Barristers crying about legal aid fees

Both your articles state how much they get paid.

I am absolutely shocked it's that low.

At present those practicing in the district court are paid €25.20 for a remand hearing, €50.40 for a plea in mitigation at a sentence hearing and €67.50 where a matter goes to a full trial

The report highlighted that some barristers earn as little as €25 a day for some criminal cases and Senator Ward said that junior barristers have an especially tough time

When the country went bankrupt over the moneylenders the IMF wanted to put manners on the whole legal business but were blocked at every turn

the whole thing is rotten to the core and will never change

Interesting to use the word "crying" here when it seems that you are crying just as hard. Yes — there really is nothing more deplorable than a justice system that ensures that the individual citizen has good legal representation against the infinite resources of the State.

It's an endless circle of crying on here that one minute the new hate speech bill represents the overreach of the State and the crushing of individual liberties — and the next minute the hard working barristers, who are instrumental to evening the odds between the powerless and the power of the State, are the enemies of the people.

I work in the legal field myself and I can tell you, if money is your primary motivation the criminal bar is certainly not the place to be going. So the perceptions about lawyers rolling in it relate to a fairly select few when it comes to representing defendants in criminal proceedings.

They did unfortunately

Ah sure they don't have a leg to stand on:

2002:

2019:

2022:

https://www.newstalk.com/uncategorized/criminal-legal-aid-payments-barristers-half-million-1318893

Point being that there is a fair pot of cash out there and it seems that some practices are specialising in FLA cases, hence the lower earners are either picking the poorly paid cases, or aren't competing to the same level.

Some of the yarns and excuses that free legal aid solicitors come up with for criminals terrorising the law abiding is scandalous and they should be ashamed of themselves coming out with such rubbish .

Jaysus, I dunno. The only ones working in Waterford court daily for about 8 years didn't seem to be struggling, and had great social lives. Laughing at us with their revolving door state sponsored clients. Cry me a river for those who defend the indefensible.

Aye. Pair of lowlife filth jailed yesterday in Cork for robbing a 93 year old woman's handbag and giving her life changing injuries in the process. 313 convictions between them IIRC - think of that the next time these defence barrister parasites are looking for more taxpayer cash. In this case they only pled guilty on the day of the case when the old woman turned up in court - doubtless the impoverished legal eagles paid to defend them by many posters in this site had them told to stay schtum in case the old bird kicked the bucket before the trial.

The legal fraternity are a large part of the reason that insurance industry is in the toilet, charging in the region of 40% of the settlement as their fee. My heart bleeds.