Monday, February 25, 2013

CREDIBILITY KNOCKS : New £313-a-day Chair of Scottish Legal Complaints Commission claims 'anti-client' regulator will be ‘more effective’ in dealing with crooked lawyers

New £313-a-day Chair for Scottish Legal Complaints Commission. THE widely disrespected Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the ‘single gateway’ for all complaints made by clients against Scottish solicitors, has a new Chair with the announcement of the appointment of Bill Brackenridge, who takes over the £313 a day position of what many observers now accept is little more than a “front company” for the Law Society of Scotland.

Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership. Mr Brackenridge replaces Jane Irvine, the SLCC’s first Chair,and former Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman, who retired from her position on 31 December 2012.

The SLCC announced the appointment of Mr Brackenridge last week in a low key Press Release. The SLCC said Mr Brackenridge will bring “considerable Corporate Governance experience to the SLCC”, on the basis that as a management consultant for 25 years he has extensively advised public and private sector clients.  Among his former appointments, Bill Brackenridge has served as a non-Executive Director on Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and on NHS Highland, chairing the Argyll & Bute CHP for five years.  For six years he chaired the Board of the Scottish Ambulance Service.  He comes to the SLCC aiming to build on its formative years and intent upon developing positive relationships with its stakeholders.

Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services. I'm looking forward to working with the team to make us even more effective and influential in dealing with complaints and in encouraging improved standards through our powers of guidance and oversight. The legal market is changing. Our hard-won experience will contribute to maintaining and strengthening public trust and confidence in buying and using legal services."

Omitted from the SLCC’s Press Statement, it is also known Mr Brackenridge was appointed by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group which was set up to advise NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde on the future of the Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire and modernisation of health services at the hospital.

However, during Mr Brackenridge’s tenure at the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group, it is worth noting and perhaps of considerable concern, that eleven lay members from the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group resigned their positions in a mass resignation, claiming their views were being ignored by the health board after a number of decisions were apparently taken by the Health Board contrary to input from the group’s lay members.

At the time of the mass resignation by the lay members, Mr Brackenridge in his capacity as Chair, told a meeting of the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group he was "disappointed" by the resignation of 11 lay members. However, the incident was widely reported in the media, with opposition politicians calling for Mr Brackenridge’s group’s disbandment, on the basis it had “no credibility”.

It may well be worth noting that Mr Brackenridge now finds himself heading a legal complaints regulator also well known for its lack of credibility.

The Scottish Government’s similarly low key announcement of Mr Brackenridge’s appointment, made by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, without a personal comment, claimed “The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.”

However, some cases brought to the attention of Diary of Injustice appear to show the SLCC has told some clients it may be up to EIGHT MONTHS before their complaint is assigned to an investigator, while other cases have shown the SLCC is refusing to consider any evidence submitted by clients to challenge spurious claims made by solicitors who have the backing of organisations such as the Legal Defence Union to ‘persuade’ the SLCC to drop cases “on demand” as one insider put it.

64 comments:

Anonymous said...

TOP judges have blown nearly £18,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a series of countryside getaways.

They regularly flee London for a luxury hotel to chat about the justice system.

The retreats take place at the posh Old Swan and Minster Mill — a restored 600-year-old coaching inn in PM David Cameron’s constituency at Witney, Oxfordshire.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4809715/Top-judges-blow-18000-of-taxpayers-cash-on-countryside-getaways-to-chat-about-law.html#ixzz2Lx1TsC6J

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services. [BRAVE WORDS] I'm looking forward to working with the team to make us even more effective and influential in dealing with complaints and in encouraging improved standards through our powers of guidance and oversight. The legal market is changing. Our hard-won experience will contribute to maintaining and strengthening public trust [YOU WILL NEED A MIRACLE MR BRACKENRIDGE] and confidence in buying and using legal services."
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NO OFFENCE BUT WHY WERE YOU APPOINTED? ALL OF YOUR PREDECESSORS HAVE BEEN USELESS TO CLIENTS. REMEMBER MR GORDON OF PERTH STARVED AND THE SLCC THOUGHT THAT WAS FINE. IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT CLIENTS [WHICH I DOUBT] YOU WILL NOT BE THERE LONG.

Anonymous said...

I dont like the sound of this!

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge's NHS tenure does not recommend him to any impartial or rational thinking person. He can of course proves us all wrong by demanding from the Law Society a copy of its Master Policy agreement with the notorious insurance provider Marsh - so he knows exactly what his terms of refernce are.

But perhaps he already has some inkling, no doubt Marsh has its grubby fingers in health service insurance as well, courtesy of the SNP.

Alice Moore said...

My mother was put in a care home against her will and this was done with a document called a `power of attorney`. This document claimed my mother said she could not write, and yet she had done so two weeks before in front of her bank manager.

When I asked the Public Guardian to investigate, they strung me along until my mother was dead, when they then informed me that it was too late, and I should have put my case in front of the sheriff.

When I asked the Public Guardian if they had ever put a case in front of the sheriffe they told me no, because it was a private matter. Yet I discovered that there had been a case in which the Public Guardiand had been involved. In other words, the Public Guardian could choose whether or not it had the obvious powers that it had, and whether or not they would choose to use them.

I am exhausted and probably not making much sense at the moment. But I would plead that these issues concerning powers over elderly and vulnerable people are matters seriously to be investigated.

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership.

Didnt Jane Irvine and MacBuckfast claim the same?

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the Scottish Legal Coverup Commission Mr Brackenridge. If is it going to be more effective in dealing with crooked lawyers you won't be there long. There is no complaints system to protect clients in Scotland, they tried to seduce the public into believing so but we can separate the facts from the SLCC Law Society, MSP propaganda.

Anonymous said...

So,no change then!
Rogue lawyers will party at this news and by the sounds of the Vale of Leven stuff there's yet more to come out about that little lot!

Anonymous said...

Kenny MacAskill, without a personal comment, claimed “The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.
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There is no complaints system to protect clients from your legal profession Mr MacAskill and you know that to be true even though you will never admit it. The SLCC and you consider clients to be thorns in your flesh.

Anonymous said...

Credibility comes expensive at £313 a day - that works out at £1,565 a week assuming a Mon-Fri stint.

So,does anyone think someone should be paid £1,565 a week to run a front company for the Law Society and bear in mind this is coming from clients pockets probably many times over given we know lawyers tend to err on the safe side and rip off more than they need..

Anonymous said...

Dont expect the same situation to arise with the SLCC lay members who have already been selected for their compliance & silence

Anonymous said...

Lawyers looking after lawyers again?What a surprise!

Anonymous said...

At the time of the mass resignation by the lay members, Mr Brackenridge in his capacity as Chair, told a meeting of the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group he was "disappointed" by the resignation of 11 lay members.
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This is not an encouraging indicator.

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership.

aye right

if you are still writing in 5 years time about this you will get another chance to report on how big a failure the slcc was from 2013-2018

Anonymous said...

Vale of Leven was a fiasco from the start - just another political led project to hide the fact the NHS in Scotland is an utter disaster

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services.
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Official channels destroy complaints and clear the lawyer. Nothing will change.

Anonymous said...

Yes,curious Kenny made no direct comment in the Press Release.Something to hide as in SNP Ministerial appointments?Surely not..

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2013/02/legalcommchair21022013

Scottish Legal Complaints Commission chair appointed

21/02/2013

Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacAskill today announced the appointment of Bill Brackenridge to the Chair of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.

The appointment will be for five years. He replaces Jane Irvine, the first Chair of the Commission, who served from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2012.

The introduction of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 created the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) which opened for business on 1 October 2008. Providing a single gateway for complaints against legal practitioners operating in Scotland, the SLCC investigates and resolves complaints about inadequate professional service; refers conduct complaints to the relevant professional body and provides oversight of complaint handling across the profession. The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.

Bill Brackenridge brings considerable corporate governance experience to the commission. As a management consultant for 25 years he advised public and private sector clients as the governance agenda developed. He has served as a non-Executive Director on Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and on NHS Highland, chairing the Argyll & Bute CHP for five years. For six years he chaired the Board of the Scottish Ambulance Service. He comes to the Commission aiming to build on its formative years and intent upon developing positive relationships with its stakeholders.

The appointment will be for five years and will run from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017.

This appointment is part-time and attracts a remuneration of £313 as a daily rate. This extension is regulated by the Public Appointments Commissioner for Scotland.

All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity within the last five years (if there is any to be declared) to be made public. Mr Brackenridge has undertaken no political activities over the last five years.

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services."

Come on Bill.The SLCC has been on the go since 2008 and not even lawyers trust it (hence all the appeals in the Court of Session by solicitors) so your trust building exercise is dead before it happens.

Anyway,the Law Society trots out this "We will build trust" line every year and we are still neck deep in crooked lawyers who get a gold star in the margin when they end up at the SSDT.

Anonymous said...

Like Irvine did at the opening of the SLCC he will simply dismiss any criticism and say the page has to be turned.The only problem is the next page reads the same as the last and the one before it so don't expect any improvements or solicitors raising their standards of service just because a political appointee comes along and says so.

Anonymous said...

8 months to look at a complaint about a lawyer and they are getting all this money from clients to pay for this merry-go-round???
What a disgrace!

Anonymous said...

However, some cases brought to the attention of Diary of Injustice appear to show the SLCC has told some clients it may be up to EIGHT MONTHS.
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No they mean eighty years.

Diary of Injustice said...

# Alice Moore @ 25 February 2013 22:52

Sounds like an interesting case ... if you want the matter publicised, email us at scottishlawreporters@gmail.com as it is likely there are other similar cases with the Office of the Public Guardian that need aired in public.

Anonymous said...

“The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.”

NOT A CHANCE IN HELL OF THIS EVER HAPPENING

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Credibility comes expensive at £313 a day - that works out at £1,565 a week assuming a Mon-Fri stint.

So,does anyone think someone should be paid £1,565 a week to run a front company for the Law Society and bear in mind this is coming from clients pockets probably many times over given we know lawyers tend to err on the safe side and rip off more than they need..

26 February 2013 00:40

No one is worth £313 a day especially when it comes to handling complaints about lawyers BUT dont just take my word for it .. look around and see how many people you can find who are satisfied with the handling of their complaint against some miserable scumbag in the legal profession who gets away with stealing because his buddies handle all the regulation and see to it no criminal case to answer

Anonymous said...

Surely with 25 years of Management Consultancy experience (yawn,just look how most of these public sector organisations are run) the wise thing to do would be to admit the slcc is in a bit of a mess and needs a complete revamp instead of the rather tame comments attributed to him in the SLCC's media comment.

Anonymous said...

The phrases "credibility" and "regulation" do not go together.Just read up about what the Financial Services Authority was doing when the bankers were eating each other with our money!

Anonymous said...

Hilarious actually someone thinks the way lawyers look after their own complaints has any credibility left!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge was "disappointed" by the resignation of 11 lay members. Why because he could not get them to sing his song?

Anonymous said...

Watching the news tonight there is a story about the Police trying to persuade rape victims to withdraw their complaints well a similar situation is going on between the SLCC and myself over a complaint I made about my solicitor and they are trying their best to get me to drop it and no one will talk to me on the telephone about it.

Anonymous said...

I don't trust anyone in a position of power. They are there to look after whatever faction they have been appointed to and no matter what they say they will never keep their job should they work against those who appointed them.

Lawyers, doctors, bankers, accountants, and the rest, the profession always comes first. That is how they are trained and adhere to this fanatically.

Anonymous said...

Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership.

I don't believe you Mr Brackenridge, we have been here before and nothing changed but DOI, I trust them 100%.

Anonymous said...

Oh dear!

The SLCC sinking ship has gone and got itself ANOTHER broken rudder?

Do we really have to endure more and more pointless circling around, pretending that the hull has not been holed, waiting for this design fault vessel to finally sink?

Anonymous said...

'He comes to the SLCC aiming to build on its formative years and intent upon developing positive relationships with its stakeholders.'

Nice one.....

But the victims of Scottish lawyers are NOT one of the Stakeholders?

Anonymous said...

Is it true that the SLCC Office has had all of the tables & chairs pushed to the sides of the room?

I wonder if they have got proper goals installed or if it is just jumpers for goalposts?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
TOP judges have blown nearly £18,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a series of countryside getaways.

They regularly flee London for a luxury hotel to chat about the justice system.

The retreats take place at the posh Old Swan and Minster Mill — a restored 600-year-old coaching inn in PM David Cameron’s constituency at Witney, Oxfordshire.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4809715/Top-judges-blow-18000-of-taxpayers-cash-on-countryside-getaways-to-chat-about-law.html#ixzz2Lx1TsC6J

25 February 2013 22:04

fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuucccccccooooo

Mere chicken feed...

The former head of Scotland's Accountant In Bankruptcy, shut her building DOWN and took the whole lot of them lock, stock and smoking barrel off for a day of rhythmic drumming at a vast cost to the tax-payer?

All to improve their morale you know?

Not morals?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services. [BRAVE WORDS] I'm looking forward to working with the team to make us even more effective and influential in dealing with complaints and in encouraging improved standards through our powers of guidance and oversight. The legal market is changing. Our hard-won experience will contribute to maintaining and strengthening public trust [YOU WILL NEED A MIRACLE MR BRACKENRIDGE] and confidence in buying and using legal services."
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NO OFFENCE BUT WHY WERE YOU APPOINTED? ALL OF YOUR PREDECESSORS HAVE BEEN USELESS TO CLIENTS. REMEMBER MR GORDON OF PERTH STARVED AND THE SLCC THOUGHT THAT WAS FINE. IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT CLIENTS [WHICH I DOUBT] YOU WILL NOT BE THERE LONG.

25 February 2013 22:10
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Did you notice the best quote?

'Our hard-won experience will contribute to maintaining and strengthening public trust and confidence in buying and using legal services'

INCREDIBLE ARROGANCE?

The victims of Scottish crooked lawyers have NOT bought legal services they have been sold into slavery by the evil Apartheid system?


Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mr Brackenridge's NHS tenure does not recommend him to any impartial or rational thinking person.

25 February 2013 22:35
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Bingo!

Why do you think the Law Society of Scotland cherry-picked him for the job?

Anonymous said...

Alice Moore said...
My mother was put in a care home against her will and this was done with a document called a `power of attorney`. This document claimed my mother said she could not write, and yet she had done so two weeks before in front of her bank manager.

When I asked the Public Guardian to investigate, they strung me along until my mother was dead, when they then informed me that it was too late, and I should have put my case in front of the sheriff.

When I asked the Public Guardian if they had ever put a case in front of the sheriffe they told me no, because it was a private matter. Yet I discovered that there had been a case in which the Public Guardiand had been involved. In other words, the Public Guardian could choose whether or not it had the obvious powers that it had, and whether or not they would choose to use them.

I am exhausted and probably not making much sense at the moment. But I would plead that these issues concerning powers over elderly and vulnerable people are matters seriously to be investigated.

25 February 2013 22:52
Totototototototototototototot

Dear Alice,

I am so sorry for your loss but you seem to have fallen victim to the Law Society of Scotland and their legal monopoly?

The Office of The Public Guardian was set up (and it is structured to be run by an unelected and unaccountable single person who makes decisions for your loved ones) precisely to ensure that where an elderly person or incapacitated person is vulnerable and in need of support that the Scottish lawyers have easy access to their money/estate?

This was set up simply as another cash enrichment stream for crooked Scottish lawyers to take advantage of the vulnerable in Society?

Why?

Because they can?

They see us all as £ signs and are devoid of any emotion when they BORROW OUR MONEY WITHOUT CONSENT? (AKA Steal)?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership.

Didnt Jane Irvine and MacBuckfast claim the same?

25 February 2013 22:55
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiickmabosiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I swear their lips were moving but there was no sound....

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mr Brackenridge claims the SLCC, with its annual budget of nearly £3 million pounds, paid for by client fees to solicitors, will be made more effective in dealing with complaints and will encourage improved standards in the legal profession under his leadership.

Didnt Jane Irvine and MacBuckfast claim the same?

25 February 2013 22:55
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiickmabosiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I swear their lips were moving but there was no sound....

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Credibility comes expensive at £313 a day - that works out at £1,565 a week assuming a Mon-Fri stint.

So,does anyone think someone should be paid £1,565 a week to run a front company for the Law Society and bear in mind this is coming from clients pockets probably many times over given we know lawyers tend to err on the safe side and rip off more than they need..

26 February 2013 00:40
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Word has it that all of the furniture, computers, coffee machines etc have gone the same way as the SLCC staff and a puggy has been installed in their place?

So, now do you see?

Anonymous said...

I dooooon't believe it?

Not another chin-dribbler?

When is this bad joke going to end?

Err, it's not even funny anymore?



V. Meldrew

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
At the time of the mass resignation by the lay members, Mr Brackenridge in his capacity as Chair, told a meeting of the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group he was "disappointed" by the resignation of 11 lay members.
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This is not an encouraging indicator.

26 February 2013 11:41
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You could not even make this stuff up......?

Now, he is captain of his own Pirate Ship?

Oh Lord, give me strength...?

They are all aboard the bad ship SLCC guarding the booty for all of the mutineers, skuldugs and dirty sea dogs?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Kenny MacAskill, without a personal comment, claimed “The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.
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There is no complaints system to protect clients from your legal profession Mr MacAskill and you know that to be true even though you will never admit it. The SLCC and you consider clients to be thorns in your flesh.

25 February 2013 23:58
beeeeeeeeeegeeeeeeeeees

Do you think these loons actually believe what they are saying or are they so used to lying they have long since forgotten what the truth is?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Yes,curious Kenny made no direct comment in the Press Release.Something to hide as in SNP Ministerial appointments?Surely not..

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2013/02/legalcommchair21022013

Scottish Legal Complaints Commission chair appointed

21/02/2013

Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacAskill today announced the appointment of Bill Brackenridge to the Chair of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.

The appointment will be for five years. He replaces Jane Irvine, the first Chair of the Commission, who served from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2012.

The introduction of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 created the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) which opened for business on 1 October 2008. Providing a single gateway for complaints against legal practitioners operating in Scotland, the SLCC investigates and resolves complaints about inadequate professional service; refers conduct complaints to the relevant professional body and provides oversight of complaint handling across the profession. The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.

Bill Brackenridge brings considerable corporate governance experience to the commission. As a management consultant for 25 years he advised public and private sector clients as the governance agenda developed. He has served as a non-Executive Director on Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and on NHS Highland, chairing the Argyll & Bute CHP for five years. For six years he chaired the Board of the Scottish Ambulance Service. He comes to the Commission aiming to build on its formative years and intent upon developing positive relationships with its stakeholders.

The appointment will be for five years and will run from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017.

This appointment is part-time and attracts a remuneration of £313 as a daily rate. This extension is regulated by the Public Appointments Commissioner for Scotland.

All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity within the last five years (if there is any to be declared) to be made public. Mr Brackenridge has undertaken no political activities over the last five years.

26 February 2013 12:46
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Maybe the interview went like this?........

'So, I hear you are a big Law Society of Scotland man?'

'Yes'

'Well then, you must be wondering when you start?'

'Tell me about the money?'

'Look, as long are you are the Law Society of Scotland's YES man, we will see you alright.....?'

'Cool bananas'

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
8 months to look at a complaint about a lawyer and they are getting all this money from clients to pay for this merry-go-round???
What a disgrace!


26 February 2013 14:35
ppppppoooooolllllliiiiiiiisssssss

Think that is bad?

I know someone who's case has been going on for over 3 years and remains unresolved because the Law Society of Scotland were caught out colluding with the SLCC to NOT interfere and to let their member off Scot-Free?

(wilfully defeating the ends of justice)?

Anonymous said...

I cannot believe that the SLCC (Glasgow supper club) are still going?

That's a lot of money to keep them fed, watered, nodding & grinning and acquiescing to their master's desires?

Anonymous said...

I am exhausted and probably not making much sense at the moment. But I would plead that these issues concerning powers over elderly and vulnerable people are matters seriously to be investigated.
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They are a unit and a bad one indeed. Apart from publicity there is no one to help people, lawyers, doctors, ombudsman, I trust none of them and I sympathize with you.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what's on the SLCC's Agenda?

Err, I mean supper menu?

Anonymous said...

Is it true that the Law Society of Scotland have insisted that the SLCC use their regulation machine?

Apparently, the Law Society have designed a mechanical wrist-slapping machine so that they can process the large number of crooked Scottish lawyers?

Anonymous said...

During a conference organised by the Law Society of Scotland on 'taking care of the Client', there was a break for refreshments...?

A longstanding high-fee paying Client of Scottish lawyer A happened to be attending the event and approached lawyer A for a chat during the break...?

Client : Hello lawyer A, imagine seeing you here? How are you this morning?....

Lawyer A : Hello. Do I know you?

Client : What do you mean? Of course you know me? It's me? You are my lawyer? I have used you and your firm for 10 years and have paid you £Millions of my hard earned money in the process? Why did you say you don't know me? That is very offensive?

Lawyer A : What did you say your name was?

Client : How arrogant, you must know my name is Mr Hargreaves?

Lawyer A : ......Ahh, Mr Hargraves. Of course......how are you sir? Everything swimming I presume?

Client : You confuse me? Why did you not recognise me initially?....

Lawyer A : Well you see Mr Hargreaves, it is really a rather simple explanation and is peculiarly an issue with us Scottish lawyers......We are only ever concerned with our clients name.......otherwise misunderstandings can occur....like today for example?

Client : I am still confused? I am one of your highest billed Clients, you simply must have recognised me?

Lawyer A : Err, No. The reason I didn't recognise you & instead had to rely on your name is simply because when Scottish lawyers look at their client they all look the same to us.........all we see is a body with a £ sign for a head......

Client : For Fuxache!!!!!!!


Client : So, this is what they mean by, 'taking care of the Client'?

Anonymous said...

I could have sworn I saw some pool tables through the window of the SLCC the other day?

And a bar too?


Maybe that is why...

Anonymous said...

I thought the SLCC had been reported to the police already?

What can be going on here in this small country shop of ours?

Anonymous said...

What is the similarity between Mystic Meg (remember her?) and the SLCC?

Well, they both know your impending future.....?

Anonymous said...

Some Crown Prosecution Service corruption - they must be learning from the Crown Office how to commit real fraud!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21611316

CPS West Midlands staff members charged with £1m fraud

Two Crown Prosecution Service staff members face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud over false taxi claims totalling at least £1m, the CPS said.

Lisa Joanne Burrows and the other member of staff, who has not been named, work for CPS West Midlands.

The allegations concern false claims for witness care taxi services when no such services had been supplied, the CPS said in a statement.

A spokesman said Ms Burrows, 41, had been charged by West Midlands Police.

She will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

The other staff member has not yet been charged.
'False claims'

West Midlands CPS covers the counties of Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and the metropolitan area of the West Midlands including the cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry.

Malcolm McHaffie, deputy head of special crime for the CPS, said: "Following a complaint by the Crown Prosecution Service and a subsequent investigation by West Midlands Police into two members of CPS staff, I have carefully considered available evidence in relation to Lisa Joanne Burrows, a finance manager, and another member of staff, an administrative officer.

"I have now concluded that it is appropriate to charge both [Ms] Burrows and the other individual with conspiracy to commit fraud.

"The charges relate to an allegation that [Ms] Burrows and the other member of staff, on or before 27 February, conspired together to commit fraud by false representation by submitting to the Crown Prosecution Service false claims for witness care taxi services to the value of at least £1,000,000 when no such services had been supplied."

Anonymous said...

Lawyers overcharged for legal aid

Three lawyers have been barred from providing criminal legal aid services after being investigated by the Scottish Legal Aid Board over charges.

All three were found to be in breach of the board's code of practice.

Solicitor Iain Robertson of Paisley-based Robertson & Ross and former associate Alistair Gibb were found to have overcharged the board for travel to various prisons.

Mr Robertson's firm has since repaid £221,847 to the Legal Aid Fund.

In a separate case, Glasgow lawyer Steven A Anderson and his firm Andersons Solicitors were found to have held "unnecessary meetings with clients" and made "inappropriate, multiple and repetitive grants of advice and assistance".

The Scottish Legal Aid Board monitors and investigates legal aid expenditure involving both legal aid applicants and the legal profession.

While it can stop solicitors undertaking criminal legal aid work, only the Law Society of Scotland has responsibility for stopping solicitors from providing civil legal aid services.

Last year, the board saved or recovered almost £2m following investigations.
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Prosecutions? They look after their own.

Angry Pensioner said...

Another waste of space at the SLCC. I have found to my cost that this organisation is hopeless.

Anonymous said...

Hmm clearly the slcc has no credibility at all

An issue for the new SNP office plant err sorry I mean Chair to address?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mr Brackenridge said : "I'm pleased to be joining the SLCC at such an important time in its development. We're now established as the gateway for all legal complaints in Scotland but there's much more for us to do to build trust and confidence in legal services."

Come on Bill.The SLCC has been on the go since 2008 and not even lawyers trust it (hence all the appeals in the Court of Session by solicitors) so your trust building exercise is dead before it happens.

Anyway,the Law Society trots out this "We will build trust" line every year and we are still neck deep in crooked lawyers who get a gold star in the margin when they end up at the SSDT.


26 February 2013 12:54
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Law Society of Scotland, with their thinly disguised arms, the SSDT & the SLCC are in the business of keeping crooked Scottish lawyers in a job and thereby advertise to the rest of their membership that it is open season to rape, pillage and steal from their clients with mendacity?

Nothing but a bunch of BORROWING WITHOUT CONSENTERS scumbags?

Truly the stinking anus of Society?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
“The SLCC also promotes and advises on good complaint handling and makes recommendations to promote good legal practice in Scotland. The SLCC aims to resolve complaints quickly and effectively.”

NOT A CHANCE IN HELL OF THIS EVER HAPPENING

26 February 2013 15:54
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

What a lot of BULLSHITE?

I thought there was a law about organisations making deliberately false statements?

Mind you, these creeps do not respect any laws?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Surely with 25 years of Management Consultancy experience (yawn,just look how most of these public sector organisations are run) the wise thing to do would be to admit the slcc is in a bit of a mess and needs a complete revamp instead of the rather tame comments attributed to him in the SLCC's media comment.


26 February 2013 16:34
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The SLCC is a sham organisation which was forced into existence by the Law Society of Scotland so that they could continue to steal and humiliate victims of crooked Scottish lawyers?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Watching the news tonight there is a story about the Police trying to persuade rape victims to withdraw their complaints well a similar situation is going on between the SLCC and myself over a complaint I made about my solicitor and they are trying their best to get me to drop it and no one will talk to me on the telephone about it.

26 February 2013 21:35
ddddddddddddddddddccccc

You will no doubt also notice that they try to do this double dealing on behalf of the Law Society of Scotland over the phone, so that you are denied proof of a written example of their behaviour?

The SLCC's job is to make it look like it is not the Law Society who are doing all of this defeating the ends of justice but you can be CERTAIN that it is the Law Society of Scotland and is down to some particularly evil staff members who take great delight in ruining people's lives and creating human devastation?

We live in a truly SICK Society in Scotland?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I am exhausted and probably not making much sense at the moment. But I would plead that these issues concerning powers over elderly and vulnerable people are matters seriously to be investigated.
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They are a unit and a bad one indeed. Apart from publicity there is no one to help people, lawyers, doctors, ombudsman, I trust none of them and I sympathize with you.

27 February 2013 11:02
Sdsdsdsdsdsddsdsdsdsds

I genuinely feel your pain but.........

Who have we got to complain about this to?

The Crown Office?

The Police?

God Help Us All?

Anonymous said...

Angry Pensioner said...
Another waste of space at the SLCC. I have found to my cost that this organisation is hopeless.

28 February 2013 13:10
Popoppopoopppopoppop

No.

The SLCC are ruthlessly efficient in what they do, which is to lie, cheat and ultimately do the Law Society of Scotland' bidding?

A con of the Scottish People?