JUDGES & EXTRA FEES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1167, 30 June 1911, Page 6

JUDGES & EXTRA FEES.

! THE" BRITISH PRACTICE, !..'"■■ . '.-.■■ ~—... ~ - [STATEMENT .SIR: FREDERICK f ■; "." "> pollock. , ! In view of tho controversy over the i Governments- payment, to-Sir Robert '■ Stout of,'several, thousand'.pounds,over ( and above his .official • salary for extraI official work; it member of tho local mr |. took steps to obtain , an unquestionable ■ opinion upon the British practice. _■ . [■.•• He accordingly wrote a. letter ot inquiry to Sir Frederick Pollock, P.C.. tho ■■eminent jurist, and ho has received tho. ■following reply, dated May 19, .1911. from s the office, of- the "Law Quarterly. Ivc-!--.',view":— ''•'■'■ ' : "Dear sir,—ln reply to your ■letter of March 31,-Sir Frederick Pollock asks me 'to say that'he does not know of .'any case f of a Judgo" of tho English/ High Court , «. being paid specially for extra-official work : performed by him. Roynl Commissioners i Wβ are Dot | paid for their services in j any case. ' Any exceptional caso of pay? i lae'nt fpr-foryices on a special commission f could bb traced' in tlve Estimates, which I aro all .printed.and circulated as Governt nient papers. ; " ....,--..•■ "No doubt-tho salaries- of ■ the; Law K ' Xbrds (.C6000)- : and Judges' of . tho -High f' Court (.£5000). are ample, and would probi ably be considered, to. allow a margin [.'-■ for any ..small extra services rendered to ! itho countrj;. and tho practice of asking Judges 'to Tindcrtake .extrawork ■ appearsj .to bo quite" recent.- -.Obviously, as Editor ;/ «f the : 'Law,. Quarterly .Review,' Sir , .-P. i Pollock'. cannot undertake to comment in ?■-. tho. 'Review' on facts which are not fully I / and specifically before him. , '; '• I ■"-. "I hope 'I ■ha.yo..maclD it-, clear that in [no ease is any payment made, to .members,-' }:. judicial cr otherwise; of a' Royal : ComV-. mission here. I don't know what has , been done .iiy'lnternational. cases like-the . Behring Sea! ami Venezuela arbitrations. .)—Your tr.uly, Edward Potton. "P.S.—Serviced on commissions'lfere are' I, frequently ■α-ewarded with.; some, sort of J. lonour. It is a common thing for a chair-. i man of a commission to get a K.C.B. or ;:>,-P.C.y..,.-' - ■-.-• :/;■■• ■; ■-■•■- -• .-•;•'■" -