Ultimately, the answer being proposed to the catastrophic position which this government has created in criminal justice, is to say - lawyer, work harder and for longer. It is a proposal which could only come from those who have forgotten (or never knew)

The amount of time and energy is already being spent by people who are already running on empty. Saturday courts for “normal@ working, like evening courts, is one step too far. I shall say “no” but it’s easy for me at my stage. I shall support all those in my chambers who say NO

I will support colleagues who say NO - NO to further working for virtually nothing, NO to driving lawyers into mental and physical exhaustion or worse, NO to participating in the pretence that clearing backlogs is more important than doing justice and NO more being disrespected!