was given an unconditional from reading if she rejected the other unis, she chose to reject reading and went for Birmingham, which required three As. Fortunately she got two A stars and an A. The LNAT was irrelevant in fact the thought is those who perform worst at LNAT do best at a level.
Her offers will be based on her GCSEs and her predicted grades. Then they have to deliver those grades,
I would say law is a hard course, my daughter works from between 9am to 9pm seven days a week, when she is not in lectures or seminars, she is in the library reading. She is applying for placements for solicitors training, which only seven percent of students get in their second year. Otherwise she has to do her masters and then effectively pay for her own study.
It's a long and arduous course, up to six years for a solicitor, with significant debt, and then much longer for a barrister. The work is hard and it's a highly competitive training field. My daughter regularly goes to legal firm networking events, and the junior lawyers say they often work till two in the morning as standard.
She loves it, but I'd say it has to be something you really want to do, and uou need to have strong results to be able to compete in that environment.
To put it into perspective, 400 students started at Birmingham last year with her. Less than two hundred were allowed to continue to second year.