Advocates, Faculty of, the bar of Scotland. The Faculty was instituted along with the College of Justice in 1532. Members are entitled to plead in every Court in Scotland, and also before the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and Parliamentary committees. In the Supreme Courts in Scotland they have an exclusive right of audience except (1) where a party conducts his own case, and (2) in cases falling under s. 3 of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act, 1933. The head of the Faculty is Dean of Faculty, who is elected annually. He takes precedence of all other members of the Bar except the Lord Advocate; these two and the Solicitor-General for Scotland in Court sit within the Bar. Before 1897 only the Law Officers and Deans of Faculty were appointed King's counsel, but since that year it has been the practice confer this honour on distinguished Counsel recommended by the Lord Justice-General. They do not sit within the Bar. The Library of the Faculty was in 1925 transferred to the nation and is now the National Library of Scotland.
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