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Solicitors Strike Back Over Flat Fees | Cork News
Solicitors are staging a major protest against new flat-fee legal aid rules, threatening to halt all work in key Dublin courts—including the District, Circuit, and Central Criminal Courts—after already pulling out of legal aid services. The Department of Justice’s move, aimed at curbing delays caused by repeated adjournments, has sparked backlash from lawyers who argue the system now pays only at case conclusion, stifling their ability to earn a living. Minister Jim O’Callaghan, a former barrister, defends the reforms as necessary to modernize a system that once paid little for criminal work…
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