
Raising the Bar
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The Pay for Junior Barristers Is Really Low
i worked about forty hours a week in a chain coffee shop. I got an hourly rate, and i knew how much i was going to get from how much i worked. And i don't have that now. So just talk us through how it works then, for your pay as a criminal barrister when you're getting legal aid money. Instead of getting a salary, we get paid per the work that we do. For criminal trials, for crown court trials, we get a fee per hearing. From that, we all our own expenses. A pre trial hearings can be 91 pounds or a hundred and 26 pounds for a day on court. In court, we've usually done a day
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