Criminal barristers strike over legal aid fees and working conditions

Criminal barristers go on strike over pay

Criminal barristers are taking strike action across England and Wales in their dispute over pay and conditions.

Criminal barristers in UK strike over pay

THOUSANDS of barristers went on strike over pay and Britain's creaking justice system on Monday.

Picket Line Outside the Old Bailey as UK Barristers go on Strike Over Legal Aid

Around 50 barristers, wearing traditional wigs, set up a picket line outside the Old Bailey—the most famous court in Britain—as a strike began on Monday over pay and working conditions. Barristers also set up picket lines outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, and Cardiff. Outside the Old Bailey, Lucie Wibberley, secretary of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), said: “We’re here to protest against the unacceptable pay and work…

Criminal barristers strike over legal aid fees and working conditions

Criminal barristers have warned the profession is facing an 'existential crisis'.

Trial of Neo-Nazi suspect among 400 disrupted by barristers’ pay strike

Defence lawyers stage protest and refuse to take on new cases over the Government’s 15 per cent pay increase offer

Barristers in Wales walk out of courts in row over pay

Courts are brought to a standstill but barristers are encouraged to accept a 15% pay offer.