News of the CBA rally reaches the ears of the Lord Chancellor…
The Morning after the CBA rally
17 Sunday Nov 2013
Posted in Uncategorized
17 Sunday Nov 2013
Posted in Uncategorized
News of the CBA rally reaches the ears of the Lord Chancellor…
c0unse1 
Reblogged this on criminalbarassociation and commented:
We listened to Shailesh Vara on Channel 4 News with resigned disgust. We have been desperately trying to engage with the MoJ over the vast savings to be made through the elimination of #MoJWaste. They promised to engage with us, but have failed to do so. The silence from Petty France on the subject has been deafening.
They are just plain lazy. They do not want to do the work that we have offered to do for them. They prefer to throw away the seed corn by slashing fees beyond economic possibility, let alone reality, because tracking down and stopping waste would be too much like hard work even though it would save many millions more than they would, cutting our fees.
We’ll just have to take it up with Danny Alexander I guess
Still, Mr. Vara continues to peddle the same disingenuous tosh about our fees, against a background of ministers complaining that they have been accused of lying.
Start telling the truth, and engaging with the Criminal Bar.
In the meantime, have a good laugh at yourselves for once.
We can! (And yes, we know you read this)
barristers are supposed to be reasonably good at catching out LIARS – here the public can see for themselves,without assistance, that this lord chancellor/minister of justice’s initiative is ideologically bereft and founded on lies – a desperate irony given his post. What an absolute disgrace that the MOJ should peddle the same lies again and again and again; but the electorate are no one’s fools.
SLR said –
Let us not forget the cynical decision by David Cameron to replace Ken C, a lawyer, with a non-lawyer as Lord Chancellor (first time in over 300 years I believe), who can then wreak havoc without even realising it and who can only listen to his civil servants and trot out the figures and arguments they give him. Poor soul !!!! He doesn’t know any different because he has no first hand knowledge of the system he has been instructed to savage. His worst offence is that he is not prepared to listen to those who do know something about the criminal justice system, apparently adopting the Blair mantra that anyone, who is involved in the area to be affected, and might actually know something about how it works and the likely effect of proposed changes, and doesn’t instantly lie down and submit, is part of the “forces of conservatism” and “would say that wouldn’t they”.
What a bunch!