 The reaction to the trial and to Erskine 's speech was tremendous ; upon leaving the court he was given a standing ovation by the attorneys present , many of whom offered him briefs on the spot . Joseph Jekyll reported that the court was " in a trance of amazement " , and Emory Speer wrote that " It is probably true that never did a single speech so completely insure professional success " . Erskine claimed to have received 65 briefs immediately after the trial as a result of the case , which may be an exaggeration , although he undoubtedly did well out of his victory . He became Lord Chancellor in the Ministry of All the Talents and was renowned as an excellent , albeit unorthodox , advocate . Sandwich remained in office until the government fell in 1792 ; Baillie , on the other hand , was not reinstated at the Hospital despite an insistent effort to regain his former position . The events of the trial were replicated in an episode of Garrow 's Law , with William Garrow depicted as representing Baillie ( rather than Erskine ) and his main antagonist , Arthur Hill , replacing Lord Sandwich . 
