Practitioner groups are today pondering whether to accept Michael Gove’s offer to suspend the government’s latest cut to legal aid fees. News emerged late on Friday that the lord chancellor had made the offer last week. However, he will withdraw the gesture should criminal defence solicitors resume their nationwide boycott in protest at the Ministry of Justice’s reforms. A second 8.75% fee cut was introduced on 1 July, which prompted thousands of solicitors to boycott legal a