Thousands of barristers strike over legal aid fees after ‘alarming exodus’ of staff

Strike action could deepen courts problems, as system already faces 60,000 case backlog

Mr Sidhu added that “immediate and substantial improvement to fees in order to halt the alarming exodus of criminal barristers from publicly funded work” was needed.

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