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10.
LEGAL
(i.c.Crown Counsel and Magistrates)
The minimum salary allotted to the junior legal
and judicial appointments under the existing salary scheme in
the East African Dependencies varies between £600 and 0720 in
the different dependencies.
With the establishment of the Colenial Legal
Service an endeavour is being maue to recruit for the Service
candidates who, after being called to the Bar, have demonstrated
their capacity and suitability for a Government appointment
by practical and successful experience in the Courts; a nu in
pursuance of this policy the Secretary of State inuicated in
his circular despatch of the 1st March, 1933, that the transfer
of Administrative Officers to legal appointments should in
future be restricted to exceptional cases. On this basis
legal officers will be recruited at a considerably later age
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if not all, officers in other departments, anu
they will be men to whom it will be necessary to offer
Aufficiently attractive terms to induce them to surrenuer
their prospects at the Bar. In view of the general reductions which are proposed in the salary scales applicable to other departments, it might normally be expected that the initial salary for junior legal and judicial cfficers could
appropriately be fixed in all cases at any rate at 36JJ, a
rate which already obtains in a number of dependencies.
Such advice however as it has been possible to obtain on this
question suggests that this figure is likely to be insufficient to attract canuiuates with the experience which
is now regarded as necessary, unu that as much as 2700 or 3720
may have to be offered.
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