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27-06-2022, 05:22 AM | #1 | |||
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61946038
[Barristers will walk out of courts across England and Wales on Monday in a dispute over legal aid funding. During the strikes, they will not accept new cases or take on work for colleagues whose cases have overrun. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) said around 81.5% of its more than 2,000 members who voted in a ballot supported the action. Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said the strikes were "regrettable" and would "only delay justice for victims". In a statement released on the first day of action, Mr Raab urged barristers "to agree the proposed 15% pay rise which would see a typical barrister earn around £7,000 more a year".] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ngham-61946915 15% pay rise sound good. |
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27-06-2022, 05:41 AM | #2 | |||
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Any barristers I know are anything but poor
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27-06-2022, 08:15 AM | #3 | |||
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Greedy swines
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27-06-2022, 08:19 AM | #4 | |||
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They start on 13K and year and most have huge debts from study.
The average time it takes for a rape case to come to trial in the uk is 1500 days |
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27-06-2022, 08:23 AM | #5 | |||
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In a statement released on the
first day of action, Mr Raab urged barristers "to agree the proposed 15% pay rise which would see a typical barrister earn around £7,000 more a year".] well then
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27-06-2022, 08:28 AM | #6 | |||
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27-06-2022, 08:48 AM | #7 | ||
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If they're full time they start on around £23-25k a year not £13k, thats not even min wage. Not that £25k is particularly good considering the work involved in a law degree. Basically the hardest slog of any degree from what I've heard. I know a few law graduates and even more law dropouts.
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27-06-2022, 09:02 AM | #8 | |||
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"I know a few law graduates"
TS This is not about Scottish Barristers, Last edited by arista; 27-06-2022 at 09:03 AM. |
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27-06-2022, 09:10 AM | #9 | ||
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27-06-2022, 09:16 AM | #10 | |||
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Greedy ****ers knew the situation before they went to uni.
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27-06-2022, 09:35 AM | #11 | |||
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Say whaaaat. That's like four years. If the accused spends all his time on remand, that's a massive waste of tax payer money, not to mention legal fees and emotional trauma being dragged out for the accuser...
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27-06-2022, 09:36 AM | #12 | |||
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Not like us.
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27-06-2022, 11:07 AM | #13 | |||
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This is about Legal Aid payments
that has gone down. |
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27-06-2022, 11:08 AM | #14 | |||
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"Junior criminal barristers will remain on less than minimum wage."
Yes Slim they are the Juniors |
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27-06-2022, 11:11 AM | #15 | |||
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27-06-2022, 11:17 AM | #16 | |||
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27-06-2022, 11:25 AM | #17 | |||
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it's only illegal immigrants that get legal aid these days is it not?
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27-06-2022, 12:19 PM | #18 | ||
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Unless they're under 20, which isn't really possible as they'd barely be out of school. Again it can only really be trhat they're "effectively" on less than minimum hourly wage because, let's say, they're salaried for a 40 hour working week at maybe £21k but they're actually working 60-hour weeks. |
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27-06-2022, 12:25 PM | #19 | |||
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The median income for junior criminal barristers inside the first three years of practice is £12,200. For a seventy hour week. Would anyone be surprised if junior members of (salaried) staff anywhere were made to do unpaid overtime?
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27-06-2022, 12:29 PM | #20 | |||
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27-06-2022, 12:31 PM | #21 | |||
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27-06-2022, 12:41 PM | #22 | ||
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That's not a reference arista, I need a link. I'm genuinely not understanding how they can be be being paid literally less than minimum wage, unless they're working full time on part time contracts, or maybe it's some sort of freelancing? But even then the new-ish "usual hours" rules should make that not really possible.
I'm not saying it isn't happening but I've yet to see anything convincing that explains HOW it's happening. The links seem to amount to "Oh it is, trust me". I saw something vague about expenses & fees making the "effective" wage X-amount but not what those expenses and fees are. |
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27-06-2022, 12:56 PM | #23 | |||
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The Fixed Fee
for Legal Aid. Typical amount £90 No Travel Expenses at all. One Lady, he was working in the Legal field now earns more in a Coffee Cafe. ITV1HD Lunch News, https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-27/...-court-backlog |
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27-06-2022, 12:58 PM | #24 | |||
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the only example of salary i see in the BBC article is one lady who was earning 12k a few years ago. No mention anywhere of 9k
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27-06-2022, 01:14 PM | #25 | |||
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Yes I can not find £9K staff on any link also. I have deleted my original post. It was spoken on the news. Last edited by arista; 27-06-2022 at 01:20 PM. |
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