 In 1997, the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Robert Carswell, wrote "I have little doubt myself that this is all part of an ongoing based campaign to have the office of Queen's Counsel replaced by a rank entitled Senior Counsel, or something to that effect".The independent Bar is organised as the Faculty of Advocates and its members are known not as barristers but as advocates.The position of Queen's Counsel was not recognised before 1868.