Monthly Round-Up SEPTEMBER 2022 Elon Musk Seeks Documents from Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Amid Takeover Row UK Barristers Vote for All-Out Strike Over Pay According to a court filing, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is seeking documents from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as he pursues his legal battle to abandon his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform. Barristers in England and Wales have voted to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike from 5 September. contract, alleging the company defrauded him by concealing the number of fake accounts in its regulatory filings. Twitter has denied Musk’s spam allegations. Both Musk and Twitter have since filed suit against one another. Twitter asked a judge on the Delaware Court of Chancery to order Musk to close the deal. A five-day trial is set to commence on 17 October. Dorsey, who stood down as Twitter’s chief executive in November and left the board in May, was asked for documents and communications about Musk’s April agreement to purchase the social media platform and about its spam accounts. In July, Musk told Twitter he was severing his agreement to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share because he claimed Twitter had violated the deal drop out due to long delays. The CBA is seeking a 25% increase in their legal aid fees, arguing that rates have effectively declined by 28% over the past decade. A 15% rise has been offered by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) from September, but the CBA members have declared that this is not adequate compensation. Approximately 2,300 members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted in favour of escalating their action to a permanent strike over criminal legal aid rates from 5 September, the date when the new UK prime minister is set to take over. Only 9.11% of the members who voted called for all action to be ceased. Meanwhile, just 11.35% voted to continue their current action, which has seen the number of strike days mount over a four-week period. A permanent strike by criminal defence specialist lawyers will cause the majority of crown court trials in England and Wales to be postponed or, in some cases, collapse altogether, as witnesses 6 LAWYERMONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2022
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