By Judith Burns BBC News Image source, PA Media Criminal cases in courts throughout England and Wales face additional disturbance as lawyers getin a 2nd week of strike action. The walkouts started last week in a long-running conflict over pay and conditions. Members of the Criminal Bar Association have turneddown a proposed 15% charge increase, stating some junior lawyers presently make less than the perhour minimum wage. But ministers state a common criminal lawyer would get £7,000 a year more. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) is asking for a 25% increase in pay for legal help work, representing individuals who might not otherwise payfor legalrepresentatives. The federalgovernment states average profits priorto costs for criminal lawyers in 2019-20 were £79,800, although it confesses junior lawyers typically make a portion of this. The CBA’s 4 weeks of action intensifies to a three-day walk-out this week, increasing by one day a week to a five-day strike from 18 July. Rallies on Monday will be held outdoors the Royal Courts of Justice in London, plus crown courts in Nottingham, Birmingham and Liverpool. Justice on hold Barristers state last week’s two-day strike saw 8 out of 10 cases at London’s Old Bailey interferedwith, and walk-outs
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