@BarristerSecret Complainant instructed solicitor to send a retraction statement to the CPS. Statement not disclosed to the defence as CPS ‘assumed’ the complainants solicitor was also the defendants solicitor.
'Fundamental review' of criminal legal aid is announced by the MOJ, but with the Law Society predicting the extinction of defence lawyers by 2023, is there enough time?
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