How Much Does He Earn?

No 20: Sir Richard Scott, Lord Justice of Appeal, currently chairing an inquiry into the fiasco of the Matrix Churchill trial, UK defence exports to Iraq, and whether the Government was prepared to withhold documents which proved that the accused men were innocent.

Age: 59.

Salary: Currently pounds 99,510 but rising to pounds 104,922 next month.

Perks: Has a clerk. Gets to sit next to Presiley Baxendale QC, counsel to the inquiry.

Home: A flat in London and a house in Buckinghamshire.

Education: Michaelhouse College, Natal, South Africa; University of Cape Town; Trinity College, Cambridge; University of Chicago; Inner Temple.

Family: Married with two sons and two daughters.

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