Escalation of action follows ministers’ refusal to agree to 25% increase in fees as backlog grows to 60,000 cases
Criminal barristers in England and Wales will begin their first indefinite strike on Monday after the government failed to meet their demand to raise legal aid fees following years of cuts.
Before this year, criminal barristers had only walked out for a day and a half in 2014 before a resolution was reached in a dispute over legal aid.
