tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post4240236038172076953..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Westminster Expenses : They work for you, are paid for by you, have possibly stolen from you, but they feel they are not accountable to youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-2750353554571713692009-06-19T13:48:14.204+01:002009-06-19T13:48:14.204+01:00BBC NEWS
NEVER TRUST A LAWYER THEY ARE CROOKS
J...BBC NEWS <br /><br />NEVER TRUST A LAWYER THEY ARE CROOKS<br /><br />Jail term for former councillor<br />A former Conservative councillor who stole £70,000 from a disabled client who depended upon him as a close friend has been jailed for 27 months.<br /><br />Disgraced Iain Catto, 41, offered to look after the finances of Francis Fleming, 59, after he became partially paralysed following a savage assault.<br /><br />Catto, who was sacked from his job as a solicitor for gross misconduct, was regularly taking money from Mr Fleming.<br /><br />Catto pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to the theft.<br /><br />He was stealing sums of £11,000 and £9,000 at a time between December 2002 and 2004 from the criminal injuries pay-out his client had received. (NEVER TRUST A LAWYER FOLKS).<br /><br />He even sold some of his victim's shares to get more cash.<br /><br />Sheriff Kathrine Mackie told him: "You callously took funds from Mr Fleming to support yourself when you knew that he depended on that money and you. It was a gross breach of trust." (WELL SAID SHERIFF MACKIE).<br /><br />Mr Fleming's son Frank MacLennan, 42, hit out at the sentence outside the court. (YES THEY SHOULD HAVE THREW THE KEY AWAY. YOU LAWYER CROOKS OUT THERE, YOU WILL GET CAUGHT SOONER OR LATER).<br /><br />He said: "That is not long enough for what he did to my father. He should have been given at least three or four years." (30 WOULD BE BETTER).<br /><br />Bank statements<br /><br />Edinburgh Sheriff Court had heard that Catto, a member of Lothian Regional Council from 1990 to 1994, frequently asked Mr Fleming to sign blank cheques pretending to look after his finances and had bank statements sent to his home address.<br /><br />Mr Fleming, who was left partially paralysed and impaired following an attempt on his life in 1968, trusted the solicitor so completely he even gave him a key to his Craigentinny Road home in Edinburgh.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Catto was buying himself airline and train tickets for the UK and abroad, hotel rooms, restaurant meals, computer software, £300 worth of goods from Oddbins and expensive haircuts. (BAD CHAP THIS CATTO).<br /><br />Catto carried on with the scam until he was found out by Mr MacLennan, who moved from Inverness to Edinburgh to look after his father in July, 2004.<br /><br />Mr MacLennan said outside of court: "He bled my father dry. We had been planning to move to Spain but now that idea is gone. He lied to my dad and me from the start.<br /><br />"Although he has repaid the money he cashed in shares that were earning my dad an income. I discovered the stealing when I saw my dad writing blank cheques and looked into it.<br /><br />"I feel very angry and my dad is devastated and hurt. He considered him to be a very close friend and depended upon him." (PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND NO LAWYER IS YOUR FRIEND, YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON ANY OF THEM, PROFESSIONAL ROBBING SCUM).<br />Story from BBC NEWS:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-23950256063761444502009-06-19T12:24:17.638+01:002009-06-19T12:24:17.638+01:00VEXACIOUS LITIGANTS ARTICLE.
THIS PERSON IS CORREC...VEXACIOUS LITIGANTS ARTICLE.<br />THIS PERSON IS CORRECT.<br /><br />"If you are talking about the actual cases at hand I think you will find Mr Cherbi is correct. Most or all of the vexatious 6 were indulged enough with court time obtained by legal firms for just long enough to give them a chance to begin an action for fees recovery before the litigant was judged vexatious". <br /><br />SO TRUE, THE LAWYERS MADE THEIR MONEY AND THEN A DRACONIAN ACT IS USED TO STOP THE CASES IN THEIR TRACKS. MOST TYPES OF LITIGATION FOLLOW THIS PATTERN, THE LEGAL PROFESSION MILK THE LEGAL AID FOR A LONG AS THEY CAN, THEN THE CASE IS KILLED OFF BECAUSE OF PROFESSIONAL LOYALTY AND<br /><br />ADVOCATES<br />LAWYERS<br />JUDGES <br />SHERIFFS<br /><br />THE LAW SOCIETY FOR SCOTLAND INSURE THE ABOVE THROUGH THE MASTER INSURANCE WITH MARSH UK ROYAL SUN ALLIANCE. PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND YOU CANNOT WIN A LITIGATION BATTLE AGAINST A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL, THE LAW SOCIETIES INSURERS (AND LAWYERS THROUGH THEIR PREMIUMS)WOULD BE PAYING YOUR DAMAGES. FROM THE LAWYERS POINT OF VIEW IT IS LIKE TURKEYS VOTING FOR CHRISTMAS.<br /><br />THIS IS WHAT EVERY LITIGATION LAWYER IN SCOTLAND WANTS KEPT SECRET. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LAY THE BOOT INTO THEIR OWN INSURERS FOR YOU. BUT LIKE THE MP's THEY MILK EXPENSES, WITH LAWYERS IT'S LEGAL AID. LEAD THE CLIENT UP THE GARDEN PATH OF INJUSTICE, THAT'S HOW LAWYERS WORK. <br /><br />WAKE UP YOU CANNOT WIN AGAINST A LAWYER UNDER THE CURRENT SYSTEM, THIS CONFLICT ON INTEREST PROTECTS MARSH UK ROYAL SUN ALLIANCE BECAUSE YOU MAY GET A LAWYER, SO THE LATTER CAN MAKE MONEY BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET TO COURT. THIS IS THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEGAL PROFESSION WANT TO MAINTAIN, BECAUSE IT IS EASY MONEY, AND THEIR INSURERS BENEFIT. ONLY THE CLIENT HAS NO CHANCE OF WINNING.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31720782562417624272009-06-19T12:01:02.571+01:002009-06-19T12:01:02.571+01:00BBC NEWS
Page last updated at Wednesday, 17 June,...BBC NEWS<br /><br />Page last updated at Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 17:19 GMT 18:19 UK<br /> <br />MPs' expenses: Jimmy Hood<br /><br />Parliament has published the details of MPs' expenses. The documents cover financial years from 2004 to 2008 and have been released in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act. <br />Labour MP for Lanark & Hamilton East<br />Hood, Mr Jim<br />2007-08<br />Total expenses £156,260<br />of which second<br />home allowance £19,353Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-40834667565170375852009-06-19T11:55:40.617+01:002009-06-19T11:55:40.617+01:00Personally I think this lot INCLUDING SALMOND are ...Personally I think this lot INCLUDING SALMOND are taking us for a bunch of mugs.<br /><br />They should only be allowed so long serving as an mp or msp and then be forced to quit because its very clear to me plenty are just in it for the money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-46853314628523907122009-06-19T10:52:14.784+01:002009-06-19T10:52:14.784+01:00AOL NEWS £500,000 in expenses repaid by MPs
Last U...AOL NEWS £500,000 in expenses repaid by MPs<br />Last Updated: Friday, 19 June 2009, 05:36 GMT<br /><br />Expenses claims and supporting receipts featuring large blacked out areas<br /><br />MPs have paid back nearly £500,000 of taxpayers' money in a bid to quell voters' (WILL NOT WORK) anger since the expenses scandal broke.<br /><br />The news of the total paid back came as the House of Commons continued to be accused of an attempted cover up (END SELF REGULATION NOW) after the official release of MPs expenses was heavily censored.<br /><br />Figures released by the Commons authorities show £478.615.07 has been returned by MPs (CAN WE TRUST COMMONS AUTHORITIES)? who broke rules or who decided to hand back cash in a bid to quell constituents' anger. <br />-----------------------------------<br />Remember they are paying money back because we found out. If we had not they would still be robbing taxpayers. Politicians like the professions must never be trusted again. Robbing corrupt bastards who are above the law. <br /><br />The police who cannot legally strike are being robbed too, they should remember that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-69856131782835255622009-06-19T10:44:24.128+01:002009-06-19T10:44:24.128+01:00It is time the British people revolted, get rid of...It is time the British people revolted, get rid of these bastards who are stealing our money. Give them the longshanks treatment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-46786186918619049372009-06-19T10:30:44.943+01:002009-06-19T10:30:44.943+01:00Yes what a rip off I agree Peter and no one is whi...Yes what a rip off I agree Peter and no one is whiter than white when it comes to politics ! They are all crooked,probably learned all their tricks from the legal profession from which many of them come from !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-56009726225897649532009-06-19T01:10:33.025+01:002009-06-19T01:10:33.025+01:00For a good example of what these people think of U...For a good example of what these people think of US you should have seen Eric Joyce on Newsnight !<br /><br />Really amazing (and very very very weird !)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-14477277967749544102009-06-19T00:33:21.565+01:002009-06-19T00:33:21.565+01:00If you have been injured at work, and you sued you...If you have been injured at work, and you sued you would need medical reports.<br /><br />The doctors, lawyers and your family doctor and your employer are all insured by Marsh UK Royal Sun Alliance. So your injuries were covered up to protect these professionals insurers. Your GP must never be trusted if you sue your employer, and do not expect to win. You cannot with this insurance arrangement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-23234351957673958552009-06-18T23:56:35.946+01:002009-06-18T23:56:35.946+01:00Someone said Alex Salmond admitted he wasn't w...Someone said Alex Salmond admitted he wasn't whiter than white ?<br /><br />Hell I'd say he's blacker than black with all that black ink floating around his MP chums !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-5466747454706221392009-06-18T23:31:31.007+01:002009-06-18T23:31:31.007+01:00I agree with what you say Peter,and also those of ...I agree with what you say Peter,and also those of your followers who put this expenses mess down to self regulation.As long as politicians make the rules for themselves they will get away with what they want to,just like your nemesis the Law Society who do a good job of protecting themselves from any transparency.<br /><br />I think you probably summed it up quite well when you said transparency and accountability has been blacked out in Britain.That is the reality of life but it doesn't mean we should accept it and people like you and the media who expose these scandals actually do us a lot of good and give a much needed kick into touch for some of us who have ignored things too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-52717130149091882642009-06-18T22:50:01.956+01:002009-06-18T22:50:01.956+01:00What we are witnessing, is the political establish...What we are witnessing, is the political establishment looking after itself. We should remember there was a five year battle over the expenses issue, and the press revealed the truth. <br /><br />Documents issued with large areas blanked out, what's the phrase, oh yes, the plot thickens. Those parts blanked out are not so much about MP's security, more about the scandal.<br /><br />John Major wants the Iraq enquiry to be public. I agree with him. Clearly the issues for going to war are in the public interest. A private enquiry stinks, reminds me of the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal methods. Tony Blair went to war on lies, and Dr David Kelly the weapons inspector was the scapegoat, remember Blair is a lawyer.<br /><br />People should have a look at Michael Moores Farenheight 9/11, Bush looks very uncomfortable in some shots, there is a close correlation between the Bush family and the Saudi's. Please check it out for yourselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-2257680757968698372009-06-18T22:36:31.297+01:002009-06-18T22:36:31.297+01:00Disgusted at all of them we should be having a rev...Disgusted at all of them we should be having a revolution now in this stupid country ! TOU ARE RIGHT, IT HAS NOT DONE THE FRENCH ANY HARM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-51824864446104874852009-06-18T22:19:24.066+01:002009-06-18T22:19:24.066+01:00blears the duckhouse salmond darling all of them a...blears the duckhouse salmond darling all of them are just the bloody same no wonder people are not going to voteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-30199585088807192262009-06-18T21:37:48.079+01:002009-06-18T21:37:48.079+01:00Thanks for the links Peter.I did go to bbc and che...Thanks for the links Peter.I did go to bbc and check up on my own mp and no surprise I think he is a ******* crook along with the rest and just reading some of the documents is stomach turning what they get away with.Disgusted at all of them we should be having a revolution now in this stupid country !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-75384139197050430402009-06-18T21:05:02.361+01:002009-06-18T21:05:02.361+01:00Well I am really disgusted at all politicians and ...Well I am really disgusted at all politicians and I dont think I will bother voting next time for any of these robbers.<br /><br />I wonder how crooked lawyers fits into the scheme of things at Westminster.Maybe they were giving these mps preferred bids on properties so they could claim their mortgages on us too.Hope you look into that one Peter because I suspect anything with this mob now.They are all crooked to the last every one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-51435772036147770602009-06-18T20:26:04.337+01:002009-06-18T20:26:04.337+01:00lol @ Salmond's claims
"Letter Folder @ ...lol @ Salmond's claims<br /><br />"Letter Folder @ £1795"<br /><br />Doesn't he have a secretary ? haha *sick*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-43039191457922689722009-06-18T20:13:51.459+01:002009-06-18T20:13:51.459+01:00What a bunch of bloody crooks our politicians are....What a bunch of bloody crooks our politicians are.None can be trusted ! NONE OF THEM !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-6933657429976799552009-06-18T20:10:14.481+01:002009-06-18T20:10:14.481+01:00I don't know what all the fuss is about, Alex ...I don't know what all the fuss is about, Alex Salmond on record as admitting he is not 'whiter than white'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39231131373991339012009-06-18T19:57:04.306+01:002009-06-18T19:57:04.306+01:00http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8107603.stm
H...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8107603.stm<br /><br />How stupid is this ? Alex Salmond costs the taxpayer £14,100 in legal fees to try and impeach Tony Blair and the fees get paid to Blair's wife ? hahaha what a jerk !<br /><br />Blair impeachment bill defended<br /><br />First Minister Alex Salmond has defended a £14,100 legal fee claim for an attempt to impeach Tony Blair as prime minister, over the Iraq war.<br /><br />The details emerged as expense claims of every MP for the past four years were published, but with some key details blacked out.<br /><br />Mr Salmond, said he claimed for £790 of the total cost, which was shared among nine members.<br /><br />He said it was a legitimate expense to hold the government to account.<br /><br />Commons authorities published the details after a long-running Freedom of Information battle.<br /><br />The addresses that claims relate to - and correspondence - have been removed on privacy and security grounds.<br /><br />'Check records'<br /><br />This means it is not possible to see if MPs "flipped" second homes - a key part of the Daily Telegraph's revelations from its leaked version of the data.<br /><br />The invoice for the contentious rewiring of Labour MP Jim Devine's London flat was mostly backed out.<br /><br />The Livingston MP - who has been deselected by Labour from standing for the party in the next UK election - claimed £2,157 for the work in 2007.<br /><br />But the invoice was from a company that did not exist and had a false VAT number and neither the company, its address or the VAT number are legible on the released document.<br /><br />Mr Devine said he had done nothing wrong.<br /><br />Elsewhere, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael claimed a £90 summons fee for late payment of council tax in May 2007.<br /><br />Surgery dates<br /><br />The MP for Orkney and Shetland told BBC Scotland he would check his records and, if he claimed money inappropriately, would pay it back.<br /><br />And Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has defended claims for nearly £300 for the printing of 5,000 Christmas cards in 2006.<br /><br />A spokesman for Mr Murphy, who was employment minister at the time, said the cost of the cards was shared with Labour MSP for Eastwood, Ken Macintosh, and contained details of future constituency surgery dates for the politicians.<br /><br />The SNP launched its legal bid to impeach Tony Blair in 2004, claiming the invasion of Iraq to be illegal.<br /><br />A spokesman for Mr Salmond, who sits as an MSP and MP, said: "Given everything we know about the illegality of the war, the fact the country was taken to war on a totally false prospectus, then those parties who stood against that and held the prime minister to account for doing that are proud of the actions they took.<br /><br />The legal bill - split among nine Scottish and Welsh Nationalist MPs - was paid to Matrix Chambers, the legal firm where Cherie Blair works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-58334345488750438252009-06-18T19:44:58.723+01:002009-06-18T19:44:58.723+01:00so much for Saint Alex.I cant even get a bloody mo...so much for Saint Alex.I cant even get a bloody mortgage and we are paying his ! DISGUSTING and the tory weed tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-71081955635647363172009-06-18T19:25:33.368+01:002009-06-18T19:25:33.368+01:00MSP Slams Crown Office Handling Of The Rosepark Ca...MSP Slams Crown Office Handling Of The Rosepark Case<br /><br />May 28 2009 by Alastair McNeill, Hamilton Advertiser<br /><br />THE CROWN Office was under fire from a Lanarkshire MSP this week over their handling of the prosecution of the Rosepark care home owners.<br /><br />Hamilton North and Bellshill MSP Michael McMahon welcomed last week’s announcement of a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the blaze in which 14 elderly residents lost their lives.<br /><br />However, he expressed doubt this week over assurances which he said had been given to him by Solicitor General Frank Mulholland that the criminal prosecution of the Rose-park owners had been part of a ‘strategy’ from the outset.<br />A third attempt to prosecute Thomas Balmer (61), his wife Anne (60) and their son Alan (34) was thrown out at the High Court in Glasgow last Tuesday.<br /><br />Judge Lord Matthews had described as “fatal” to the prosecution the decision to indict the Balmers, of Royal Gardens, Bothwell, as the surviving partners of the now-dissolved Rosepark Care Home.<br /><br />Mr McMahon said this week that it was now difficult not to see the Crown Office’s prosecution of the case as flawed and a waste of taxpayers’ money.<br /><br />He said: “I have always worked on the basis that the Crown never saw this coming. Someone somewhere hadn’t done the necessary work to see that the paperwork was in order. I have never been disabused of this idea.<br />“I was given the idea that the Crown Office went into this thinking they had a case to bring and it fell down because something hadn’t been done properly.<br />“Last week the First Minister took umbrage when I said in Parliament that the prosecution pursued had been a mistake.”<br /><br />“The Solicitor General later reassured me that there had been no mistake and the Crown Office had pursued the prosecution as a strategy from the outset.<br /><br />“As far as I’m concerned the families expected to see a legal prosecution. I was told they were pursuing a legal prosecution and the legal prosecution failed. That does not seem to me to be a strategy.<br /><br />“What they are trying to get me to believe is that they pursued a legal action which they knew was doomed from the outset.<br /><br />“I don’t know if that is a better situation than somebody making a mistake.”<br /><br />Mr McMahon added that it appeared to him that a huge amount of public money had been spent to pursue a case which had little chance of success.<br /><br />He commented: “If they knew a loophole existed, it raises doubts in my mind about the strategy they had been pursuing all along.<br />“During all this time they could have held a Fatal Accident Inquiry. They have been telling families that they’ve been pursuing a legal action, yet one which they knew was doomed.<br />“I have to ask if the prosecution wasn’t a mistake, then why didn’t they go for an FAI during their prosecution strategy?”<br /><br />Now I would not put my mother in a care home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-48404674293296488772009-06-18T19:12:10.299+01:002009-06-18T19:12:10.299+01:00People should not be surprised at the MP's exp...People should not be surprised at the MP's expenses scandal. This is what humans do when they act in secret. Claim for everything you can.<br /><br />The fact that MP's do not think they have done anything wrong, speaks volumes about the culture self regulation creates. Self regulators will always put their own interests first, and this is the reason self regulation must now end for all professions. <br /><br />If you think MP's are crooks I can assure you doctors, lawyers and accountants are one hundred times worse. Please never trust any of them, they are the most evil professionals in society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-41290682821252346342009-06-18T18:50:02.005+01:002009-06-18T18:50:02.005+01:00With the shit I have taken from doctors, lawyers a...With the shit I have taken from doctors, lawyers and now these MP's I am voting for the British National Party, give them a chance, because this lot are criminals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-5826298271187292472009-06-18T18:48:57.021+01:002009-06-18T18:48:57.021+01:00Aye I think I need new curtains too !
I wonder if...Aye I think I need new curtains too !<br /><br />I wonder if wee Eck can come along with me to pick them oot an charge the taxpayer too ?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com