The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday January 19 1914

The final Report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the causes of delay in the King's Bench Division was issued in the middle of December last. [...] As it is entirely at the option of the Solicitor and his client to employ a Leader who requires a so-called "fancy" or " excessive" fee the cost of paying a proportionate fee to the Junior so far as its increase over his ordinary fee is concerned is and ought to be regarded as a necessary incdent in the cost of briefing such exceptional Leader; and the Council think that the client should be [...] It is obvious that if the present two-thirds rule were abrogated there would in the result be a strong tendency to increase still further the fee of the Leader at the expense of the fee of the Junior—a change which would be of no benefit to the public. [...] The Bar Council regard it to be contrary to professional etiquette to charge fancy' Special feest The following extract from the Report of the Council will make the matter clear. [...] Held further that the proper course for the Judge would have been to direct the Teiver to arrange for payment to him of one half of the salary earned by the insolvent.