Career
Mackarness went in for the law and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1879. He practiced as an advocate of the Cape Supreme Court for some years, was made Revising Barrister for Harrow, Middlesex in 1889 and for London in the same year - Revising Barristers are Counsel of not less than seven years' standing appointed to revise the lists of parliamentary voters. He was appointed Recorder of Newbury in 1894 and was Professor of Roman-Dutch Law at University College, London from 1905-06. In 1911, he was given a County Court judgeship in Sussex.
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