“I found ample scope in the work of the tribunals that were open to me, and in the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the Parliamentary Committee Rooms. I enjoyed a large and varied practice, almost entirely in English cases and cases from the Dominions.”

—  Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), In London, p. 49

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