An Advocate is:

• the equivalent of an English Barrister.
   
  
• a member of the Faculty of Advocates which distinguishes between junior counsel and senior counsel (also known as "Queen's Counsel").
  
  
• a specialist in presenting cases before courts and tribunals, with rights of audience before the High Court of Justiciary and in giving legal opinions.
  
  
• usually in receipt of instructions indirectly from clients through solicitors (although in many circumstances they can be instructed directly by members of certain professional associations.