“"Devilling", properly so called, by which is designated in England the system whereby a young barrister assists a busy counsel by digesting and annotating his papers, looking up authorities, drafting opinions, and sometimes holding his brief for him in Court, is not know and indeed is not permitted in Scotland.”

— Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 26

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