SUBSTANTIAL FEES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUBSTANTIAL FEES

SIR LESLIE SCOTT’S GOOD FORTUNE. A fee of £53,000, with a “refresher” of £2OO a day .during the three months that he w'ill be away, is to be paid to Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P., for work which he has undertaken in India, says the Daily Mail. His total earnings for the three months will therefore bo more than £70,000 —believed to be easily a record fee received by any barrist* r. Sir Leslie Scott left London on December 29 to advise the Indian States and princes as to their legal and constitutional positions with regard to Lite Statutory Commission, and as to the evidence which they are to lay before it. Sir Leslie Scott was SolicitorGeneral in .1922, and is one of the best-known K.U.’s at the bar. Among other large fees paid to English barristers for work in Asia was the £10,500 received by Mr Barrington Ward, K.C., in 1921, for successfully defending a Bagdad merchant accused of instigating a murder. In 1875 Sergeant Ballantine received a similar foe for defending the Gaekwar of Baroda on a charge of attempting to poison Colonel Pliayre, the Resident.