HC Deb 19 August 1889 vol 339 cc1646-7
MR. BROADHURST

I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that the Procurator Fiscal at Falkirk is also the legal adviser to the Carron Steamship Company; and, whether Procurator Fiscals are allowed to undertake private practice in cases which may come into conflict with the discharge of their public duties?

* THE LORD ADVOCATE (MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSON, Bute)

I am informed by the Messrs. (lair that while, on some occasions, they have acted professionally for the Carron Steamship Company, they are not its general legal advisers, and that in no instance do they undertake private practice in cases which may possibly come into conflict witht he discharge of their public duties.