{"id":945,"date":"2009-05-02T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:03:30","slug":"how-much-do-barristers-earn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"How much do barristers earn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-948\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/salmon_charles_qc-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"salmon_charles_qc\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Charles Salmon QC<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Many barristers do not earn enough to remain in practice, others have a 7 figure income.<\/p>\n<p>The Minstry of Justice has revealed that for the financial year 2007\/8 the following payments were made from legal aid.<br \/>\nCharles Salmon QC was paid \u00a31,058,000 in criminal cases, Salmon represented Terry Adams, who was jailed for seven years for money laundering.<br \/>\nHoward Godfrey QC earned \u00a3988,000.<br \/>\nDavid Whitehouse QC earned \u00a3959,000.<\/p>\n<p>Tuckers solicitors received \u00a39,302,000 in legal aid payments<br \/>\nJohnson partnership earned \u00a36,192,000.<br \/>\nTwo million people shared a legal aid budget of \u00a32 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/information\/highest-paid-legal-aid.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Salmon QC Many barristers do not earn enough to remain in practice, others have a 7 figure income. The Minstry of Justice has revealed that for the financial year 2007\/8 the following payments were made from legal aid. Charles Salmon QC was paid \u00a31,058,000 in criminal cases, Salmon represented Terry Adams, who was jailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}