R Hutchings

#easyjet @easyJet Posted this morning about how I’ve spent 10+ hours / 3 months telling you my wife (‘booker’ for flight to family wedding) died suddenly in Feb. Given up with your incompetence. Now see you’ve just sent an email… to her email. Appalling.

#easyjet 2/2 She’s still down as a passenger for a flight to a family wedding in 48hrs time. I can’t log in properly. I have to pay extra for baggage. I’ve spent 10+ hours trying to sort this. You have utterly compounded my grief.

#easyjet 1/2 I have told you in multiple emails over the last three months that my wife died in Feb; I need to transfer ‘booker’ to me; and cancel her ticket. I’ve sent her death certificate 3 times (acknowledged).

@easyJet 2/2 She’s still down as a passenger for a flight to a family wedding in 48hrs time. I can’t log in properly. I have to pay extra for baggage. I’ve spent 10+ hours trying to sort this. You have utterly compounded my grief.

@easyJet 1/2 I have told you in multiple emails over the last three months that my wife died in Feb; I need to transfer ‘booker’ to me; and cancel her ticket. I’ve sent her death certificate 3 times (acknowledged).

Q1 2022 3 months to 31 March 2022 1,568 more trials delayed than those concluding 6,734 trials delayed Comprising: 1,907 ineffective record quarterly high ineffective trials  in 8 years of official MOJ data 4,827 trials vacated from court lists most in any quarter in 7 years

@MoJGovUK Welcome back! My favourite Lord Bellamy quote is when he said in 2021 that criminal legal aid needs to be increased “as soon as possible” and that there was “no scope for further delay”. I wonder what his view is of the MoJ’s decision to delay any increase to 2024/25?

Dear all Crown Court Judges: Please understand criminal defence solicitors don't have 'spare' people to attend where no defence barrister. We don't even have enough people to cover our own, already overwhelming professional obligations. See: CLAIR. (And I'm here for questions.)

Imagine if Doctors had to recruit, interview and train Junior Drs for free and then guarentee their income out of their own pockets for the first 12 months of Practice. That's what Barristers do. For Free. #UK #Justice

@pritipatel @BorisJohnson You have achieved nothing other than to make our country smaller and meaner. You took pleasure in cruelty; most enthusiastically so when you could target it at society’s most vulnerable. Your departure improves politics more than anything else in your career has or ever could.

@CrimeLineLaw @CrimeGirI @BarristerSecret @ne_circuit a contribution to the cause in this morning's @yorkshirepost

This is why we are striking. These are the prosecutors, defenders and judges of tomorrow, being paid less than minimum wage. We lost 40% of them in a single year. And @DominicRaab won’t even consider getting off his deckchair to do anything about it.

1. Me, (last night), explaining to my brother why my trial this week didn’t go ahead… 2. My brother taking less time than @DominicRaab to get the perfectly obvious point. @TheCriminalBar @CourtsIdle

You will struggle to find a better article that perfectly encapsulates the issues affecting both barristers and solicitors when it comes to publicly funded criminal defence. @Barristerblog newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022…

Policy advisor to lord chancellor @DominicRaab gets £73,500 - £117,800 a year + pension - to help him cook up drivel, like he spouted to @MailOnline today. Junior criminal barristers earn £12,200 a year to uphold rule of law. Is this right, Mr Raab? civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

It is a poor reflection of how our society values the things that are important that many criminal barristers do not even earn a living wage whereas those of us arguing about money and property are generally well paid. I fully support @TheCriminalBar

Evidence, if it were needed, of how little @jcartlidgemp understood the basics of his brief as justice minister. His brilliant plan would (A) Cost far more than it costs to pay independent barristers (B) Instantly create a national shortage of barristers available to prosecute

Client of good character. Offence date Jan 2020, trial supposed to start this week, just been adjourned to Nov 2023, due to no judge available . Don’t believe anybody who tells you the CJS is properly funded or fit for purpose @DominicRaab

Today my attempted murder trial (pros) was adjourned. The court building is not fit to be opened. No funding to fix it. I have done weeks and weeks of prep for which I get paid £0. It has been listed for 2023 when I cant be there. @JoSidhuQC @DominicRaab @Kirsty_Brimelow

Dozens of trials will be postponed this week because @MoJGovUK and @DominicRaab can't be bothered to talk to @TheCriminalBar about settling our dispute. Meanwhile more juniors will leave crime for better paid work and the backlog of cases will only get longer. It's Raab's fault.