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Tristan Kirk

Massive funding needed to avert justice crisis, say barristers set to strike over legal aid

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Criminal barristers who are about to go on strike say only a “massive injection of funding” from government will avert the justice crisis which has been building for years.

More than 80 per cent of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted for “days of action” and a dramatic increase in its industrial action in the ongoing row over legal aid funding.

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