🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Remuneration and the Spending Review:   Since September 2024, we have been repeatedly asking the Government when they will implement the recommendations of the CLAAB report which was published on the 14th November 2024. Chair’s Message

The Leveson Review: It is impossible and impractical to take a position on this review unless and until its detailed recommendations are published. We still await sight of the data upon which any of its conclusions will be based and, bearing in mind that the report must be

The Leveson Review: Plainly, for the CBA to properly advocate our position, the response rate to the survey must be significant. If you care about the future of our profession, retention of the junior Bar and the right to jury trial, then we urge you to respond. Chair’s Message

We are delighted to announce Dr Jo Farrar CB OBE as the new Permanent Secretary of MoJ. Jo brings with her a wealth of experience having previously served as Second Permanent Secretary of MoJ and Chief Executive of @HMPPS. We look forward to welcoming Jo soon.

#spendingreview2025 City A.M. reports: “the Chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Mary Prior KC stated that “increasing the numbers of police officers or probation officers is welcomed.” “They will deal with detection of crime and rehabilitation of offenders. For their work to

#SpendingReview2025 BBC News (UK) reports (15:42) “Separately, the Criminal Bar Association - which represents barristers who appear in courts - says that the government is continuing to ignore independent reviews that have recommended more money to entice lawyers into this critical

Still not a word from the government about the most urgent - and increasingly intractable - problem facing criminal justice: the desperate lack of criminal lawyers. It doesn’t matter how many extra police and courts we have if there’s nobody to prosecute and defend those cases.

“The Crown Prosecution Service cannot prosecute the most serious criminal cases across England and Wales without criminal Barristers.” #MaryPrior KC The CBA justicenews247.com/2025/06/12/the…

Bar objects to government plan to abolish some jury trials thetimes.com/article/06275f…

We value and applaud the excellence of the work that you do in presenting serious criminal offences to juries, enabling witnesses to be heard, testing and probing evidence to ensure that everyone receives a fair trial. You make a difference every day and without you the criminal

In 2019 one case was ineffective because the prosecution Barrister was engaged in another trial. In 2024 that figure was 209, a rise of 20,800%. There were 18 ineffective trials in 2019 because there was no Barrister to prosecute. That figure increased to 444 in 2024, a rise of

The constant chopping and changing of the numbers of sitting days has made life fraught for all professionals within the criminal justice system and had a devastating impact on well-being. Despite all of this, in 2024, Crown Court productivity had returned to its pre-pandemic

The Leveson Review; intermediate court The crux of this radical change is not that defendants will have a new right to opt for trial by Judge alone unless the Judge refuses. The radical change is about the removal of the right to trial by jury for vast swathes of cases.

At this very moment the Home Secretary is talking tough about grooming gangs. Meanwhile today, my RASSO trial - listed for the third time, was yet again adjourned (to 2026), because there was no court. Allegations including rape, multiple complainants, from 2022/3.