IN THE Sunday Express last week there was an article
called `Is Life too Lush for the Lawyers?' To select a few eminent QCs, think of a large figure to put down as their income, and fail to point out that tax on most of these incomes will be paid at the rate of 18s. 6d. in the pound may be all very well. But the article went on to say : If you want your boy to rise to riches these days, you know what to do'—send him to the bar. It would be difficult to give more misleading advice. The bar is well known to be just about the most competitive and pre- carious of all careers and hundreds of barristers have to give it up every year. The writer pointed out that the legal profession is largely controlled by the Bar Council. the Inns of Court and the Law Society and complained of the rules laid down by these bodies, though all the rules he mentioned are sensible and necessary. He ended with the splendid recommendation : 'The case of the legal profession should be referred promptly to the Monopolies Commission.' Having discovered that the legal profession has a monopoly of lawyers, he might have added that soldiers have a monopoly of the military profession and recommended that the War Office 'be referred promptly to the Monopolies Commission.'
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