Solicitors to protest over legal aid cuts
Criminal law cases at the Courts of Criminal Justice could face disruption today, as lawyers protest over cuts to the legal aid system.
Around 100 solicitors and barristers are to formally abstain from handling cases in the six district courts.
The Justice Minister Alan Shatter told the Dáil yesterday that he finds the threatened strike "absolutely extraordinary".
Solicitor with Sheehan and Partners Solicitors, Daragh Robinson, has said the criminal law system is underfunded.
Mr Robinson said: "The system is now groaning at the seams, we are being obliged to undertake more and more work in relation to more and more cases.
"For that we are getting less and less pay on a steady basis. We are now back to about 2001 pay levels."
