Barriarers in England and Wales are fighting for payment after legal aid hack

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During the British and Wales, barristrates left many of the cyber attack, many left many of the income, increased their concerns about the future of the public financed.

Civil Barists working in areas such as family regularityHousing and immigration reported that the financial time and colleagues were unable to pay the bill and the end of the landscape “because they expect the project to repair the SAMA system.

“I couldn’t rent in half of this month, I should have asked my partner to pay myself to pay myself” immigration the lawyer. “As a result, it will affect sensitive people … if people doing this work, it will combine problems with existing legal assistance.”

This The Ministry of Justice said in MayPeople in England and Wales have made financing and recommendations to people who face civil and criminal legal problems and hacked. Continuous means that the barristers could not make invoices and paid to work, and the paid to cause disadvantages due to their multiplicular practices.

Laa, the previous three-month billing, performing an emergency plan to pay a barrer in averages of many, they said they did not want to use it in the future or for the company exaggerated tax documents.

Cyber criminals stole information and addresses, as well as legal assistance applicants, including financial information by 2010.

The government has prevented the information opened by a “known hack group” that prevents the disclosure or releasing the information that was stolen by the well-known Hack Group. The group was not called in the documents to prevent the public from receiving.

Many barrersmen, most self-employed, in addition to VAT and tax payments in this month.

“Stress in this regard is completely incredible,” said Barbara Mills KC, who said he received delayed emails from barrers, said he was talking about paying for the lives of the mortgage.

“I can’t even find words that explain the level of crisis …. It’s already a bent for workload,” Mills added.

Moj refused to comment when the system is back and work. However, a number of barresses, industrial organizations said they expect the situation to continue until the end of the year.

The government announced the first basic financial increase in the first basic financial increase in legal assistance rates for housing and immigration this month, and increased the ratios by 42 percent. Rise is part of the attempt to resolve the government’s justice crisis About 77,000 criminal cases in the crown courts.

“We have taken advanced emergency measures to adjust legal assistance applications, representing people’s representation and system working …. We continue to work as soon as possible to restore our online system.”