The Bar Council of Ireland has recommended strike action by criminal law barristers pursuing pay hikes. The unprecedented decision to implement a one-day withdrawal of services on October 3 has been notified to the government and follows a number of informal walkouts by criminal law practitioners, protesting the government’s refusal to reverse austerity cuts. Barristers have suffered fee reductions of around 40 per cent over the past twenty years while other sectors working in the criminal justice system have enjoyed pay restoration. The government has been notified of the move described in a press release as the “pursuit of a…

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