Powerful words from Jonathan Rees QC at Cardiff barristers' picket. He says colleagues have been "driven out" of the jobs they love because they could not afford to stay, and describes junior criminal barristers' median income of just £12,200 a year as "scandalous"
Striking barristers in Cardiff warn that real-terms decline in pay at the criminal bar is causing an exodus from the profession and years of delays for justice. "We have made our case over and over again to government but our warnings have fallen on deaf ears."
"The very future of our criminal justice system is in jeopardy... For the sake of victims and those accused of crime we will make this last stand to defend the system to which we have devoted our professional lives." #barristerstrike walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
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