Barristers have announced that they're going to strike over low pay and legal aid rates on 5th September. It is expected that the majority of Crown Court cases across the country will be adjourned.
Criminal defence barrister, Rosalind Burgin, 28 (pictured left), said that she earned £7,000 more per year working as a coffee shop barista. She says that the legal work is insecure and is still waiting for payment for work that she did last September.
The junior barrister from Manchester, says that while working as a criminal barrister is noble work, "you still need to be able to live."
Hippolyte Taine, the French historian, critic, and philosopher, famously said: "When it comes to revolution, forget the poor and worry about the poor lawyers."
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