was the subject of my letter. Under S. 9(2) of Cap. 221 and the Rules made thereunder their remuneration in legal aid cases is controlled by the Chief Justice.
YOUR REVISED SCALE.
You refer to the 1959 scale plus an increase to meet the fall in the purchasing power of money. Surely the scale in 1959 reproduces that instituted in 1952. Your suggestion of an increase seems to be based entirely on the fees payable for the first case of a year. It was because the majority of barristers do more than one case per annum that I said your previous scale was "retrogressive for the majority of barristers". If the norm is assumed at three cases per year the average brief fee would be $600 without taking into account any increase.
I must leave it to my successor in office to deal further with this matter. I would record my regret and disappoint- ment at the fruitlessness of a year's communications with you on this subject.
Your sincerely, (Sd.) S. V. GITTINS Chairman.
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