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Criminal barristers are preparing to step up their protests over cuts to fees as Labour calls on the government to abandon a payments scheme for publicly funded cases.

The most senior judges in England and Wales have criticised the government's legal aid reforms, warning of more miscarriages of justice as talented lawyers abandon criminal and publicly funded cases.

Thousands of barristers and solicitors working on publicly funded cases are refusing to enter court for a half-day demonstration aimed at forcing the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, into a last-minute rethink of proposals designed to save £220m a year.

These cases, like so many publicly funded cases, have a wider significance beyond the immediate interests of the clients.

One of the Mansfield CAB clients, David Carman, has been so incensed by the threatened cuts, he has brought legal-aid funded cases against the two councils.

As a result of the new scheme about 100 barrister chambers have refused to take on new publicly funded cases since 1 April.

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"Two hedge fund cases are good, but not good enough," he said.

He believes legal aid is "the cheapest and simplest" way to fund cases.

But claimants say the growing impossibility of funding cases such as the Epilim action is leaving pharmaceutical companies increasingly unaccountable.

During the 1970s, however, courts began to use the lodestar method to calculate fee awards in common fund cases.