Phew. Well, the emergency budget has come and gone without Armageddon.
The next threat, to the publicly funded Bar at least, is the Autumn spending review.
For review read massacre. If, as is suggested, every Department is going to have its budget cut by 25% then we at the Bar can expect trouble. If the public have to choose between lovely teachers, cuddly nurses or apparently fat, overpaid Barristers who do you think will win? Perhaps we need some strong leadership and positive noises coming from the CBA and Bar Council about the importance of Legal Aid practitioners.
Sorry, I forgot myself there for a minute. What a ridiculous suggestion.
The most recent announcement by the Ministry of Jihad did not 'rule out' further cuts to Advocates' fees. That of course is over and above the 13.5% unilateral cuts already made. If I didn't trust them so implicitly, I'd say they were winding up for further cuts.
BBB recommends learning a new skill to improve future prospects or maybe looking for an alternative career.
Apparently, there is a vacancy for a job as PR officer with the FA and Team England. Must have experience of defending the indefensible and the very guilty etc. etc..
The next threat, to the publicly funded Bar at least, is the Autumn spending review.
For review read massacre. If, as is suggested, every Department is going to have its budget cut by 25% then we at the Bar can expect trouble. If the public have to choose between lovely teachers, cuddly nurses or apparently fat, overpaid Barristers who do you think will win? Perhaps we need some strong leadership and positive noises coming from the CBA and Bar Council about the importance of Legal Aid practitioners.
Sorry, I forgot myself there for a minute. What a ridiculous suggestion.
The most recent announcement by the Ministry of Jihad did not 'rule out' further cuts to Advocates' fees. That of course is over and above the 13.5% unilateral cuts already made. If I didn't trust them so implicitly, I'd say they were winding up for further cuts.
BBB recommends learning a new skill to improve future prospects or maybe looking for an alternative career.
Apparently, there is a vacancy for a job as PR officer with the FA and Team England. Must have experience of defending the indefensible and the very guilty etc. etc..
Dear BBB,
ReplyDeleteAlthough i do find your blog amusing, you seem very concerned about your income and the many propsoed cutbacks, and not so concerned with the service you provide. I suggest you think about all those 'lovely teachers' and 'cudley nurses' many of whom survive on less than 25k a year. Tried that recently? Nope thought not.
Oh my. That cuts deep. BBB feels real pain like a real person. The high quality of my service can, I assure you, be taken as read. This blog in many ways was born out of the unprincipled 13.5% real cuts to Barristers' fees which we alone suffered unlike any other public sector profession. Such comments are not meant to offend or discriminate and I apologise if they have. I feel the pain of every public sector worker. All are undervalued and I agree, we as a profession in real terms do a lot better than most. However, these things are of course all relative. This blog is merely intended as at least a partial voice for a great many frustrated members of the Bar - incidentally, some of whom (in London at least) do not earn a great deal more than 25k a year by the time expenses, tax etc. is pared away. The burden of a person's liberty in your hands is a heavy one it goes without saying. Many of them have also have spent about 40-50k getting qualified. I imagine if you asked who had tried that recently, the answer would be not a lot of people.. In any event, your comment is duly noted and I shall try to be less vulgar!
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