During the strikes, barristers will not accept new cases or take on work for colleagues whose cases have overrun.
More than 1,000 cases will be impacted on each day of the strikes, the Criminal Bar Association said.
By then, she told BBC's Today programme earlier, it would be too late to help and would not do enough to stem the flow of junior barristers leaving the bar. As of the end of April, there was a backlog of 58,271 cases, according to HM Courts and Tribunal Service. Forty per cent of junior criminal barristers left the profession in one year and more than a quarter of specialist criminal barristers - around 300 - quit in the last five years, according to the CBA.
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