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‘The day the bar died’: Criminal barristers react to legal aid deal

Disappointment, frustration and calls for collective unity
Oct 10 2022 12:45pm
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Striking criminal barristers narrowly vote to accept government pay deal

57% in favour
Oct 10 2022 10:16am
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Striking criminal barristers to vote on government legal aid offer

£54 million pay package follows ‘constructive talks’
Sep 29 2022 3:34pm
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Journal

Criminal justice: A system on its knees

With wigs and gowns on picket lines outside Crown courts around England and Wales, Liverpool Uni law student Jakob Fletcher-Stega makes the argument for increased legal aid fees and asserts the necessity of the ongoing strike
Sep 29 2022 10:52am
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Barrister performs guitar solo to raise awareness for criminal bar strikes

🎵 Save legal aid, magna carta was made to protect people like you 🎵
Sep 26 2022 9:46am
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Deterred from justice: The criminal bar’s darkest hour

Years of underfunding has created a retention and recruitment crisis, writes aspiring barrister Edmund Mawoko
Sep 16 2022 8:56am
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I earned £7k more as a barista, says criminal barrister

Garden Court North’s Rosalind Burgin makes depressing pay comparison as full-blown strike action looms
Aug 25 2022 10:15am
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Have I Got News For You slammed for ‘insulting’ strike gag

Criminal barristers fail to see funny side of Twitter post
Aug 23 2022 10:54am
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Criminal barristers vote in favour of full-blown strike as row over legal aid fees escalates

From 5 September
Aug 22 2022 9:53am
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Criminal barristers to vote on ‘uninterrupted strike action’

Move would be an escalation of alternating weeks of action adopted since late June
Aug 9 2022 11:00am
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Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year’s earnings on Twitter — less than £20,000

£19.5k BEFORE chambers rent, insurance and practising certificate
Jun 28 2022 11:47am
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Criminal bar strike in pics 📸

Barristers join picket lines across the country
Jun 27 2022 11:07am
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Criminal barristers to strike as row over legal aid escalates

Walkouts from next Monday
Jun 20 2022 12:02pm
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Criminal law not an attractive long-term career, say 81% of junior lawyers

Low pay 👎 long hours 👎 poor work-life balance 👎
May 31 2022 1:17pm
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Top criminal chambers pledge support for ‘no returns’ as barrister action begins

Move comes in response to ‘unacceptably low’ legal aid fees
Apr 11 2022 11:22am
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Not enough! Criminal bar responds to government’s £135 million legal aid pledge

Lord Chancellor accepts recommendation of independent review — but bar chief warns move won’t stop colleagues quitting
Mar 15 2022 10:06am
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Legal aid reform: Criminal barristers vote overwhelmingly in favour of direct action

No returns from 11 April ❌
Mar 14 2022 10:50am
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Criminal barristers vote to take action if government does not increase legal aid

‘Justice system on its knees’, say bar leaders
Jan 18 2022 10:35am

SQE Hub

Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government

Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE
Oct 20 2021 12:49pm
Aspiring lawyers divided over career in legal aid

40% of students would not consider publicly funded work, new poll shows, as legal aid group launches new survey to find out why
Jun 30 2021 10:44am
Journal

A brief history of legal aid

Oxford University law graduate Jordan Briggs considers how we got to a point where the civil legal aid system is ‘running on an empty tank’
Jan 19 2021 10:34am
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‘The day the bar died’: Criminal barristers react to legal aid deal