Regulators behaving typically – SLCC statement on BBC investigation into dodgy solicitors. AMID widespread criticism from the legal profession over the content of a popular and well researched BBC Scotland investigation Lawyers Behaving Badly, which revealed significant failures in self regulation of the legal profession, the much criticised and often pro-lawyer Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has issued a statement welcoming the BBC programme “for raising some important issues” on how complaints against solicitors are currently dealt with by the ‘independent’ regulator.
The SLCC, itself beset with complaints about how it mistreats clients & complainants and how it appears to operate on an anti-consumer platform, also claimed in a Press Release that it wished to work more closely with the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) and the Law Society of Scotland to ‘share information and intelligence with these organisations to help identify risks to the public’.
Statement from the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission regarding BBC Scotland’s Lawyers Behaving Badly investigation: On Wednesday night, the BBC screened the latest BBC Scotland Investigates: “Lawyers Behaving Badly”. The programme investigated the regulation of the legal profession in Scotland and the role of the different organisations involved. We welcome the programme for raising some important issues.
We know from our trends analysis that problems with solicitors often arise during important life events – buying and selling a house, divorce, wills. The public rightly expects high standards of conduct and service from their solicitors and it is a serious matter when these are not met.
As the single gateway for all complaints against legal practitioners in Scotland, we provide the first point of contact in the legal complaints system. In the four years from 1 July 2009-30 June 2013, we dealt with 4929 complaints.
Under the current system, it is our responsibility to investigate service issues. In the last year alone, we awarded £250,000 in compensation or rebated fees for inadequate service. We are upholding more complaints than ever while also offering complainers alternate means to get a resolution. We also aim to reduce the occurrence of service issues by researching and producing guidance for the profession to help them improve.
Our powers regarding complaints about the conduct of solicitors raised with us are limited. If we decide the complaint has merit, we will pass it over to the Law Society of Scotland to investigate. We can investigate how it handles the complaint, but only if the complainer asks us to and the action we can then take is restricted. We also audit the Law Society’s overall complaints process. We have no oversight over the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT).
It is clear that we, the Law Society of Scotland, the Scottish Legal Aid Board and the SSDT could work together more closely. We are already sharing information and intelligence with these organisations to help identify risks to the public. We are committed to working with them to improve the effectiveness of the system and to continue to build public trust and confidence in Scotland’s legal system.
Commenting on the SLCC’s wish to work more closely with the Law Society & Scottish Legal Aid Board, a legal insider said the idea could only work if each of the three bodies had greater oversight over their operations and were able to gain public trust and confidence in their operation, combined with increased transparency.
He also said that if the three bodies were to work together, the Law Society of Scotland should be subject to the full requirements of Freedom of Information legislation, a proposal once supported by the former Chair of the SLCC, Jane Irvine, reported here: Legal Complaints Chief supports ‘consumer advantages’ of removing Law Society’s Freedom of Info immunity
Earlier this week, it was reported a spokesperson for the Legal Aid Board who gave reaction to the BBC’s investigation of dodgy lawyers also said SLAB supported an idea from the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission that a regulator’s forum should be set up.
However, it was recently revealed the troubled SLCC has its own issues of perceived pro-lawyer bias with a full complement of staff & Law Society insiders revealed in an exclusive Diary of Injustice report here : A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP : Investigation reveals Scotland’s ‘independent’ legal regulator is mired in family, business & personal links to legal profession & Law Society
Speaking to Diary of Injustice this afternoon, a client who encountered significant delays and difficulties with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission said he felt like he “was talking to a bunch of lawyers” throughout the time he dealt with the SLCC. The client branded the SLCC as bad as the Law Society, calling the regulator “a lawyer set up to bury complaints against other lawyers”.
The hapless regulator then took nearly a year to accept the complaint against the solicitor concerned, who went on to time waste, then use mediation as a further time wasting measure, upon the failure of which, the complaint re-entered the investigation stage and ended up with only a partially upheld finding.
Speaking of his experiences with the SLCC, the client commented: “No matter what material is handed over to the SLCC and how often you have to make the points again and again that your solicitor has stolen money and property deeds, this regulator seems to allow crooked lawyers to go on working”.
He continued: “What use is a regulator when the SLCC does nothing even after evidence has been handed to it documenting the most cruel and pernicious offences committed by solicitors against their clients?”
Diary of Injustice has reported on the BBC’s investigation into self regulation of the Scottish legal profession in previous articles here: Lawyers Behaving Badly - a window into the world of lawyers regulating themselves
http://www.lawscot.org.uk/news/press-releases/2014/january/news_statementbbcdoc
ReplyDeleteWhat an astonishingly bogus statement from the Law Society (you will note that this was coordinated with their SLCC)?
Independent my arse?
They have been caught with their preverbial pants down and still they are sticking to the tired old rhetoric that everything they do is brilliant?
The truth of the matter is that there are some criminals operating within the Law Society of Scotland?
Either they put their hands up and eject the criminal or the Police can come a looking and put a few arms up the backs if that is what they desire?
Your sick little game is up?
Well I think we all know what this really means.. as in Lets work together to get our stories straight before the media come along and ask difficult questions..
ReplyDeleteBad idea and anyway the SLCC is a waste of time from both solicitors and the clients perspectives.
ReplyDeleteWhy hang on to the biggest mistake in regulation ever or is this just an exercise in making sure Kenny MacAskill doesnt come out of this looking like the Law Society's stooge!
The time for working together has long since passed.
ReplyDeleteColluding to protect guilty lawyers has been a mess of your own making.
What a cheek you have to try to curry favour with those you torment.
The doors are finally shutting on the Law Society's SLCC.
Good point about FOI and the Law Society because you can be certain the LSoS will hold up confidentiality issues when it comes to sharing info with the SLCC and SLAB.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps SLAB and the SLCC will demand to be released from their responsibilities under Freedom of Information so they can bury themselves under a hole along with the Law Society.
Well done on causing everyone to run around like headless chickens after the bbc became involved.
ReplyDeleteThe elephant in the room routine seems to have paid off big time.
More nonsense from the slcc trying to preserve their jobs and cash flow
ReplyDeleteWork together!
ReplyDeleteYou have been working together already. That is precisely the problem!
Forget about the SLCC and Law Society's untruthful propaganda.
ReplyDeleteAs hundreds of wronged members of the Public will testify there are people involved in these organisations who have absolutely no interest in protecting the public from these criminals and no concerns whatsoever about subverting the law to achieve their sick goal, that is to keep crooked Scottish lawyers out of jail and to allow them to continue to cause havoc and damage to innocent members of the Scottish public?
A Public Enquiry is inevitable.
These crooks should be called the 'Untouchables' as the way the Law Society of Scotland have been allowed to operate above the law is akin to Al Capone and his gang from Chicago in the twenties and thirties?
ReplyDeleteThe Law Society running an unlawful syndicate to cheat the state, where they keep members of their gang safe from jail and able to act with impunity above the law?
The Law Society of Scotland or 'The Drumsheugh Mob' as they prefer to be called....
wow what a surprise the Law Society's little baby wants to run home to mummy and be able to share all the details of poor clients ripped off by their lawyers and guess what! the dirty filthy hands of the Legal Aid board who cant be bothered to press for prosecutions of 14 lawyers for stealing legal aid also wants in on the act!
ReplyDeleteThey are working together already to make sure no one gets anywhere with a complaint and this is the whole point of the Lawyers behaving badly story!
Let’s work together to identify dodgy lawyers: Scottish Legal Complaints Commission statement on BBC Scotland investigation of Lawyers Behaving Badly.
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Lets work together to destroy self regulation, it is the SLCC and all lawyer protecting bureaucracies that mean honest lawyers are as numerous as rocking horse droppings.
Perhaps the BBC would be interested in reporting the client side of the Scottish Legal Coverup Commission's activities top date. I am sure the commission won't mind as they keep telling us how honest and robust their complaints handling is. Oh yes let all those clients who have got rebuked by this Law Society Quango tell the way it really is, the SLCC like the rest of the mythical complaints process sit on their fat arse's and do nothing to help the client.
ReplyDeleteSLCC I am about to help you identify dodgy lawyers.
They are all dodgy, trust no lawyer. They get upset when their Legal Aid gravy train dries up, when they are exposed as corrupt. They will be the last to see they are all collectively held in pure contempt by the public. They want to continue to be allowed to ruin people, and move on to their next victim. To find out what is really happening ask the ruined clients, they will tell you there is no complaints system, just a facade to try and convince the public there is.
Don't trust these crooks who as the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal refer to lawyers as 'borrowing without consent' in my world that is called theft. Try that one in court, I did not steal a car I borrowed it without consent.
As the single gateway for all complaints against legal practitioners in Scotland [Ha Ha here we go another dose of polished bullshit when they claim they are the good guys, they are the opposite], we provide the first point of contact in the legal complaints system. [In the four years from 1 July 2009-30 June 2013, we dealt with 4929 complaints]. The press should speak and report on the experiences of the 4929 complainants. {In these four years they have consumed massive taxpayers cash protecting the people they are meant to regulate, don't trust them].
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A single gateway, I remember the document the Law Society sent out 'Reforming Complaints Handling Building Consumer Confidence'. I filled in the survey we got the Scottish Legal Coverup Commission. what a joke. I urge the public do not trust the Law Society or the Commission or anything to do with lawyers the are as bent as the back road to Argyle and if they rob you your money is gone. Corruption is profitable that is why they want to keep lawyers checking the conduct of lawyers, if you trust them you are taking a great risk.
Sounds like the Law Society are taking back control of the slcc?
ReplyDelete“No matter what material is handed over to the SLCC and how often you have to make the points again and again that your solicitor has stolen money and property deeds, this regulator seems to allow crooked lawyers to go on working”.
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I agree that is why they set up a system of self regulation to cover up legalized theft. There is no complaints system in place, only a facade.
It is too late.
ReplyDeleteWhy should the Scottish public give these hoods a second chance?
They have had plenty of time, resources and opportunity to regulate Scottish lawyers properly but instead they have colluded to keep lawyers out of jail?
No.
Their time is up and a Public Enquiry will get to the bottom of this corruption so that the public can eventually be protected?
“No matter what material is handed over to the SLCC and how often you have to make the points again and again that your solicitor has stolen money and property deeds, this regulator seems to allow crooked lawyers to go on working”.
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They are more corrupt than your lawyer. All a set up to make sure crooked lawyers never face the courts for their crimes against the Scottish public with the full approval of the corrupt Scottish Parliament. The SLCC have a filing system for complaints in my opinion and it is marked no action required on every complaint they receive. Their idea of justice is twisted, the only justice they care about is exonerating corrupt lawyers hence they are a collectively rotten apple cart, it is not a few bad apples it is systemic corruption.
20+ Scottish lawyers who have been found guilty of Professional Misconduct remain on the Criminal & Civil Legal Aid Register?
ReplyDeleteThis is tantamount to fraud as no way should they be allowed access to this gravy-train
What the hell is MacAskill doing about this corruption?
ReplyDeleteNo doubt we will get from him one of his infamous sanctimonious condescending speeches, where he professes to tell the Scottish People what is good for them and how brilliant the Law Society of Scotland is?
The veil is now lifted and we have now seen what is being allowed to go on behind our backs?
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ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is MacAskill doing about this corruption?
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This stooge is doing what he was elected to do NOTHING, he said 'Scotland owes a great debt to the Legal Profession' a Law Society front man a facade of a Justice Minister.
As the strongest bully among the three the Law Society will easily take over SLAB and the SLCC that is if they havent already
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ReplyDeleteBad idea and anyway the SLCC is a waste of time from both solicitors and the clients perspectives.
Why hang on to the biggest mistake in regulation ever or is this just an exercise in making sure Kenny MacAskill doesnt come out of this looking like the Law Society's stooge!
17 January 2014 17:42
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But he is already the Law Society's stooge.
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ReplyDelete“No matter what material is handed over to the SLCC and how often you have to make the points again and again that your solicitor has stolen money and property deeds, this regulator seems to allow crooked lawyers to go on working”.
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They are more corrupt than your lawyer. All a set up to make sure crooked lawyers never face the courts for their crimes against the Scottish public with the full approval of the corrupt Scottish Parliament. The SLCC have a filing system for complaints in my opinion and it is marked no action required on every complaint they receive. Their idea of justice is twisted, the only justice they care about is exonerating corrupt lawyers hence they are a collectively rotten apple cart, it is not a few bad apples it is systemic corruption.
18 January 2014 11:16
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The word on the street is that all the Law Society of Scotland have to do is to 'say the word' and the SLCC will 'stop a complaint in it's tracks at the Gateway Stage' as a favour for the Law Society of Scotland and to save their pals from jail?
A urgent Public Inquiry seems to be the only way the extent of these organisations crimes can be disclosed?
ReplyDeleteEither that or the police must move-in with the utmost haste to make their arrests before the Law Society of Scotland's shredding machine disposes of all of the incriminating evidence?
I am sorry but the Scottish Public won't be taken for fools again....
ReplyDeleteThe SLCC only upheld 9% of complaints!
A statistical analysis would show that this outcome is highly unlikely to be valid.
i.e. The SLCC are crooks too.
Who is responsible for all of this corruption?
ReplyDeleteThis is just window dressing and anyway why is it when a former Law Society employee at the SLCC is so obviously reporting home nothing is done about the leak?
ReplyDeleteSo everything the DOI team has been reporting for years is true.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, why has the 'independent' BBC taken so long to catch on? And where is STV in all of this, keeping its head down as usual.
The mess that is the Scottish Justice System make the so called Consumer protection and Human Rights organizations look like what they are, a waste of space.
How are the crooks at the Law Society going to explain their criminal conduct to the Police?
ReplyDeleteI spoke to our local lawyer this morning in the street and he said it was about time the Scottish Authorities broke up the Law Society's monopoly, which allowed them to behave as if they were above the law.
ReplyDeleteIt is hoped that the criminals responsible for allowing these crooked Scottish lawyers to evade justice are sentenced to long prison terms to act as a deterrent to prevent other crooks from following suit?
ReplyDeleteWill the crooked Scottish lawyers who have been allowed to unlawfully claim (defraud) money from the Criminal & Civil Legal Aid Fund whilst being found guilty of serious professional misconduct have to pay every penny back to the Public Purse to avoid jail?
ReplyDeleteWill the Office Bearers of the Law Society and the SLAB be sent to jail for defying the Solicitor (Scotland) Act 1980 and failing to protect the Scottish People?
Was the Law Society of Scotland's Lay-Convenor lying through her teeth or have some Office Bearer's who are lower than a snakes belly misled and misinformed her and served her up on a platter to be made to look like an fool, to take all of the flak away from them?
ReplyDeleteWell, it didn't work?
The last 10 years SSDT decisions will now have to be re-examined by an independent person if Justice is to prevail, as the SSDT have been shown to be a discredited and corrupt wing of the Law Society of Scotland?
ReplyDeleteIs there much point in working with the Law Society Mk2?
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ReplyDeleteThis is just window dressing and anyway why is it when a former Law Society employee at the SLCC is so obviously reporting home nothing is done about the leak?
18 January 2014 18:49
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All part of their plan
There must now be a Clarion Call sent out to all of those working at the Law Society and the SLCC to come forward and blow the whistle on the crime being perpetrated against the Scottish Public, safe in the knowledge that as a Whistleblower they will be protected and more so, that they will be treated royally by the Scottish People for doing what is right?
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to find out what Kenny MacAskill has to say about his beloved brethren lawyers, now that it has been revealed that the organisation supposed to be regulating the legal profession in Scotland has been outed for being up to their armpits in sleaze and corruption of the worst kind?
ReplyDeleteSurely, now Mr MacAskill must either order a Public Enquiry to be formed to investigate this widespread corruption or resign his post forthwith?
Now the 'mainstream' media and the rest of the Scottish Public now know what is being done in oak-panelled-rooms against them and against our country in favour of the few who think they are somehow better than the rest of us?
A big thanks goes out to the whole DOI journalists for not compromising their morals and judgement in the face of tyranny and having the courage of their convictions to keep doing the right thing time after time?
You are all amazing!
Is it not somewhat inequitable for those at the Law Society of Scotland, the SSDT, the SLCC and the SLAB to let lies trip off their tongue with such ease, when according to the system that has been allowed to evolve to protect them, that a member of the Public is powerless to challenge these lies?
ReplyDeleteHooray then for the BBC, who have just done what they were founded upon to do?
To speak up for the majority, the weak and the powerless, lest they be victimised by the corrupt?
The SLCC is such a bogus organisation. There is no way I would trust them with my case. Typical that they are looking for another chance. Another chance to stitch you up.
ReplyDeleteWell done.About time your bbc folks paid attention to what is going on with lawyers in the real world instead of make believe dramas!
ReplyDeleteGood to see all this reaction coming in to the BBC investigation.
ReplyDeleteSam did very well didn't she although at the end of the day I think we have you to thank for all of this.
Keep up the good work Peter,Scotland needs U!
The SSDT and the Law Society are in shock this morning, after the BBC's ground breaking exposure of corruption to let known dodgy lawyers off Scot Free?
ReplyDeleteAfter all, until now they have acted in the belief that they had secured the media & Press' silence to allow them to commit crime with impunity?
How exactly are you supposed to know if your prospective Scottish lawyer is one of those who have been guilty of crime but who have been let off with a slap on the wrist to allow them to deceive new unsuspecting clients?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of message does this give to those Scottish lawyers hell-bent on a career of crime against their clients and how can a client feel confident about their lawyer when the system that is supposed to control them is so corrupt?
Saw it.Seems to confirm all you have been writing about for the past umpteen years.
ReplyDeleteA question.Why was Peter Cherbi not on the telly?
With all the headlines you get you must be Scotlands version of Sherlock!Investigating judges and busting out crooked lawyers!Not exciting enough or what!
It somehow seems incomplete without youuuuuuuuu xxxx
"Our powers regarding complaints about the conduct of solicitors raised with us are limited. If we decide the complaint has merit, we will pass it over to the Law Society of Scotland to investigate. We can investigate how it handles the complaint, but only if the complainer asks us to and the action we can then take is restricted. We also audit the Law Society’s overall complaints process. We have no oversight over the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT)."
ReplyDeleteThey say their powers are limited.
So after being on the go since 2008 why not ask for greater powers to really do something against crooked lawyers instead saying they can only do a few things
Had a long session with my local CAB office about the SLCC and they kept assuring me my complaint would be properly investigated so I took the final decision (to do nothing) into their office and now they do not want to know me or even see me again just because I asked what do I do now and the woman said to me "get a lawyer and get out of our hair".What kind of attitude is this for Citizens Advice?????
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ReplyDeleteAs the strongest bully among the three the Law Society will easily take over SLAB and the SLCC that is if they havent already
18 January 2014 16:04
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At the time of the Fraudulent Fourteen
The Law Society of Scotland's reasoning was (to the SLAB) you cannot allow the Scottish Public to know what we get up to or else the Law Society of Scotland would go out of business and you (the SLAB) would be up shit creek?
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ReplyDeleteHad a long session with my local CAB office about the SLCC and they kept assuring me my complaint would be properly investigated so I took the final decision (to do nothing) into their office and now they do not want to know me or even see me again just because I asked what do I do now and the woman said to me "get a lawyer and get out of our hair".What kind of attitude is this for Citizens Advice?????
20 January 2014 16:15
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After Mr Cherbi's (Sherlock) article about the CAB staff member who was involved with O'Donnell re assuming the identity of a recently deceased lawyer, to be able to continue his crime spree, the CAB and the Law Society of Scotland entered into a secret pact, where the Law Society promised the CAB that they would cover-up for them and the actions of the Law Society's own lawyer?
So, there is no surprise there then....?
Have you considered reporting your crooked Scottish lawyer to the England & Wales Investigator of Lawyers?
By law you are entitled to have your case heard by an independent body and we know that the SLCC are NOT independent of the Law Society, just as the SSDT are NOT independent of them either?
It would be interesting to see what happened if everyone reported their crooked lawyer to England's System?
This Decision may be ruled as inadmissible by the corrupt Scottish Regime but at least you would get a clear impartial Decision, which you can then pursue your crooked lawyer through the courts with?
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ReplyDeleteSurprisingly common from increasing reports ...
You may be interested to read how one Citizens Advice Bureau in Hamilton has a relationship with corrupt solicitors who appeared on last week's BBC Scotland investigation ... more here: Citizens Advice Scotland and their relationship with rogue lawyers
Your case may benefit from some media attention ...
Let's not forget that at the root of all this is a notorious insurance firm whose reputation for corruption travels before it.
ReplyDeleteI refer of course to Marsh which has the Law Society of Scotland in its back pocket - hardly surprising given its chairman is former Tory cabinet minister Ian Lang.
Hmm quite worrying to read all that about CAB and what is essentially another big cover up of dealings with crooked lawyers
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ReplyDeleteDiary of Injustice I live in Hamilton and would not trust the CAB but of course they are the same everywhere.
I realise you write a lot about how lawyers dodge the complaints system but for me the killer issue now is these judges and their lack of a register of interests.
ReplyDeleteThis petition of yours strikes at the very heart of the justice system and has showed us the judges just cannot be trusted one bit.I have read all your reports about the petition along with the video footage from the Parliament and the Sunday Mail features and their editorial on the transparency points.All excellent reports and have probably done much more for the public's insight into the justice system than any I can think of.
Hope to see more about your petition soon.
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ReplyDeleteThe SLCC is such a bogus organisation. There is no way I would trust them with my case. Typical that they are looking for another chance. Another chance to stitch you up.
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Yes but the truth is that Lawyers are simply a bogus profession, I would not trust a lawyer never mind the SLCC Law Society or any of the rest of their cover up bureaucracies. They are a criminal cartel operating outside of the law and repeatedly ruin people because they know they can. They are legalized criminals.
5 months to get a decision from the SLCC they are doing nothing about my complaint and I have given them all the documentation they asked for and all the evidence speaks for itself so yes you are correct it is pro lawyer and anti client
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ReplyDelete"Our powers regarding complaints about the conduct of solicitors raised with us are limited. If we decide the complaint has merit, we will pass it over to the Law Society of Scotland to investigate. We can investigate how it handles the complaint, but only if the complainer asks us to and the action we can then take is restricted. We also audit the Law Society’s overall complaints process. We have no oversight over the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT)."
They say their powers are limited.
So after being on the go since 2008 why not ask for greater powers to really do something against crooked lawyers instead saying they can only do a few things
20 January 2014 15:23
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To remind you, there was a crooked deal cut by the then Scottish Government with the Law Society of Scotland the night before the vote on the LALP Bill, where over 100 amendments were slipped-in the night before the vote that brought the SLCC into power, giving the MSP's zero time to consider these amendments?
This fraudulent conduct (typical of the Law Society of Scotland) resulted in the bogus SLCC being instituted, which was always to allow the Law Society of Scotland to continue their corrupt ways and to keep their guilty lawyers out of jail?
The statistics of the SLCC prove this?
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ReplyDeleteWill the crooked Scottish lawyers who have been allowed to unlawfully claim (defraud) money from the Criminal & Civil Legal Aid Fund whilst being found guilty of serious professional misconduct have to pay every penny back to the Public Purse to avoid jail?
Will the Office Bearers of the Law Society and the SLAB be sent to jail for defying the Solicitor (Scotland) Act 1980 and failing to protect the Scottish People?
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I hope all of the other Scottish lawyers who would have benefited from getting the client business (from those fraudsters who claimed to the SLAB for cases, whilst being guilty of Professional Misconduct) are bitterly complaining to their 'Professional' organisation as to why they prefer to allow convicted Scottish lawyers access to Scottish Legal Aid Money instead of those clients being directed towards clean Scottish lawyers, who have NOT been found guilty of Professional Misconduct?
This reveals what the Law Society of Scotland are all about?
Will the Law Society of Scotland be informing all of the Client Victims, who through no fault of their own, had their Legal Aid Cases worked on by a crooked Scottish Lawyer, who had been found guilty of Professional Misconduct?
ReplyDeleteThe Law Society of Scotland have a Duty of Care under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 to protect the interests of the Scottish Public and the revelations by the BBC Special Investigations Team, shows that the Law Society of Scotland have been breaking the law in this respect for many years, as they have no interest whatsoever in the Interests of the Scottish Public because they allow crooked Solicitors unhindered access to Client Victims in order that they can continue screwing money out of the unsuspecting Scottish Public?
How many Clients would have continued to employ their Scottish lawyer, if they knew that their lawyer was a crook and had an appalling regulatory history (even from the corrupt, weak arm of the Law Society of Scotland the SSDT - in fact this makes it even worse)?
The answer zero!
So, the Law Society of Scotland's corrupt practices have been enriching their member crooked Scottish lawyers at the expense and to the detriment of the Scottish Public, who have no way of knowing that they are getting something less than they expect?
Once the Law Society of Scotland contact all of these Clients who have been victims over the years, are all of these cases to be annulled?
Have all of the victims found guilty be set free?
And compensation, I hope the Law Society of Scotland is preparing their Broker Marsh for a hundreds of Millions of Pounds pay-out?
Anyone thinking lawyers are going to break ranks and complain about the Law Society re regulation is living in a fantasy world.
ReplyDeleteGet it folks lawyers love self regulation because they cannot do without it.If regulation was really independent then about half or more of the law firms currently in business would be closed down.
The whole of their World is stacked up against you and you have nobody on your side.
ReplyDeleteThis is not Justice.
They even refer to you as a 'complainer' instead of the universally accepted 'complainant' but they like to titter at referring to you (their victim) in derogatory and insulting terms?
What a bunch of creeps.
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ReplyDeleteAnyone thinking lawyers are going to break ranks and complain about the Law Society re regulation is living in a fantasy world.
Get it folks lawyers love self regulation because they cannot do without it.If regulation was really independent then about half or more of the law firms currently in business would be closed down.
21 January 2014 14:37
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I was listening to the conversation on the train into Edinburgh the other day and they were all cursing the fact that the Law Society of Scotland had been finally found out being corrupt?
The common consensus was that they would all have to take their kids out of Private Schooling because they thought that there would be a clamp-down on the rich-pickings from the Scottish Legal Aid fund since the Law Society were caught out facilitating their payments and allowing wholesale corruption?