Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan - Committee Quotes

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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
Nothing is more fatal to success at the Parliamentary Bar than to attempt to suppress or misrepresent any point, for if the Committees lose confidence in a counsel's fairness the Parliamentary agents will soon desert him.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
Some of the finest addresses by counsel I have ever heard have been delivered in the Committee Rooms at Westminster... In my judgment it would be difficult to conceive a more satisfactory and impartial tribunal for the disposal of practical questions than a Select Committee of either House. The Lords Committees especially impressed me with their business-like procedure and the ability of their chairmen.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
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.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan