“ The black gown is a relic of the ecclesiastic element that once prevailed in courts of law; and the horsehair wig, which a reforming chancellor may, one day, sweep away, is a survival of the time when men were ashamed to wear their own hair. ”

“ A queens counsellor can never hold a brief against the crown without special permission — that is, he cannot defend a prisoner in any criminal or civil proceedings undertaken by the police or the State. ”

“ The fact that members of the inns were held to be servants of the crown is still felt. It is an article of Magna Charta that justice shall not be sold, and a king’s servant could not receive payment for aiding a subject to secure the benefit of law. Even at the present day a barrister cannot recover by an action at law any fee to which he may be morally entitled. ”