26 JANUARY 1934, Page 21

JUSTICE . IN _SCOTLAND

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-My attention haS. been .drawn to a statement under the above heading in your issue of January-?.9th. According to the learned reviewer, the author- in -question `! suggests that an Italian; and not a French, Model must be looked for " in the case of the- Scottish College of Justice. No suggestion of the- kind was made. Indeed, it was definitely stated that there was no serious thought !" of. reproducing an Italian -institution in Scotland : that was as impossible, at I he stage of evolution which had been reached there, as an imitation of the Parlement of Paris." - The main point of the book was to show that the Court of Session was an indigenous