tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post1600392532218677557..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: LIAR AID : Paisley law firm removed from criminal legal assistance register, questions remain why no prosecution after lawyer repaid £221k to SLABUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-60252471335635342582011-03-15T20:28:29.882+00:002011-03-15T20:28:29.882+00:00"I hope your website gets as well known and w..."I hope your website gets as well known and widely used as it deserves to be.<br /><br />I have to say that after my two years in a legal tussel with my solicitor I've realised we are powerless and there is no justice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-40881504430369405192011-03-15T18:51:51.265+00:002011-03-15T18:51:51.265+00:00Shamed lawyer stays out of court despite admitting...Shamed lawyer stays out of court despite admitting £221k of bogus claims<br /><br />Jul 18 2010 Exclusive by Derek Alexander, Sunday Mail<br /><br />A LAWYER has escaped the dock - after handing back more than £200,000 of bogus legal aid claims.<br /><br />A criminal probe into Iain Robertson has been dropped after he returned £221,847 to the Scottish Legal Aid Board.<br /><br />Amazingly, Robertson is even allowed to continue claiming legal aid for civil cases while waiting to discover if he will be struck off.<br /><br />The scandal centred on the 57-year-old shamed solicitor and his firm Robertson & Ross in Paisley.<br /><br />Another lawyer - Aberdeen-based Alastair Gibb - was also investigated.<br /><br />Scots Lib Dem justice spokesman Robert Brown demanded to know why Robertson is not being taken to court.<br /><br />WELL ROBERT, HE CLEARLY HAS FRIENDS IN THE RIGHT PLACES, THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO COURT ACTION. <br /><br />DEMOCRACY, ALL EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, B******T.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-1560441988630529042011-03-15T12:49:50.955+00:002011-03-15T12:49:50.955+00:00A Solicitor in my fly fishing club told me the leg...A Solicitor in my fly fishing club told me the legal system in Scotland is totally corrupt. This shocked me, (not what he said) but the fact that he said it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-90059546979826086922011-03-15T11:23:25.693+00:002011-03-15T11:23:25.693+00:00Anonymous said...
My solicitor made me pay him £3...Anonymous said...<br /><br />My solicitor made me pay him £3000 even though I am on legal aid and he got the form to say no need to make any payments do you think this is right?<br />----------------------------------<br />Lawyers police their own, so they can do what they want. Your lawyer is a criminal acting AGAINST you, but the Law society cause client suicides, so they will not care about your lawyer robbing you. <br /><br />It is not right but who will stop him?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-15357172167867548112011-03-15T10:27:34.015+00:002011-03-15T10:27:34.015+00:00If I could rob £221,000.00 from a high street bank...If I could rob £221,000.00 from a high street bank and the police caught me and dropped the case I would be a legally protected criminal. <br /><br />This folks is what lawyers are, steal from the taxpayer, no questions asked, the Crown Office look after their own. Justice and fairness? I think not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-68510139958995455182011-03-14T23:47:33.648+00:002011-03-14T23:47:33.648+00:00Knife thugs, thieves, drug dealers, paedophiles, r...Knife thugs, thieves, drug dealers, paedophiles, rent boy users, this is what you deal with in law firms. Sicko's protected by a sicker parliament, SSDT, Law Society, SLCC.<br /><br />Human filth no wonder no one of any intelligence trusts them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63641121021818843072011-03-14T20:27:25.926+00:002011-03-14T20:27:25.926+00:00Why exactly were these lawyers not charged with fr...Why exactly were these lawyers not charged with fraud ?<br />If you steal from legal aid we are always told its a criminal offence (it says so on the claim form) so why were they not charged or arrested ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24573277305674847642011-03-14T19:08:26.160+00:002011-03-14T19:08:26.160+00:00Anonymous said...
my solicitor made me pay him £3...Anonymous said...<br /><br />my solicitor made me pay him £3000 even though I am on legal aid and he got the form to say no need to make any payements do you think this is right?<br /><br />13 March 2011 18:47<br /><br />TELL PETER ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU REPORT THESE CROOKS BECAUSE THE SLCC & LAW SOCIETY WILL DO NOTHINGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86048958471924525502011-03-14T17:33:12.435+00:002011-03-14T17:33:12.435+00:00I hope Mr Dailly is paying attention to this annou...I hope Mr Dailly is paying attention to this announcement because he accused SLAB's Chief Executive of saying lawyers cant get their sums right.<br />I'd say Mr Robertson DID NOT get his sums right either if he had to repay £221k!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-42205636292586652642011-03-14T15:56:43.670+00:002011-03-14T15:56:43.670+00:00Huh it looks like the newspapers and Peter do a be...Huh it looks like the newspapers and Peter do a better job of regulating crooked lawyers than the Law Society can manage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-55384987488153265192011-03-14T15:15:26.450+00:002011-03-14T15:15:26.450+00:00"Clearly, Messrs Robertson & Ross must ha..."Clearly, Messrs Robertson & Ross must have failed to meet those those “standards of service” which SLAB claim to rigorously enforce, although why the law firm was not charged with criminal offences is yet to be exposed in a scandal which may well rock the Scottish Legal Aid Board, the Crown Office and the Law Society of Scotland."<br /><br />I look forward to hearing about this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-27315746722654319792011-03-14T11:31:51.778+00:002011-03-14T11:31:51.778+00:00Only a legal dictatorship would attempt to close d...Only a legal dictatorship would attempt to close down dissident websites. They are there because self regulation did not protect them. <br /><br />No one can sue a lawyer, it is engineered that way. So is trusting them with wills, mortgages, business dealings wise? <br /><br /><br />This is how the state treat dissidents in Scotland, Cathy Jamiesons "Reforming Complaints Handling, Building Consumer Confidence" was a lie. <br /><br />Perhaps she would shoot all of us?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66610954627691810652011-03-14T10:00:59.405+00:002011-03-14T10:00:59.405+00:00No wonder the Law Society of Scotland is dead agai...No wonder the Law Society of Scotland is dead against a public register of complaints against solicitors - hide the truth at any cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22000851849281364892011-03-14T00:38:47.013+00:002011-03-14T00:38:47.013+00:00http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2006/03/my-blog-ma...http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2006/03/my-blog-makes-headlines-in-scottish.html<br /><br />A lawyer hiring a hitman to attack another lawyer .... would be one in the eye for those at the Law Society who, on Friday,opportunistically & viciously turned on aggrieved clients who have started their own websites & protest groups, wanting all such expressions of free speech by those disaffected by the Scottish legal profession 'shut down' on the basis that those 'aggrieved clients' websites & protests are allegedly 'calls for violence' ..... however, it seems the "violence" has probably come from the within legal profession itself ....<br /><br /><br />LEGAL POWER FAILS WHEN THEY TURN TO VIOLENCE. PROTEST GROUPS ARE THE VOICE OF LAW SOCIETIES COVERUPS. WHY WOULD WE GO TO SUCH LENGTHS. PROTEST GROUPS MUST BE HEARD OR THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY.<br /><br />EVERY HOUR SOMEONE IS SHOWN WHAT YOU LEGALLY QUALIFIED GARBAGE ARE, SCUM, DEVOID OF RIGHT AND WRONG AND BLIND TO INJUSTICE. CIVIL LAWYERS ARE THE ENEMIES OF ALL DECENT HUMAN BEINGS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-65101604506374823922011-03-14T00:26:21.614+00:002011-03-14T00:26:21.614+00:00All this makes you really wonder just why the Scot...All this makes you really wonder just why the Scottish Executive is so hell bent on clamping down on campaign & protest groups against the legal profession. <br />==================================<br />In all things legal Peter Scottish dissent would be crushed, but they cannot. No country can claim to be a democracy if it crushes its own citizens right to free speech. That is why Mr Mill talked about the thorns in the legal professions flesh.<br /><br />He should try being on the client side, he would not want to crush dissent, he would be the loudest mouth on the planet. <br /><br />Lawyers are pure evil and scum. We would rather be murdered than be silenced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16998305043161851632011-03-14T00:01:38.208+00:002011-03-14T00:01:38.208+00:00All this makes you really wonder just why the Scot...All this makes you really wonder just why the Scottish Executive is so hell bent on clamping down on campaign & protest groups against the legal profession, such as Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers, Injustice Scotland ... and the rest .. to stop public critisism of the legal profession ... (example - Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson proclaiming the SACL website to be defamatory and using the Scottish Courts Service to shut it down .... ) kinda .. sinister, wouldn't you say<br /><br />WELL CATHY, YOU WANTED TO CURB CRITISISM OF LEGITIMATE DISSENT, I AM NOT CALLING YOU A NAZI, BUT HITLER DID THE SAME. <br /><br />USING THE LEGAL SYSTEM TO PROTECT ITS PRACTITIONERS IS A CRIMINAL THING TO DO. IT AMOUNTS TO REMOVING RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, (BY ARGUING SACL WERE DEFAMATORY) AND WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU UNDERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTED LEADERS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS, A THING CALLED CITIZENSHIP. HOW DARE YOU AND MAKASKILL IS THE SAME. <br /><br />YOU TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ANY PRESSURE GROUP YOU ELEVATE WHAT YOU WANT TO CRUSH. YOU ARE NOT TOO BRIGHT ARE YOU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16844233012433579592011-03-13T23:28:59.474+00:002011-03-13T23:28:59.474+00:00WE HAVE A LEGAL SYSTEM AND PARLIAMENT BASED NOT ON...WE HAVE A LEGAL SYSTEM AND PARLIAMENT BASED NOT ON JUSTICE, BUT DIFFERENCE. THAT IS WHY LAWYERS ARE SO DANGEROUS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-53275653947528955592011-03-13T23:27:35.694+00:002011-03-13T23:27:35.694+00:00Anonymous said...
Legal Aid is a racket just look...Anonymous said...<br /><br />Legal Aid is a racket just look at the problems these so-called Human Rights cases are causing or costing all of us and its really just some lawyer going round the jails to see how much he can milk from the system to fatten his own wallet.Scum by any other name!<br /><br />BUT REMEMBER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE NO HUMAN RIGHTS IF THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT A LAWYER, POLITICALLY CLIENTS ARE NOT HUMAN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-78479023587987740252011-03-13T23:00:48.089+00:002011-03-13T23:00:48.089+00:00So - beware of your crooked lawyer - they might ju...So - beware of your crooked lawyer - they might just be a murderer, a drug runner, a gun runner, an embezzler, a thief (especially of your money, your house, or a will) ... or just a plain crook .. take your pick .. there are around 10,000 of them to choose from in Scotland .. and plenty more law students up and coming to join their crooked ranks ... and my oh my, <br /><br /><br />I could tell you a thing or two about some of those 'up and coming' law students .. GOOD IDEA PETER, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR ARTICLE ON THIS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61709130253469899702011-03-13T22:58:22.409+00:002011-03-13T22:58:22.409+00:00http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2006/03/crooked-la...http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2006/03/crooked-lawyer-one-of-cream-of.html<br /><br />A Crooked Lawyer - one of the 'cream' of the Scottish Legal Profession exposed as a drug runner - and now awaiting a jail term !<br />What an honour this must be for the Law Society of Scotland, and the reputation of Scottish lawyers everywhere ...... someone from the supposed 'cream' of the Scottish legal profession, found guilty for ... drug running .... and making plenty money at it too it seems ....<br /><br />Yes folks, this is just another example of just how crooked, low down, and dirty, the Scottish legal profession has become - from running drugs, to threatening clients & ruining their lives, to buying off politicians, and to even apparently ordering murder hits on their own colleagues .... what a bunch ! - use a lawyer ?? we shouldn't touch those people with a barge pole these days - they are a danger & a menace to us all - including their own it seems .... when some of them are suspected of ordering murder hits on their own colleagues .....<br /><br />All this makes you really wonder just why the Scottish Executive is so hell bent on clamping down on campaign & protest groups against the legal profession, such as Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers, Injustice Scotland ... and the rest .. to stop public critisism of the legal profession ... (example - Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson proclaiming the SACL website to be defamatory and using the Scottish Courts Service to shut it down .... ) kinda .. sinister, wouldn't you say ??? so why would the Government in Scotland be trying to shut up the critics of the Scottish legal profession, which is obviously riddled with so much corruption ? is it, that the Scottish Executive are getting some kind of backhander from the legal mafia to keep things quiet ? or is it something a lot more sinister we are missing maybe even something connected with the likes of the McKie case ? or connected with .. many cases involving crooked lawyers, some of them now promoted to .. .Judges .... do email me with your thoughts !<br /><br /><br />CATHY JAMIESON WANTED TO SHUT DOWN SCOTLAND AGAINST CROOKED LAWYERS, (THE LOGOS CATHY) FREEDOM OF SPEECH, LET ME TELL YOU A FACT, NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH, NO POLITICS. <br /><br />THE LAW SOCIETY MAY AS WELL MOVE INTO THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BECAUSE IT IS THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-8638498631114540452011-03-13T22:39:33.483+00:002011-03-13T22:39:33.483+00:00Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference argued her ...Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference argued her party was looking after Scotlands interests.<br /><br />Who are you kidding Nicola you SNP's and MSP's would sell any of your constituents down the Clyde for the Law Society and its corrupt membership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-13176258541655386762011-03-13T20:59:44.492+00:002011-03-13T20:59:44.492+00:00Anonymous said...
Yet another stitch up I ass...Anonymous said...<br /><br /> Yet another stitch up I assume because if it had been some client who took the money they would have been in court found guilty and probably hanged by now<br /><br /> 12 March 2011 15:01<br /><br />EXACTLY!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-71792817827891085512011-03-13T18:47:16.128+00:002011-03-13T18:47:16.128+00:00my solicitor made me pay him £3000 even though I a...my solicitor made me pay him £3000 even though I am on legal aid and he got the form to say no need to make any payements do you think this is right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16014220991607060932011-03-13T17:23:49.973+00:002011-03-13T17:23:49.973+00:00I wonder how many lawyers in Scotland have ever be...I wonder how many lawyers in Scotland have ever been charged with legal aid fraud?<br /><br />If its 0 or close to it well we know who is to blame!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-44857761524572531072011-03-13T15:58:19.544+00:002011-03-13T15:58:19.544+00:00Where are the crap SLCC to protect us from the lik...Where are the crap SLCC to protect us from the likes of these liars?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com