EARNINGS OF BARRISTERS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9124, 7 June 1895, Page 3

EARNINGS OF BARRISTERS.

How much do successsful barristers make in a year ? Some particulars given in the number of London Home for April throw some light on the question. It is commonly said that Sir Charles Russell .never made less than £20,000 or £25,000 per annum for many years preceding his recent promotion to the bench. Large as his income was, there were half a dozen men at the. bar running it very close. Both Sir Richard Webster and Sir Edward Clarfce are making fully £20,000 a year; and men like Mr R. B. Finlay, Sir Henry James. Mr J. T. Murphy, Mr Law«on Walton, Mr Fielding Dickens, Mr W. Willis, Mr Cozens Hardy, Mr Graham Hastings and others are credited with almost equally large earnings. But most Q.C.s are, of course, very much less fortunate. There are large and small incomes also amongst the members of the junior bar. Men like Mr English Harrison and Mr R. M. Bray are, the writer of the article aaya. kept actively engaged with good and remunerative work bringing in from £1000 to £5000 a year, but probably half of the men at the junior bar are not making £150 a year, while many men of the highest attainments are no. making, and have not made for years past, £50 a year.