However, the post has been held by a number of distinguished lawyers, for example Bernard O'Dowd in Australia, John Ferguson McLennan specialising in Scottish law (which though enacted entirely in the UK parliament from 1707 until 1999, is distinct from English law), and William Philip Schreiner in South Africa.
Queen's Counsel | Parliamentary Private Secretary | Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010 | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State | Parliamentary Secretary | Parliamentary system | Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | Irish Parliamentary Party | Togolese parliamentary election, 2007 | Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004 | Senior Counsel | Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010 | Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford | parliamentary system | Georgian parliamentary election, 2012 | Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2000 | Office of Legal Counsel | Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 | Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001 | Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | UK Parliamentary by-elections | Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2000 | Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1989 | Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1977 | parliamentary secretary | parliamentary privilege | Parliamentary Labour Party | Parliamentary expenses scandal | Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 | Pair (parliamentary convention) |
He transferred to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel the next year, and excepting two secondments to the Law Commission, stayed there until his retirement, rising first to Deputy Parliamentary Counsel in 1985, and then Parliamentary Counsel in 1991.