Last August, the Bar Council wrote to members that a government decision on unwinding recession-era fee cuts for criminal barristers was due in a matter of weeks. The circular exuded the confidence of an organisation that had been assured just days earlier by Michael McGrath, then minister for public expenditure, that he was giving the matter his personal attention and that a recommendation would be forthcoming. Well here we are, 30 weeks on, and there’s a fat chance criminal law practitioners who are stuck on 2002 fee rates will be getting news from the government, good or bad, any time…

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