After the failure of Price Competitive Tendering, we all know that Government 'Plan B' is just as bad.
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This plan is to make outright legal aid cuts ranging from 17.5% up to 68%, and also to hugely limit the number of firms eligible for duty solicitor contracts. In one stroke, this destroys two key strengths of our industry - our diversity and our professionalism. The effect will be to drive most high street firms out of business, not to mention bankrupting hundreds of barristers trying to persevere with criminal law.
Never forget these examples under current proposals from September 2013:
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Despite all of this, the government show little sign of listening. They still falsely present these cuts as necessary government savings. They still refuse to acknowledge these cuts are deliberately targeted towards those pleading 'not guilty'.
So we have tried engagement. We have tried argument. And we have provided expert evidence. But they are not listening, and time is running out.
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On Friday 7th March 2014, each lawyer will make their own decision. But all true professionals will stand together and take action by not attending Court.
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This need not be a case of 'Some of us tried to stop this'. It can be 'All of us stood up, and all of us stopped this'.
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