Court trials could be hit by striking barristers
News that barristers throughout the UK have rejected a move to fix their payments to £91 an hour has put the UK on the brink of a serious problem. While the Ministry of Justice claims that no trials have been hit by the breakdown in talks, the Criminal Bar Association is suggesting that a number of high profile cases have already been hit, with more to follow unless the dispute is resolved.
The move by an independent panel to set pay for junior barristers (starting at £70 an hour) and senior barristers at £91 an hour is less than the industry has ever been paid before. While the figures may look very high it seems as though the barristers in question would 'only' receive half of the figures quoted by the panel after costs, tax, etc. At a time when the UK government has promised to clamp down hard on those who break the law it does not make sense to then 'pick a fight' with those who would be heavily involved in the cases.
This is just the latest in a mass of strike actions which are sure to come to fruition in the UK over the next few months. We have already had the council workers striking, civil servants deciding to down tools and now we have those most heavily involved in law enforcement looking to cause more problems.
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