Although barristers and solicitors in attendance claimed that their latest walkout from crown courts in major UK cities was not a strike, a BBC insider said that it appears otherwise as hundreds of lawyers march to Westminster to protest the planned £220 million legal aid fee cuts.
The lawyer for 28 year-old Don Willburn Collins insisted that his client should not be tried for dousing a child with gasoline and setting him on fire at 13 as the state law at that time only allows juveniles at least 14 years of age to be tried for crimes when they reach adulthood.
In the fourth day of hearing of the murder charges against celebrated Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, a doctor testified to court on how he found the athlete a few moments after addressing the screams purportedly by a woman believed to have been Reeva Steenkamp, BBC said.
The presiding judge on Rachel Canning's trial to seek financial support from her parents on the basis of being improperly emancipated rejected the 18 year-old's demands as the outcome of the case could set a precedent to children in the future suing their parents for wants aside from their needs.
