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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 like a cabman on the rank: it is his duty to place himself at the disposal of the first person who hails him and he has no right to exercise any discrimination... This principle also has its origin in the conception of the special position of the advocate in the public administration of justice. It is essential that no citizen should be unable to procure the adequate presentation of his case in Court, however unpopular or even unworthy he may be.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Already in my own time the volume of business was much less than in the heyday of the Victorian age, when the developments of the industrial era stimulated the enterprise of promoters and led to the construction of our modern railways, docks, and other undertakings of public utility. That was the era which my friend Walter Elliot has so aptly called the century of equipment'.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Early every morning a van calls to take his brief bag up to the Parliament House, where his papers are trustingly displayed in his box in the public corridor of the Courts and whence they are brought home again after the day's work.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Born: February 20, 1873

Died: September 5, 1952 (aged 79)

Bio: Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan was a Scottish advocate, judge, Parliamentarian and civil servant.

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