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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Liam James

Barristers strike: Why are criminal lawyers staging indefinite walkout?

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Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly in favour of an all-out strike that could bring Britain’s crown courts to a halt.

The vote will escalate an industrial dispute stretching back months has seen barristers walk out on alternate weeks and has already caused a significant growth in the enormous backlog of crown court cases.

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