Tuesday, October 16, 2012

In-Court advice centres in the dock as Scottish Legal Aid Board negotiate deal with Hamilton CAB team who sent clients to crooked lawyers posing as dead lawyers

Gilbert Anderson lawyer gets paid by us refers to O'Donnell Sunday Mail 20 May 2012Hamilton In Court Advice Service suspended after media reports of dodgy dealings funded by taxpayers. MEDIA REPORTS of ‘dodgy dealings’ at a Scottish Government funded In-Court advice service based at Hamilton Sheriff Court, where members of the public in desperate need of legal advice have been passed onto crooked lawyers posing as dead lawyers, have apparently led to the suspension of the Citizens Advice administered service while negotiations for new funding take place with the Scottish Legal Aid Board, according to claims made late last week to Diary of Injustice.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) who are in charge of the funding, acknowledged there are on-going negotiations with Hamilton Citizens Advice Bureau over the service. However, a spokesperson for SLAB refused to comment on the status of the current In-Court advice team based at Hamilton, claiming instead that “No public funds are released to projects before they agree to the terms and conditions set by the Board.”

Exclusive  Dodgy Lawyer back at it - Sunday Mail 22 April 2012Investigation revealed Citizens Advice scheme sends consumers to a crooked lawyer posing as dead lawyer. The Sunday Mail newspaper earlier reported on shady goings on at Hamilton In Court advice service, where its employee, Gilbert S Anderson, had been reported to CAB Managers for recommending clients to notorious solicitor John G O’Donnell, who is known to have been rebuked many times by the Law Society of Scotland and even placed on suspension. More on the Sunday Mail investigation can be found here : Crooked lawyer impersonates DEAD COLLEAGUE to lure clients in fraud scam as Law Society of Scotland’s self regulation of solicitors fails yet again

Although Hamilton CAB sought to deny all allegations of impropriety on Mr Anderson’s behalf, the explanations offered by Citizens Advice chiefs did not stand up to scrutiny, and ran counter to evidence provided by victims whose legal interests now appear to have been severely harmed by persons working for the In Court advice service, a matter reported by Diary of Injustice here : Taxpayer funded Court adviser who sent widow to crooked lawyer ‘off the hook’ as Hamilton Citizens Advice Chiefs close ranks with Law Society.

Speaking to Diary of Injustice, a spokesperson for the Scottish Legal Aid Board denied funding had been withdrawn from Hamilton In Court advice service over the media reports relating to Anderson & O’Donnell, instead citing a new application made by Hamilton CAB for fresh public funding.

A spokesperson for the Scottish Legal Aid Board said : “The Board has not withdrawn funding for Hamilton Citizens Advice Bureau’s In-Court Advice Project based at Hamilton Sheriff Court. Funding for all projects taking part in the Board’s first programme of grant funding ended on 30 September.

“Hamilton CAB has made an application for funding through the new grant funding programme. We are currently in discussions about what we will fund and how our funding will be managed to deliver appropriate services at Hamilton Sheriff Court. The Board recognises the need for an advice service at Hamilton Sheriff Court and is committed to ensuring suitable provision is in place.”

“The Board monitors the performance of every project taking part in the grant funding programme, including checks that the project work follows established procedures and focuses on the remit agreed as part of the project agreement. Any failure to properly manage a project could be a breach of the Board’s funding.”

Letterhead of dodgy law firm revealed Gilbert Anderson’s name as an associate yet Hamilton CAB claimed otherwise. Mrs Campbell wrote in her complaint how Anderson hoped John O’Donnell (posing as Colin Davidson) would be able to lift a large fee from the vulnerable widow : “On the Client Record Sheet produced by Mr Anderson (which I found in Davidson Fraser’s file) it clearly states on two separate occasions that he would endeavour to recommend a Legal Aid Solicitor to me. Also, on the back of this Client Record Sheet is a handwritten note “possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000”. I have enclosed a copy of this Record – the original is with Elaine Motion who is acting the the Law Society.” The continuing saga of how Hamilton Citizens Advice tried to cover up serious failings in its In-Court advice service can be read here : HERE

Diary of Injustice pressed the Scottish Legal Aid Board for further information, given the seriousness of the allegations made against the In Court advisers at Hamilton, only to be told : “As we are still in discussions regarding what we will fund and how our funding will be managed to deliver appropriate services at Hamilton Sheriff Court it is not possible to comment on an undefined project. No public funds are released to projects before they agree to the terms and conditions set by the Board.”

Hamilton Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland were both contacted over the matter, however neither chose to respond to queries as to why the In Court advice service had been shutdown or whether the present In-Court advisers would continue in their roles.

However, a legal insider told Diary of Injustice the matter had been handled “stupidly” by Citizens Advice officials who he claimed “are not keen to talk about the Anderson-O’Donnell connection”.

The insider also criticised the lack of vetting undertaken by the Scottish Legal Aid Board of persons who are acting as In-Court advisers, a service which has been branded by some as “a publicly funded rehab for crooked lawyers”

The latest annual report of the Scottish Legal Aid Board reveals the Scottish Government handed over some THREE MILLION POUNDS of taxpayers money to fund the In-Court advice service across Scotland,

SLAB’s 2011 annual report states : In 2009, the Scottish Government made an additional £3 million available  to the Board, up to the end of 2010-2011, to help people  who need advice as a result of the economic downturn. Since then, the  Board has used this funding to :

-  provide grant funding of 16 projects to provide advice and representation services across Scotland
-  employ solicitors in Highland and Islands, Argyll and Bute, Edinburgh and Aberdeen to provide legal services
to people in need, particularly those facing repossession and other problems such as debt; and provide second tier advice to In-Court Advice projects and others
-  fund the 8 In-Court Advice projects across Scotland.
The success of these initiatives enabled us to  develop proposals  that generated support from the  Scottish Government for the continued funding of activities in 2011-2012.

However there is little by way of independent surveys of the service, or any believable reports of substantive successes of the publicly funded In-Court advisory scheme, leading to questions of whether the money is being wisely spent, or has become as some now see it, just another publicly funded subsidy for Scotland’s profit hungry legal profession and their colleagues.

Questions therefore remain as to why a publicly funded project involving millions of pounds of taxpayers money which is regularly referred to by the Scottish Government as a tool to provide ‘access to justice’,  is allowing its staff to recommend dodgy lawyers posing as dead lawyers to members of the public who are often desperately in need of legal advice & assistance.

If you have experiences of dealings with In-Court advisers at Hamilton Sheriff Court, or any other Sheriff Court across Scotland, Diary of Injustice would like to hear from you. Email us more details via scottishlawreporters@gmail.com

78 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crooks all of them. I expect it, they are driven to coverup's.

Anonymous said...

It is well known in the profession this 'in court advisory service' is little more than a political stunt however this Anderson affair may well blow the lid on what has become a very sordid use of public funds.

I also liked the comment about a rehab for crooked lawyers!

Anonymous said...

“possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000” and this guy is getting paid by taxpayers??

what a bloody scandal no wonder Hamilton Citizens Advice have shut up about it probably trying to cover the whole thing up how many more victims at the hands of Anderson and chums???

Anonymous said...

"Hamilton Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland were both contacted over the matter, however neither chose to respond to queries as to why the In Court advice service had been shutdown or whether the present In-Court advisers would continue in their roles."

This kind of cover up from a Citizens Advice Bureau is an absolute disgrace how do they expect anyone to have confidence in them if they are not willing to explain this scandal?

Anonymous said...

Sounds like £3million up in smoke to me so maybe you should also be asking how many votes did this by for MacAskill and why are in court advisers also appearing on lawyers letter heads..

Anonymous said...

Independent this word does not apply to the lawyer faction.

They have a tight grip on everything.

Anonymous said...

hehe Peter you dont half get to the bottom of stuff how do you find out what all these crooks are getting up to?must be like the cia in your office!

keep them on their toes!

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Anonymous said...

“possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000” and this guy is getting paid by taxpayers??

what a bloody scandal no wonder Hamilton Citizens Advice have shut up about it probably trying to cover the whole thing up how many more victims at the hands of Anderson and chums???

16 October 2012 21:33

SO where are the Crown Office and Police in all of this?

It all sounds criminal so why no charges?

Has everyone been bought off again?

Anonymous said...

Thing is,if one is at it there will be others among these in court advisers so Anderson and O'Donnell have blighted the whole thing not just the wee office at Hamilton Sheriff Court..

Anonymous said...

Seems like the Law Society of Scotland together with the crooks at SLAB have conspired with their MSP pals to invent a scheme called 'in-Court Advisor', whereby Public Funds are used to pay the salaries of CROOKED SCOTTISH LAWYERS, who the Law Society of Scotland have been forced to sanction and suspend/strike-off, so that these dodgy Scottish lawyers can continue to :

a) give bad advice to unsuspecting client's who are unaware of these dodgy Scottish lawyers crooked past (all to the clients detriment)

b) get paid out of Public Funds for the only reason that they are a crooked Scottish Solicitor

Anonymous said...

So, this seems to confirm what many people have thought for decades......?

That the SLAB and now the CAB in-court advisor scheme is designed solely for the purpose of 'BUMPING-UP THE SALARY' of crooked Scottish lawyers and has absolutely NOTHING to do with ACCESS TO JUSTICE for the client victim?

Quite simply, the Law Society of Scotland is a CRIMINAL GANG funding it's members through CRIMINAL extortion of Public Money?

Although, when the Police EVENTUALLY move in to make their arrests as a result of this MASSIVE FRAUD against SCOTLAND'S PEOPLE, I am sure the Law Society of Scotland will glibly respond that, 'WE HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. WE ARE INNOCENT OF ANY CHARGE AS WE WERE SIMPLY BORROWING WITHOUT CONSENT?

Anonymous said...

Why have the Police not made any arrests yet at the Hamilton CAB, the SLAB & the Law Society of Scotland over these parties collusion in fraud?

Anonymous said...

Peter was ruined by lawyers and fought their corrupt bureaucracy. From my own experience l promise you all no group in an office will ever expose dishonest lawyers.

They have the country and politicians by the balls. Only clients and the Diary of Injustice team will expose them. This is the conclusion you will form once you have exhausted all complaints channels.

Anonymous said...

Clearly this is a big scandal in the making for the whole court adviser set up so where are the msps who should now be getting involved in this?

At the very lest we now need an independent investigation to establish whether these court advisers have any credibility left?

Anonymous said...

By the sounds of it SLAB are failing to check up on these people before handing over the money yet someone making a legal aid application gets spied on sixty five different ways.

Very unfair and shows there is criminality at the heart of these public funding awards!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

“possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000” and this guy is getting paid by taxpayers??

what a bloody scandal no wonder Hamilton Citizens Advice have shut up about it probably trying to cover the whole thing up how many more victims at the hands of Anderson and chums???

16 October 2012 21:33

SO where are the Crown Office and Police in all of this?

It all sounds criminal so why no charges?

Has everyone been bought off again?

17 October 2012 01:09

PROBABLY BECAUSE TOO MANY LAWYERS GET AWAY WITH IT SO CANT BE COINCIDENCE NO ONE IS EVER CHARGED CAN IT

Anonymous said...

Have no faith in lawyers wherever they show up including these dummy consumer groups who are only out to make a name for themselves on the hacks of victims sufferings

Anonymous said...

Very disappointed with Hamilton CAB because I go in there for help and now dont know if I should trust them now after reading this especially about them trying to cover it up really horrible to know people supposed to be here to help are actually making it worse for us

Anonymous said...

Once again, Fantastic Investigative Journalism by the DOI team exposing Scottish lawyer corruption?

Given that these 'In-Court Advisors' are funded by the SLAB, it should be easy to get a list of all of these individuals names under FOI and then to check off their status as a crooked Scottish Lawyer....?

Bingo, a prime facie case of fraud to keep crooked Scottish lawyers in a position where they can damage the Public and be FUNDED BY the Public at the same time?

What a horrible sadistic crime?

Only the client hating, vindictive Law Society of Scotland could come up with such a dastardly plan?

Anonymous said...

The CAB as an organisation died when they trusted the Law Society of Scotland and agreed to go over to the dark side and to get involved in this cover-up?

Now they are as tainted as the Law Society of Scotland?

Anonymous said...

Have the Police been told to 'STAND DOWN' by the Law Society of Scotland?

Have the Law Society of Scotland sent in their clean-up-creep to try to contain the secrecy of this criminal behaviour?

Anonymous said...

I think the bigger part of the story here may well be who exactly are in these In-Court advice positions and what if any vetting the Scottish Legal Aid Board are conducting of candidates.

This is a question of public funds and it is simply not good enough for SLAB to hand the money over to CAB and let them get on with it because look where this has ended up.

It should also not be lost on everyone this information would not be in the public domain had it not been for Peter and the Sunday Mail journalists.

Good work all concerned.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

I think the bigger part of the story here may well be who exactly are in these In-Court advice positions and what if any vetting the Scottish Legal Aid Board are conducting of candidates.

17 October 2012 21:57

I think what you are trying to say is whether there are any relatives of lawyers,lawyers or anyone connected to the legal profession in these jobs,right?

Well the answer to this is obviously YES, and what has been uncovered here is another taxpayer funded racket for the legal profession.

Snouts in the troff and all that..

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Anonymous said...

Very disappointed with Hamilton CAB because I go in there for help and now dont know if I should trust them now after reading this especially about them trying to cover it up really horrible to know people supposed to be here to help are actually making it worse for us.
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I am from Hamilton and don't trust them either. To be honest where lawyers are concerned the only people l trust are the journalists writing this blog.

Anonymous said...

The most pernicious criminals are the least accountable. They have a system to exploit the public and get paid for it. And when you accuse them of corruption they look at you in disbelief. They have been getting away with this for so long they think they are honest.

A PPI law firm contacted me today. My response no thanks l do not trust lawyers". Only the uninitiated or madmen trust these crooks today. I have every sympathy for clients having to trust these mendacious thugs. Beware.

Anonymous said...

Law Society of Scotland a private court for the exoneration of lawyers. Keep it all nice and quiet and above the laws the public have to live by.

Anonymous said...

I bet lawyers have been putting in 'good words' for the people in these posts getting paid by us to screw us over what a joke and a scandal!!

Anonymous said...

Who are schooling CAB on the type of persons to put in these jobs I wonder?

Law Society of Scotland by any chance?

Anonymous said...

Some kind of public apology over this is due from CAB.If they dont they can never be trusted again.

Anonymous said...

The consumer has become an 'enemy of the State'?

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU the DOI team for shining the bright light of TRUTH onto the Institutionalised crime being perpetrated against the People of Scotland?

Anonymous said...

Can anyone explain why the Law Society of Scotland's crime cover-up squad are being allowed to conceal this criminal behaviour instead of the police being allowed to do their job?

Is this due to an Instruction by the crown office for the police to back-off or is it an Instruction by the Law Society of Scotland?

Either way, it seems to be defeating the ends of justice?

Anonymous said...

The CAB as an organisation has lost the trust of the Scottish Public due to their capitulation to the Law Society of Scotland, who are people haters and especially because they seem to have sold their soul to the dark side?

Anonymous said...

Given that this crime involves the SLAB, the Law Society of Scotland and the CAB, why hasn't Kenny MacAskill ordered an inquiry into this unlawful practice?

Anonymous said...

Never thought for one minute these CAB types had turned their do gooder status into nice little earners on the side while getting paid by us.

Good scoop keep em coming!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Given that this crime involves the SLAB, the Law Society of Scotland and the CAB, why hasn't Kenny MacAskill ordered an inquiry into this unlawful practice?
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MacAskill is the driving force behind it.

Anonymous said...

And now we have the Citizen's Abusers Bureau. A new band of law society crooks on the periphery. Just the way your MSP wants it.

They will be saying about the D0I team 'that is another fine mess you have gotten us into'.

Good Work D0I team exposing rogues pertaining to help the public.

Anonymous said...

Have to agree with the comments saying CAB has let us down - they have,big time.

How many more Andersons out there doing this to people so desperate they have to enter a CAB office?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I bet lawyers have been putting in 'good words' for the people in these posts getting paid by us to screw us over what a joke and a scandal!!

18 October 2012 00:16
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More like the Law Society of Scotland parachutes these crooked lawyers straight in there?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Never thought for one minute these CAB types had turned their do gooder status into nice little earners on the side while getting paid by us.

Good scoop keep em coming!

18 October 2012 13:56
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The Law Society of Scotland have jumped onto the backs of the CAB in order to suck their blood and to turn them into being like them. Sadistic, greedy crooks?

It's as if the Law Society of Scotland has gone after the only trustworthy body left for the Public to turn them against us so that they too will be like the Law Society of Scotland. People haters?

In nature, the closest thing to the Law Society of Scotland may be the parasitic wasp, which attacks it's victim and lays an egg inside it so that its young eats the host from the inside out to turn them into a new parasitic wasp?

Anonymous said...

DOI are lifting the facade of respectability lawyers want the public to believe, and exposing the rotten corrupt multi million pound scam called of a profession behind it.

Liars, thieves, life destroyers operate with impunity and this is why an unelected chamber called the Law Society of Scotland are Scotland's hidden Government, as Salmond knows.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
DOI are lifting the facade of respectability lawyers want the public to believe, and exposing the rotten corrupt multi million pound scam called of a profession behind it.

Liars, thieves, life destroyers operate with impunity and this is why an unelected chamber called the Law Society of Scotland are Scotland's hidden Government, as Salmond knows.

18 October 2012 22:00
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Is this the same veneer of respectability where the SLAB pervert Douglas Haggarty was caught in public toilets with a teenager rent boy but was let off SCOT-FREE by his mates at the Crown Office?

With perverts like this in positions of power and influence, are we really surprised that the SLAB's moral decision making is also corrupt where they have no problem in being part of a cover-up to let other lawyers off-the-hook?

After all, if Haggarty can be let off SCOT-FREE but kept in power, does the Crown Office then later call-in this favour every time a crooked Scottish lawyer is caught out stealing from SLAB funds?

Remember, there have been countless numbers of crooked Scottish Lawyers who have been caught stealing (Fraud) from Public Funds and then let off without being reprimanded or reported to the SLCC or SSDT, even though these crooked lawyers have been caught RED HANDED and there is PRIME VACIE evidence against them with which to prosecute?

If this is not perverting the course of Justice then what is?

The Law Society of Scotland stand charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice by ignoring their own Solicitor (Scotland) Accounts Rules and Solicitor (Scotland) Accounts Certificate Rules which their members routinely break with gay abandon as if they did not even exist?

Anonymous said...

Citizens Advice - another of our public institution now crumbling over cover ups of corrupt practices and links to crooks and abusers of vulnerable people

Anonymous said...

This is what you get when you vote SNP - hats off to Salmond and McAskill.

Anonymous said...

Has this rotten arrangement been concocted by the Law Society of Scotland so that crooked Scottish lawyers are 'placed' into a role where their conduct can be checked by allowing them to continue to 'advise' & work for the public?

If so, the Law Society of Scotland's doors should be boarded up?

Anonymous said...

Just how widespread is this fraud?

Anonymous said...

Why no statement on this by MacAskill?

Have the Law Society of Scotland muzzled him until they can try to cover this whole scandal up?

Anonymous said...

This is an atrocious abuse of power by people who are taking advantage of a system that is supposed to be to safeguard the rights of the needy to one that greedily grabs all of the money for the rich and corrupt?

Anonymous said...

If Scotland fails to get Independence, will the UK Parliament save the Scottish Public from repression and harm by abolishing the Law Society of Scotland and replacing the medieval Scottish Judicial System with the fairer English System?

Anonymous said...

Since it is generally accepted that Scotland has a medieval Judicial System and considering that the Law Society of Scotland, SLAB and CAB have colluded in this fraud, will the Office Bearers of these crooked organisations be found guilty of treason against the Scottish People?

Anonymous said...

People haters?
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Yes they are, if you are questioning a lawyers conduct all offices hate us. Only one office will listen to you. The freethinker's office at the Diary of Injustice. The Law Society could but would not help the Cherbi family.

It is so bloody ironic, they are not freethinkers, that is why they could never recognize the Cherbi families rights, took their master policy protection away. They didn't it care about rights other than Penman's.

It is a fair assessment, The Law Society are trash. So are all offices in Scotland. MacAskill's bureaucracies. People haters.


Anonymous said...

Have to agree I am not surprised to learn Citizens Advice is a load of rubbish when it comes to legal stuff.These people have got by for years by pushing members of the public onto lawyers and when it all turns sour no one gets to hear about it so no headlines involving the CABs and the obvious fact money or favours must be changing hands.Bit different now you've caught this one at it hope people are taking notice instead of the usual head in the sand mentality.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
People haters?
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Yes they are, if you are questioning a lawyers conduct all offices hate us. Only one office will listen to you. The freethinker's office at the Diary of Injustice. The Law Society could but would not help the Cherbi family.

It is so bloody ironic, they are not freethinkers, that is why they could never recognize the Cherbi families rights, took their master policy protection away. They didn't it care about rights other than Penman's.

It is a fair assessment, The Law Society are trash. So are all offices in Scotland. MacAskill's bureaucracies. People haters.

22 October 2012 00:41
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The Law Society used to have a name for me, 'The B@$###D', all because my lawyer was a crook?

When I called the Law Society's Office to speak to my CRO Case Manager, the member of staff (I have her name) thought that her phone was muted and I heard her announce to the room that it was Mr B+++ard on the phone and asking others what she should tell me....to fob me off......

When I informed her that I had heard the insulting name that the Law Society was calling me, at least she was embarrassed enough to apologise........

However, their immature and insulting ways were to continue again at the Law Society's SSDT, where I was referred to by them as Mr B, when there had not been a Mr A referred to in their published record......(which may have explained their use of the Mr B)

How can these people be allowed to do this?

They are the Public haters because they are abusing their position of power to cause harm and distress to the victims of their member lawyers?

Anonymous said...

Will the Law Society of Scotland's CAB's funding be cancelled as they have been outed failing to protect the Public to be replaced by a citizen body who stand up for members of the public preyed upon by these crooked organisations?

Anonymous said...

First the Law Society of England and Wales shuts down the Solicitors from Hell website. They claim that exposing lawyers crooked ways are a form of harassment and the judges (no juries) agreed. No coincidence the judges happen to be members of the Law Society of England and Wales with a major conflict of interest.

Another site opened up Solicitors from Hell 2 hoping to continue the job the Solicitors from Hell website was doing but this time located in America and outside the Law Societies jurisdiction. However it also has been closed down with no reason why the information it published can no longer be accessed.

A third site opened up Cowboy solicitors and it has also closed down without any reason given.
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Now the CAB are the latest branch of Law Society domination.
Their fanatical control of clients access to justice makes them all the same. Trust no lawyer.

Anonymous said...

They do not want public feedback. What more powerful reason do we need to avoid them as much as possible?

They are life destroyers, maggots who could not stand the brutal treatment they dish out.

Anonymous said...

So inappropriate is the relationship between the Law Society of Scotland, the SLAB and the CAB that the in-court service should be renamed the Jimmy Savile service?

Anonymous said...

Given that the SLAB, the CAB & the Law Society of Scotland carry out a Public role in society then why are they not forced to conform to FOI requests instead of being allowed to lie in the knowledge that all of the evidence of their evil can be hidden away behind closed doors?

Anonymous said...

Good to see the SNP start to flounder over legal advice about independence isnt it haha Salmond looked a right bloody liar today in the parliament just as much as his pal at justice and his love of lawyers now finally bringing them all down

Anonymous said...

Hamilton cabs dealing with these staff members is a joke .. what should be a service people can trust and rely on in a moment of need has been transformed into a farce . Slab should not even consider giving money to them as there is obviously no management or quality control in place . I worry for other cab s or organisations who run slab projects that they are tarred with the same brush ...

Anonymous said...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20048431

Lockerbie group accuse Lord Advocate Colin Boyd.

Anonymous said...

ETHICS do these CAB lawyer crooks understand the term?

Anonymous said...

The Law Society are rotten and so is MacAskill.

Anonymous said...

It is clear that all of the legal incorporations in Scotland are morally bankrupt?

Is it not about time that the good Scottish lawyers disband from the crooked Law Society of Scotland and set up an alternative organisations only reserved for good Scottish lawyers?

Those good Scottish lawyers would have a totally clean regulatory history and be able to demonstrate a client focused approach instead of treating their clients as CASH TREES?

Anonymous said...

Given that this Law Society of Scotland's grubby little scheme, to keep a steady supply of client victims for crooked Scottish lawyers has been exposed, the burgeoning question is what was the 'cut' the CAB were getting for passing on those vulnerable clients to a crooked Scottish lawyer, notwithstanding that the CAB were already getting a big fat slurp of gravy from the SLAB through this dodgy in-court scheme?

Anonymous said...

How many lives have been damaged and ruined as a result of this 'job-for-the-boys scheme' to keep feeding the conveyor belt of vulnerable people to these Scottish lawyer sharks?

Anonymous said...

Is the intervention by the Law Society of Scotland's cover-up team in this scandal prime facie evidence of the Law Society of Scotland wilfully, overtly & actively involving themselves in defeating the ends of justice to protect themselves and to act against the victim?

Anonymous said...

All of the CAB's papers should be made available under a Freedom of Information request in the Public Interest to get to the bottom of this case, that is indeed if any of these papers still exist as it is more than likely that the Law Society of Scotland whitewash team will have burnt the criminally incriminating evidence by now?

Anonymous said...

1) Get your paperwork together.
If you are complaining about something you bought or a contract, then you will have far more luck if you have all the relevant documents. It pays to hang onto these things for up to two years after any major purchase.

2) Know your rights. AGAINST LAWYERS YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, EVEN THE CAB ARE THE LAW SOCIETY.

There is a particularly useful bit of legislation here. The Sale of Goods Act 1979 states that what you buy should be of satisfactory quality and fit for purpose. There is a fair chunk of grey area in the legislation about what satisfactory means and what constitutes being fit for purpose, but if you quote the act and how you feel the goods fall short, then you are already on the front foot.

3) Work out what you want.
You need to know the grounds on which you are complaining, and you need to know exactly what you want them to do in order to put it right for you. There's no point charging in with all guns blazing if you don't have an objective.

4) Be prepared to take it further.
You may have to withdraw and take it up in writing with the manager or the customer services department. If it's in a regulated industry you may need to take it to the ombudsman, and if not, you may have to consider the small claims court. Be prepared to stick with it if you want satisfaction.

5) Stay calm.
You are far more likely to get what you want if you ask nicely and stay polite. They'll work harder to help you, rather than getting sick of the sight of you and trying to shoehorn you out of their shop.

Anonymous said...

Was the manager of Hamilton Cab investigated for their role in this whole cover up? After all, someone must been supervising what went on in the In Court Office.

Anonymous said...

It is somewhat ironic that after crowing all the while that the Law Society of Scotland & their Law Officers have 'got his back' it now is humorously apparent that Salmonds buddies have told him to 'Go Fish'?

Hopefully this is the wake-up call that Salmond needs to realise that the crooks he has so far put all of his faith in have only being appearing to do so to inveigle themselves into a position power?

Now, they have manoeuvred Salmond into a compromised position, which was surely brokered by the 'other side' of the Independence Decision to erode his credibility?

Now is the time for Salmond to strip out the Scottish legal crooks who have enjoyed an unnatural position of power and influence for too long, notwithstanding the recent Justice For Megrahi group putting MacAskill and Salmond on Notice that individuals within the Scottish legal apparatus have acted to defeat the ends of justice?

Funny how the Scottish Press are not being allowed to report on this scandal?

Anonymous said...

Why is there not a Public Enquiry into this subject as it is obvious that individuals conduct has clearly been contrary to the Best interests of the public?

Anonymous said...

Who is responsible for allowing this corruption and double dealing to go on unabated (as if they are above the law)?

Have the police investigated and who and how many have been arrested and charged?

Anonymous said...

CASH TREES?

Clients seen as a Tree loaded with cash on its branches for the express 'cash fund' for these crooked Scottish lawyers, who have no intention of properly representing their client and are more interested in how to extract the maximum amount of cash from their CASH TREE?

Anonymous said...

The silence from The Law Society of Scotland's apologist Kenny MacAskill is defeaning?

Although, by staying shtum, at least he is saving himself from lying?

Anonymous said...

Once again, a brilliant piece of investigative journalism by the DOI Team?

Bravo.

Thank goodness you are all looking after the Public Interest of Scotland's People because our Government, the lawyers, courts and police don't seem to be doing their job?

Anonymous said...

http://www.intmensorg.info/judgerisk.htm

Anonymous said...

Is there any update on how many people have been arrested from the Law Society of Scotland, the SLAB and CAB?