Sunday 5 January 2014

Life at the Thin Edge of the Wedge – The Grim Reality of the Independent Junior Criminal Bar


Life at the Thin Edge of the Wedge – The Grim Reality of the Independent Junior Criminal Bar

""When asked what I do for a living, I often hesitate momentarily before changing the subject. Despite feeling immensely proud and privileged to have made it into the illustrious world of the purported legal ‘elite’, the words ‘criminal barrister’ do not roll off the tongue with the ease I’d expected such achievement would ultimately engender. You see, experience tells me that once a new acquaintance hears the ‘B’ word, their reaction will invariably range somewhere between curious disgust right up to the unfettered revulsion you might feel if you found out you’d just mistakenly cleaned your teeth with the old toothbrush reserved for scrubbing under the rim of the toilet…" 
The Grim Reality of the Independent Junior Criminal Bar

A heart moving and inspiring account of why the british stiff upper lip has been broken by this Government, and why people are standing up to policies that are destroying the Justice System and the lives of public sector workers.

  • This is why the Criminal Bar will walk out of work for the first time in 300 years. 
  • This is why a Union Leader says, "When Barristers are forced to take to the cobbles you know the Tories are getting it so wrong" 

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