As well as abandoning their own cases on Friday, barristers will refuse to accept returns.
"Criminal barristers will no longer be able to accept cases funded by legal aid as they will be financially unviable.
One alleged multiple fraud case at Southwark crown court has already been boycotted by barristers, leaving defendants facing the prospect of representing themselves.
The largest demonstration will be outside parliament where barristers and solicitors – many in wigs and gowns – will assemble and then march on the Ministry of Justice to hand in a modern copy of the Magna Carta, the 13th-century charter which first imposed legal restraints on executive power.
Among barristers, there will be interest in the course of action taken by the prime minister's brother, Alexander Cameron QC.
But Guy Burkill at Three New Square, one of the UK's leading patent barristers who specialises in telecoms-related patents, says that with worldwide sales of mobiles passing 1bn units a year, "the stakes are enormous – fractions of a penny per handset are worth fighting over".
Over time a great number of brilliant, diverse solicitors and barristers brought passion and relevant experience to their profession.
Most of the rest came from small shareholders with addresses in southern England: from bankers, barristers, spinsters, retired army officers and people known simply as "gentlemen".
I did not always have the benefit of solicitors and barristers – I simply could not afford it – and was often up late at night working on statements, trawling through seemingly endless papers and documents.
Ninety-eight percent of criminal barristers have already said they will refuse to work at the reduced rates for complex murder, fraud and rape cases".
"Ah yes … barristers are very clever people who are very good at solving problems.
