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Solicitors set for walkout

Justice will grind to a halt in Telford next week when criminal defence solicitors go on "strike" in protest at nationwide cost-cutting plans by the Government. Justice will grind to a halt in Telford next week when criminal defence solicitors go on "strike" in protest at nationwide cost-cutting plans by the Government. Lawyers will walk out from Telford Magistrates Court on Wednesday to attend a "training day" in Birmingham. And they are threatening further, escalating industrial action unless the Government backs down. Thousands of lawyers all over England and Wales, members of the Criminal Defence Solicitors Union, are furious at plans to make them tender for legal aid work, a move that will see firms bidding for the contract to operate in an area. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star

North Shropshire|Mar 15, 2007
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