LEADERS AT THE BAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 5

LEADERS AT THE BAR.

Changes, in the. law officer ship of tho , Crown, consequent on the; death of Sir LawGon Walton, have brought/. to the front the' question!' of sacrifices made by a popular leader at .the Bar <m;accepting office (writes a London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald). The new Solicitor-General 'makes none, j his I practice •at the Bar * r -iiever having reached the &xm he will draw in his newToffice.T *It :is a- different thing with ! Mr.: Rufus -Isaacs,* who was in the- running for the post, and '^was i backed by the Bar. It'^^esfiiriateo 1 ' that his. . professional earnings amount to £24,000 a year. Under the new' regulaontis, which forbid .private practice, his I salary as ■'Splifcrtor-General, including fees, ! would-not toucK a. third of- that "princely income. -Tetl have good reason, to know that, r had the poof^ Been' offered to him, Mr . Isaacs . was w preparedvto make themoney sacrifice.- ■ " - . i i A historic * case^in which analogous course. was:.deliberately..takem is that of the late Sir William rHarcourt. • At the i time he entered P&jlianient and devoted himself to '.politics- jhe'nwas i- in > receipt of lan assured growing 1 of £15,000 a year. . Had'his?practice.laiin.-in -the courts, of Common Law, he might- have kept his salary with, hifl. seat. With a member, of the . Parliamentary Bar .the case is different, i On his election to tho House of ..Commons; he.i became - ipso facto eligible for j membership of. commifttees sitting upstairs, which exercise a- judicial faculty. It- woukL.be. obviously inexpedient v that: 'one ishouldi > alternately serve . in the . capacity; .of ; advocate and j judge. .-. - Sir. William , Harcourt chose to; labor in the field of politics, and throughout a brilliant' career he never earned more than a third of the income, won at the Bar. , A fess ' familiar case wherein, .money has ,been sacrified to. political ambition is that of. Mr -Haldane. .,- Working in the inmer civil courts,, w 1 ; ch do, not provide sensational reports for the' news- * papers, the Secretory of Statje fcjr. War was little known as a practising b"arris : tor. The.j fact ..jsy .when he accepted office, w.ith its qalajry .of £5000, a, year, he. was earning ,£16,000 a year-.at "the. Bar.' Mr . Ajsquith -.rather improved his financial position. 'by, returning; to^ office, since he bad,,J?een;>abl%to recapture; only £4jooba year -out of;cthD fffees* US V was making - when, « at ,jtHe - invitati6ph.jof''Mi! . Gladstone, t -.ha-^abandoned, priyafis^: practice,, lor, public, office. w One. oftjtlUr most serious rconsiderationi^ that comV rjfeefore a - -successful, "barrister • contempQating Ministerial, office -is that once_ having withdrawn ,£rom, the arena it, is" impossible -_ti> regain '^he/ old status. During absence others havo stepped- in and haye'^cuopeclj/for themselves, a- ;posifeon from ; wticbr they , are not to bje .displaced by a. 'new claimant. J ~ „- . ,:Sir Edward Carson^ is "still suffering' from this, inexorable -rule. , He was making £10,000 a year when, at the instance of Mr Balfour, he accepted the SolicitorGeneralship. That -involves immediate loss of at lea&b £2000 a. year, immabcrially assuming that when, .'the wheel of Fate turned,' and the ins of office 'founds themsolves ' the . outs,' : he ■ ..could ,go Back to chambers and find his old clients waiting' for rhim with" the acenstomed/briefs. This turned out so far otherwise' that, according to* Bar- gossip, the. ex-Solicitor-G-erieral is not makiag more- than -£4OOO .ri'-yeari'-'- ■ ~

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