No question of priority arose to embarrass me in my loyalties to the railway companies until the Parliamentary session of 1924-25... In Scotland the Dean of Faculty [of Advocates] is the deciding authority... He pointed out that the L. M. S. Company which was claiming me was not the L. M. S. Company which had retained me... So I was awarded to the L. N. E. R. and duly appeared in the Committee Rooms on their behalf.

p. 138-9 - A Man of Law's Tale (1952)