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Tristan Kirk

Criminal barristers vote to go on strike as legal aid dispute with government escalates

Criminal barristers have voted to walk out in legal aid row (Jane Barlow/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

Barristers have voted to go on strike from next week in the ongoing row with government over Legal Aid funding.

More than 80 per cent of voters in a Criminal Bar Association (CBA) poll supported ‘days of action’, beginning from next Monday and Tuesday together with refusing instructions on new cases.

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