to wonder why Chris Grayling's plans to smash our justice system appear to have gone unnoticed here?

[rooiewooie]

I've been lurking on here for 3 years now. Never plucked up the courage to post until now.

Barristers in the North are "on strike" (ie meeting) to discuss the latest threat to legal aid and our justice system.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100213057/its-the-end-of-the-legal-system-as-we-know-it/

AIBU to wonder why this is not being discussed on MN?

I agree with everyone that this is a very serious issue. Found a lot about it on barristerblogger.com/?p=110

Now he wants teachers to run prisons! Is there no end to this nonsense?!

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10033792/Prisons-could-be-opened-next-to-schools-says-Grayling.html#disqus_thread

my position is that I am worried that the country is sleepwalking into some kind of Robocop style nightmare. I don't fully understand all the issues (I'm not a lawyer!) and I hate to get all conspiracy theory about it but I find it really sinister that there is hardly anything being reported about it in the media

I agree. I work in the legal system, on the civil, rather than criminal court side and the future is looking pretty bleak there too. I think the problem is that the public don't need a lawyer for anything at all for most of the time, so it's all very remote. When and if the time comes that they do, I suspect there will be an outcry....but it will be too late :(