The Ministry of Justice says it has made an offer to the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) in an attempt to end the barristers’ strike.
It comes as the High Court in London ruled that judges who refused to extend custody time limits and released defendants on bail because of the barristers’ strike “fell into legal error.”
Brandon Lewis replaced Dominic Raab as justice secretary earlier this month and on Thursday he announced he had made the CBA a new pay offer which included £54 million ($58 million) of new funding and claimed they would be putting it to their members in a ballot….