DR. MACDONALDI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether any steps are being taken, or are intended to be taken, by the Government, to confine Procurator Fiscals in Scotland to their official duties as such, so as to put a stop to the present system of such public officials competing with ordinary solicitors for legal work in the Scotch Courts?
§ *MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSONAs vacancies occur in these offices, the question of restriction to the official duties is always considered, and in recent cases they have been so restricted. Arrangements have also recently been completed by which the Procurator Fiscal at Lochmaddy has been restricted from private practice.