BBC News - Legal aid row leads to halting of serious fraud trial
Given that it's quite serious news. There are apparently another 8 fairly big trials that look like they are going the same way.
What do we think? Are barristers just being greedy or should we as fellow self determining professionals feel solidarity with them? Personally I go for the latter, a 30% rate cut is a pretty hefty **** you, I'd not put up with that myself.
And reading this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26635572
just makes it even more obvious the government really doesn't understand (or is willfully ignorant about) what the flexible independent working they claim to champion entails.
Given that it's quite serious news. There are apparently another 8 fairly big trials that look like they are going the same way.
What do we think? Are barristers just being greedy or should we as fellow self determining professionals feel solidarity with them? Personally I go for the latter, a 30% rate cut is a pretty hefty **** you, I'd not put up with that myself.
And reading this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26635572
just makes it even more obvious the government really doesn't understand (or is willfully ignorant about) what the flexible independent working they claim to champion entails.
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