Image: 2014 walk-outs by criminal barristers over legal aid cuts - action has now escalated. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Images, all rights reserved.
Since 1 April, criminal barristers in England and Wales have been refusing to go to court.
What has incensed our learned friends so much as to leave defendants unrepresented in the dock? The latest wave of cuts to legal aid that would bring an already creaking criminal justice system to its knees.
