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Clarke reforms lead to ‘financial hardship’ for barristers

Lawyers complain of severe payment delays after minister’s shake-up of legal aid

By Alex Varley-Winter | 14 November 2011

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Delayed payments: Kenneth Clarke

The government has gone back on a deal that it made made with lawyers

Michael Turner, vice-chairman, Criminal Bar Association

Criminal barristers are blaming an overhaul of legal aid for causing them severe financial hardship as a result of lengthy delays to payments.

The change was an initial step in a wide range of reforms to legal aid in England and Wales overseen by Kenneth Clarke, the Conservative justice secretary.

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