The
Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of
Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the
College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the Society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors. The Society maintains the Category A listed
Signet Library, part of the
Parliament House complex in
Edinburgh, and members of the Society are entitled to the postnominal letters,
WS.