I invite @BrandonLewis to attend outside the Old Bailey tomorrow and tell one of my junior colleagues grossing £12k a year for a 70-hour week that they are not underpaid.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Brandon Lewis suggests many people don’t think criminal barristers are underpaid
Which is different to an assessment whether they actually *are* under underpaid
Feeding the myth might be useful to government now, but doesn’t help anyone in the long-run
It is regrettable that it has come to this.
But the government’s continued defunding of the criminal justice system, and refusal to engage with those whose goodwill keeps the courts running, has left us with no choice.
Criminal barristers are walking out.
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Criminal justice system could come to crippling halt in weeks as barristers decide whether to escalate action over legal aid by not turning up to court:
lawgazette.co.uk/news/legal-…