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Interesting questions below. Boiled down:

How many barristers' chambers routinely take on criminal work?

How many are actually taking action? About 100 is too vague.

Same questions but substitute barristers for chambers.

Is there a variation in action and inaction based on year of call? Youngsters will be financially vulnerable; the more mature may worry about preferment. Some may be in criminal practice which does not rely on legal aid.

Are there geographical variations? If so, what?

Is there a listing crisis? If so where and what?

Are solicitors stepping in to take cases? Or declining?

The lack of hard information leads me to think that the system is hiccoughing along at the moment. Possibly unaffected cases are still in the system and are being expedited to fill gaps. So the crunch has not yet been reached.

If this is so, then the DoJ may be hoping to starve the protesters into submission before it does.

Those, if any, reading this and in the field will have information to share. Let us have it. Or maybe an LSG reporter could find out?