"As a trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland I have read many applications for help in the pay…"

""Devilling", properly so called, by which is designated in England the system whereby a young barrister assists a bus…"

"In those days there were no Scottish Q.C.s or K.C.s, though it was customary to confer the rank of Queen's Counsel on…"

"It seemed a wonderful thing to me to be a member of a great Faculty whose history and traditions went back to the ear…"

"But while in these first years the prospects of success are apt to seem remote and high hopes seem doomed to frustrat…"

"Early every morning a van calls to take his brief bag up to the Parliament House, where his papers are trustingly dis…"

"The wide experience to be gained at the Scots Bar has its advantages. It does not enable one to become such an expert…"

"In a speech which he made in the House of Commons in 1804 the Lord Advocate, Charles Hope, claimed to be not only pub…"

"A member of the Bar is not entitled to refuse his services to anyone who seeks to employ him. He has been said to be …"

"This was no doubt due in part to economic reasons, for Scotland before the era of modern industrial developments was …"