“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 the Lord Advocate of the day by admitting him to the English roll of silks… the Scottish roll of Queen's Counsel was instituted… in 1897.”

— Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 27

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“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 the Lord Advocate of the day by admitting him to the English roll of silks… the Scottish roll of Queen's Counsel was instituted… in 1897.”

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