§ 80. Mr. WATTasked the Secretary for Scotland whether members of the College of Justice in Scotland are whole-time servants of the Crown or whether they are permitted by their appointments to engage in any other pursuits for which they receive remuneration?
§ The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)I presume my hon. Friend's question is intended to refer not to 567 members of the College of Justice—a term which would include, among others, the Faculty of Advocates and the Society of Writers to the Signet—but to the Senators of the College, in other words, to the Judges of the Court of Session. There is nothing in the terms of the Commission granted to His Majesty's Judges which prevents them from engaging in pursuits beyond the range of their judicial duties. Those duties, of course, have a paramount claim, and it is for a Judge himself to determine in accordance with propriety what he may do and what he should refrain from doing apart from his judicial work.
§ Mr. WATTDoes the Department of my right hon. Friend or my right hon. Friend himself encourage Judges in Scotland to become directors of companies'?