The NHS is under pressure this winter following the pandemic and a surge in Covid and flu cases.
I spoke with @uclh staff on the frontline today and toured the 'discharge lounge' which helps patients leave hospital when ready, freeing up beds and reducing long waits.
@SportsDirect_CS regarding a refund for order SD40000093253598 ordered on 28th September 2022. Order not received. The courier has lied rather poorly about delivery. Relying on a photo which does not show a sports direct package! I’ve emailed and been on your chat box but …
In Iran a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini is in a coma after being violently arrested by the “morality police” for not wearing proper hijab in Tehran. Her name is trending on Persian Twitter and Instagram and Iranian users are outraged. #مهسا_امینی
BMA council members share a message of solidarity to members of @TheCriminalBar on indefinite industrial action. “Like us, criminal barristers have faced huge real term pay cuts and are fighting for pay restoration”
Imagine if Doctors had to recruit, interview and train Junior Drs for free and then guarentee their income out of their own pockets for the first 12 months of Practice. That's what Barristers do. For Free. #UK#Justice
Exclusive: Striking barristers are not responsible for a “disaster of justice” facing Britain, the head of Rape Crisis has said
She says barristers "are boldly taking a stand to push for ...a justice system that is functioning and intact and effective”
https://t.co/pYUZQvsfBV
@ScottCooper1970 @vanessa9sjs This doesn’t seem right. Contributions to legal aid are determined after all necessary expenditure and cover all hearings. It’s still very unfair in its assessment
Does £10.30 an hour on a murder case seem reasonable to you @MoJGovUK@DominicRaab@Dines4Dales? Or does that sound "irresponsible"?That is what I will be paid for defending a vulnerable teenager charged with the most serious of criminal offences. (Thread 1/4)
Cutting someone’s pay by nearly 30 percent and then saying you are offering them “an increase of 15%” is just gaslighting.
What @TheCriminalBar are asking for is not an increase in real terms at all.
Criminal barristers are balloting on walking out of court indefinitely, as Justice Secretary @DominicRaab thinks that self-employed junior criminal barristers should be happy to work at rates below minimum wage.
His own political advisers, however, are worth £80k plus benefits.
Barristers’ strike disrupts more than 6,000 court hearings in first 19 days as action escalates| The Independent
“figures suggest that for every full working week that criminal barristers strike, around 1,300 cases, including 300 trials, will be disrupted” https://t.co/OM9OcFJ5G1
Good morning to paragraph 1.38 of the independent Bellamy Report that not only made it clear extra funding for the criminal justice system was urgent - it also clearly stated it was *needed* to ‘reduce the backlog’.
I underlined it in pink and *everything*
Only 53% of Crown Courts have a judge to sit in them. If members of @TheCriminalBar keep leaving where do the Crown Court judges of tomorrow come from?