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Jul082022

British criminal bar in revolt

• DateFriday, July 8, 2022

Dire legal aid conditions bring on strikes by criminal briefs in the Old Dart ... Barristers reporting incomes below the minimum wage ... Delays in payments ... Massive exodus from the profession ... Magic Circle firms booming and bloated, while criminal justice practitioners go into debt ... Misconduct charges threatened by the LCJ ... The decay in legal aid outlined by Max Shanahan 

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