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Age is not a barrier to success in reading law at university. There are plenty of people who have gone on to have wonderfully successful legal careers, even though they had a late start. Therefore, please do not let anyone tell you this is a barrier.
Indeed, it may even be to your advantage. Many people who start law at the "conventional time" are quite immature. They have what I believe they call in England a "fresher's mentality", viewing, at least for a while, studies and other aspects of their career with a level of complacency that will later come back (potentially) to bite them, and treating (admittedly not entirely unimportant) stuff (what I like to call "growing-up experiences") with too much importance: experiencing getting massively drunk, finding themselves a steady romantic relationship... and other things. You, on the other hand, will be lazer-focussed on your career from day 1, due to your additional maturity. In fact, I can't see any alternative for you other than that, because you ended up (probably under parental pressure?) starting to read a subject that wasn't to your liking, therefore the fresher's activities wouldn't have been that appealing for you either, and would have lost their charm so you won't even want to participate in them when you start law school. So if you really want to study law, just go for it.