National Courts - the Powerhouse of Community Law
Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2002-2003, volume 5 of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, OCLC: 6031293860.(2004)Abstract
It is always an honour to be invited to give a named lecture and especially to be invited to do so in this University. But it is an added privilege and also a pleasure to be invited to do so when one has known the person in whose honour the lecture has been named. It is particularly delightful to be able to do so with Lady Mackenzie-Stuart among us. My recollections of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart go back to 1959 and my earliest days as a law student in Edinburgh. In those days we studied for the law degree, with lectures in the morning and evening, while acting as a solicitor’s apprentice during the day. We went to court and in the Scottish custom sat behind counsel. The solicitors for whom I worked acted for the National Union of Mineworkers while Jack Mackenzie-Stuart acted for the National Coal Board. So, as an opponent, I saw this rather debonair and dashing young man who had been in the army during the War and was now a leading junior.