still no face to face meeting with the justice secretary? still no face to face meeting with thejustice secretary? trio. still no face to face meeting with thejustice secretary? me. if he is the justice secretary? no. if he is listenin: , the justice secretary? iiru if he is listening, what would you say? the justice secretary? no. if he is - listening, what would you say? come to seak to listening, what would you say? come to speakto us- listening, what would you say? come to speak to us. there listening, what would you say? come to speak to us. there is listening, what would you say? come to speak to us. there is a listening, what would you say? come to speak to us. there is a way - to speak to us. there is a way forward here and we are generally trying to represent and look after the most vulnerable people in society. we are a fundamental part of a civilised society and are asked asking we are paid to reflect that. what would it take to stop the escalation of industrial acti
than 2200 criminal barristers who have voted and of those 80% voted for a complete walk out beginning on the 5th of september. to clarify, that means defence barristers who are paid by the legal aid system to represent people who are on trial who otherwise can t pay for their defence. it does not affect prosecutors in that instance but a trial cannot go ahead with just a prosecution barrister and not a defence barristers of the case effectively grinds to a halt. with an 80% vote in favour of the walk out in september crystallises the huge anger among the criminal barrister profession. this has been building for years. we have had a couple of periods of industrial action since 2012 onwards over the rates of legal aid pay and it has been building and building to this position we have now got where they feel they have no choice but to