tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post5276646389864649572..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: COMPARE THE JUDGES: MSPs call for US style transparency on judicial declarations as Minister fails to convince Holyrood committee that secretive & wealthy judges should be excluded from a register of interestsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24842314025963717272016-05-04T14:55:44.543+01:002016-05-04T14:55:44.543+01:00Judges should not be above the law.
If a register ...Judges should not be above the law.<br />If a register of interests is good enough for all MSP's then why not judges.<br />I fail to see how any MSP does not get this issue.<br />In any event the courts have the power to deal with any and all who would dare hassle them or cause them any undue distress.<br />It is a sham where they are afraid the public will see they are sitting on cases they ought not to be doing when for instance they have shares in companies.<br />Talking from experience I would have objected to judges hearing my appeal had I known one had prosecuted me or the other was my trial judges son.<br /><br />Big Wullie Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14622020677322097844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-80077159245887918252014-12-26T01:47:02.014+00:002014-12-26T01:47:02.014+00:00Ya de yah de yah...
If Wheelhouse has shown that...Ya de yah de yah...<br /><br /><br />If Wheelhouse has shown that he is not part of the solution, then he is part of the problem!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-81198714542627766142014-12-24T12:01:26.367+00:002014-12-24T12:01:26.367+00:00 Anonymous said...
Watch MacAskill at about 42mins... Anonymous said...<br />Watch MacAskill at about 42mins to 43mins20seconds talking about judges and football!<br /><br />Not very rehearsed eh and the reply from Wheelhouse.Pathetic rehearsed banter trying to detract from the debate.<br /><br />At least the leader of the committee comes in to save the day after he realised what just happened because it is so obvious to anyone watching it MacAskill does not want this to go ahead and Wheelhouse is there fully compliant with lawyer Kenny always a lawyer<br /><br />23 December 2014 at 01:38<br />-----------------------------------------<br /><br />With any involvement of the Law Society of Scotland you can be sure there is criminality involved?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-55912671063226711002014-12-23T19:51:51.883+00:002014-12-23T19:51:51.883+00:00To the last comment - yes well pointed out also bu...To the last comment - yes well pointed out also buckfast sounds/looks as if he is well over the limit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39328950726273419922014-12-23T17:11:29.521+00:002014-12-23T17:11:29.521+00:00When a corrupt rotten politician begins to talk yo...When a corrupt rotten politician begins to talk you can hear it shine through no matter how hard they try to disguise it,same goes for these no show judges who are not showing because they are rotten to the core.Nothing to hide?then show up.Something to hide?They write nasty letters and dont appear in public to back up their threats etcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38864747966714617602014-12-23T01:38:38.669+00:002014-12-23T01:38:38.669+00:00Watch MacAskill at about 42mins to 43mins20seconds...Watch MacAskill at about 42mins to 43mins20seconds talking about judges and football!<br /><br />Not very rehearsed eh and the reply from Wheelhouse.Pathetic rehearsed banter trying to detract from the debate.<br /><br />At least the leader of the committee comes in to save the day after he realised what just happened because it is so obvious to anyone watching it MacAskill does not want this to go ahead and Wheelhouse is there fully compliant with lawyer Kenny always a lawyerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54042270205083363722014-12-23T01:03:19.172+00:002014-12-23T01:03:19.172+00:00Not a very good performance from Wheelhouse who ha...Not a very good performance from Wheelhouse who happens to be my msp!<br />Why is he protecting judges and trying to keep their money and stuff a secret?<br />Dont agree with him at all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-3038111133631742982014-12-23T00:30:42.452+00:002014-12-23T00:30:42.452+00:00These Scottish gaggle of nincompoops are hilarious...These Scottish gaggle of nincompoops are hilarious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39372891075305991862014-12-22T21:53:36.666+00:002014-12-22T21:53:36.666+00:00If MacAskill is so hot on criticising the selectio...If MacAskill is so hot on criticising the selection of judges in the USA he should go across and give them an explanation of how its done here and then take questions!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38088228050284576302014-12-22T21:51:34.960+00:002014-12-22T21:51:34.960+00:00Anonymous said...
Another one here with no recuse...Anonymous said...<br /><br />Another one here with no recused. My solicitor pointed out to the advocate the judge has a conflict of interest. The advocate refused to ask the judge to recused. Outside the court my solicitor told me the advocate threatened to withdraw from representing me if asked again to ask the judge. Solicitor said the conflict involving a bank is important and must be reported also he said the judge was told about what happened and he thought the judge knew what was going on as he turned very nasty with my advocate and us after my solicitor passed him the paper in court. I have not named the judge or anyone so please publish the comment.<br />=========================================================================<br />Please do not think I am being negative but there is no complaints system. By all means try it but report back when you get nowhere. Many have tried including myself only to find the revolting fact that they are a crooked cartel who want to appear to be honest and decent upstanding members of society when they are really professional criminals. The Judges and Lawyers and their so called professional unions are bought and paid for by big business. They know where their bread is secretly buttered and help themselves to Legal Aid too as a freeby from the taxpayer. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-1299859087171821432014-12-21T21:33:28.388+00:002014-12-21T21:33:28.388+00:00Another one here with no recused.My solicitor poin...Another one here with no recused.My solicitor pointed out to the advocate the judge has a conflict of interest.<br />The advocate refused to ask the judge to recused.Outside the court my solicitor told me the advocate threatened to withdraw from representing me if asked again to ask the judge.solicitor said the conflict involving a bank is important and must be reported also he said the judge was told about what happened and he thought the judge knew what was going on as he turned very nasty with my advocate and us after my solicitor passed him the paper in court.I have not named the judge or anyone so please publish the comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-82603437537326214792014-12-21T16:20:35.005+00:002014-12-21T16:20:35.005+00:00Another fix on the justice system being put out by...Another fix on the justice system being put out by the courts is the idea of pre recorded evidence ... allegedly to enable trials to go faster.<br /><br />However, with the quality and honesty of witnesses in Scottish courts deteriorating almost on a weekly basis, while prosecutors cherry pick what evidence they want to present and leave out this will only cause further injustice.<br /><br />@ 21 December 2014 at 11:21<br />__________________________________<br /><br />I am glad you have drawn this distinction, which shows just how perceptive you are?<br /><br />Through the excellent and insightful Diary of Injustice in Scotland, we now know that our Justice System has failed, is broken beyond repair and is being run as a closed shop for people who's vested interests are for their own cash enrichment rather than to comply with the law?<br /><br />This latest gambit, to allow an already crooked lot to be allowed to have witness testimony taken at an early stage, is a cynical ploy to allow the Crown and the Defence lawyers to 'cut deals' between them as to what the outcome should be for their joint benefit?<br /><br />Similarly too for a commercial case, where the deal cutting looks like it is being given the green light?<br /><br />This would have ZERO bearing on the speed of the court system and is a complete red-herring?<br /><br />It is the whole Scottish System that is diseased and until we come up with a radical new system, which focuses on what is right for the two parties in a dispute rather than the 'court players', who are all Scottish lawyers, the status quo is selling the people of Scotland down the river?<br /><br />55% of all prosecutable cases (i.e. having been investigated by the police, been reported to the Proc Fiscal and the Proc Fiscal recommending the case for prosecution based on the good prospects of a successful prosecution) in Scotland are 'Sifted Out'?<br /><br />Sifting Out means, all of the cases that are against Scottish lawyers, the Law Society of Scotland and their friends are all thrown in the bin, to get these people off Scot Free?<br /><br />Thereafter, the majority of the rape cases, child abuse cases, cases against people they have the chance to save from prosecution for favours in return and complicated expensive cases are thrown in the same bin?<br /><br />This leaves a few cases 45% of the total that are easy, straightforward cases and especially cases where they can generate a headline to make them look good, like concentrating on 'money cases' whereupon they go after bank accounts of free cash, which is loosely recorded and sloshing around so various can dip into them when it suits them to do so?<br /><br />Anything that these creeps suggest as an improvement is tantamount to them taking the mickey and laughing at the Scottish People for believing such tosh?<br /><br />The status quo want to keep things exactly as they are thank you very much, so that they can all pass GO and all collect £200?<br /><br />Scotland's corrupt Monopoly Game?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-72297123587936074712014-12-21T14:36:55.277+00:002014-12-21T14:36:55.277+00:00@ 20 December 2014 at 19:58
When Press Releases e...@ 20 December 2014 at 19:58<br /><br />When Press Releases end up being read out as news items ... viewers with an interest in the subject eventually turn to other sources of information ...<br /><br />@ 20 December 2014 at 22:28<br /><br />Justice by PR. Any anniversary is jumped on by politicians, prosecutors and judges to justify their role in any case or law no matter how many questions there are about it.<br /><br />Another fix on the justice system being put out by the courts is the idea of pre recorded evidence ... allegedly to enable trials to go faster.<br /><br />However, with the quality and honesty of witnesses in Scottish courts deteriorating almost on a weekly basis, while prosecutors cherry pick what evidence they want to present and leave out this will only cause further injustice.<br /><br />@ 21 December 2014 at 11:21<br /><br />Like Bankers praising Bankers, people with a vested legal interest speak up for people with a vested legal interest ... It is not rocket science.<br /><br />Mr MacAskill signed off on all letters from the Scottish Government refusing to back the petition, he did not even speak for the Scottish Government during the Parliamentary debate in October, and he refused an invitation to give evidence at the Petitions Committee when he was still Cabinet Secretary for Justice.<br /><br />The public debate on judges, their accountability, their interests, and the petition, goes on ...Diary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-55700436265342289402014-12-21T11:21:14.213+00:002014-12-21T11:21:14.213+00:00There must be some very rotten corrupt filthy peop...There must be some very rotten corrupt filthy people going about to replace Mr Brodie on the committee with a politician who was sacked and has such a bad reputation like MacAskill and his contribution to the debate was miserable.<br /><br />And now I have read some more of your other posts he should have "recused" himself from having anything to do with your petition since he wrote letters on behalf of the judge who opposes it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54287899352923908252014-12-21T01:26:35.810+00:002014-12-21T01:26:35.810+00:00 Anonymous said...
A friend who works as a clerk i... Anonymous said...<br />A friend who works as a clerk in a sheriff court tells me the sheriff often meet up with lawyers to discuss cases before they even appeared in the court and then have to act surprised as if he never heard about it before<br /><br />19 December 2014 at 10:11<br />#####################%#%%%<br /><br />I can tell you better than that, when I was up against the Law Society of Scotland as a Party Litigant, my opposition Advocate came out of the Judges Chambers along with the Judge and said, the Judge is on his way and you are really going to get it now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-60016261481430287982014-12-20T22:28:37.887+00:002014-12-20T22:28:37.887+00:00Just like The Lord Advocate Mullholland's barm...Just like The Lord Advocate Mullholland's barmy comments today, these believers in fiction about the fitness of purpose of the Scottish Judicial and Prosecutorial System are fast becoming the unwitting comedians at their own expense, as the Scottish Public know when they are being taken as fools by fools and know when they are being lied to?<br /><br />To say that the only place for the truth to be resolved is in a Scottish court is one of the best one liners ever, worthy of winning any Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival Awards, such is the absurdness of the statement and it being voted King of oxymorons ever to be uttered?<br /><br />I wonder if we are observing a very public insanity or whether these liars are being deliberately obtuse through years of habit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61783769249998057052014-12-20T19:58:27.621+00:002014-12-20T19:58:27.621+00:00worth a comment - ex bbc employee today having a l...worth a comment - ex bbc employee today having a laugh at bbcscot colleagues brought in by Lord Advocate desperate to talk up justice/courts successes.turns out beeb hacks told to comply and told to watch levels of praise for nats justice policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24267747563184163132014-12-20T14:44:45.066+00:002014-12-20T14:44:45.066+00:00Just as the head of the committee says - not much ...Just as the head of the committee says - not much of an argument to keep the judges interests secret.<br /><br />There must be a lot of corruption in the judiciary going on when judges can defy the same laws everyone else has to obey.Easy to reach this conclusion with the way they reacted to being asked about their own interests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61886015220069024612014-12-19T17:47:09.059+00:002014-12-19T17:47:09.059+00:00Mr Wheelhouse - another of the politicians who get...Mr Wheelhouse - another of the politicians who get their civil serpents to write back and say nothing can be done go bother a public body instead of us.<br /><br />Keep up the good work Peter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-21582961070855905772014-12-19T10:11:52.005+00:002014-12-19T10:11:52.005+00:00A friend who works as a clerk in a sheriff court t...A friend who works as a clerk in a sheriff court tells me the sheriff often meet up with lawyers to discuss cases before they even appeared in the court and then have to act surprised as if he never heard about it beforeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-40309312789202756202014-12-18T23:07:57.123+00:002014-12-18T23:07:57.123+00:00jaw dropping blogjaw dropping blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86862193127539097792014-12-18T20:20:51.244+00:002014-12-18T20:20:51.244+00:00Who judges the judges? - well this is the problem ...Who judges the judges? - well this is the problem as the answer currently is the JUDGES judge the judges!<br /><br />Has to stop and all this nonsense about judicial independence whenever they are asked about their own affairs is just another threat tactic to avoid scrutiny.<br /><br />As others are saying already make this petition into a law and require the judges to declare otherwise they cannot be judges if they are more concerned with hiding their own interests than delivering justice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-67652634595850734762014-12-18T15:52:46.594+00:002014-12-18T15:52:46.594+00:00What is all this nonsense talked by Mr. Wheelhouse...What is all this nonsense talked by Mr. Wheelhouse about there being no no evidence the voluntary recusal system is not working. <br /><br />DOI reported on s spectsculsr exsmple of failure at;<br /><br />http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=willie+beck<br /><br />This was also covered in the mainstream press, then there was the evidenc of the Judicial Complaints Reviewer informing the Committee of complaints she had received about such failures.<br /><br />Either Mr. Wheelhouse hasn't done his homework or he is deliberately relying on a stubborn ignorance of the facts to protect the wholly unsatisfactory status quo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39917256417073064072014-12-18T15:35:05.809+00:002014-12-18T15:35:05.809+00:00Who is next to be invoked by Lord Gill to decimate...Who is next to be invoked by Lord Gill to decimate transparency and the Scottish Parliament? God himself perhaps?<br /><br />What an old fool of a judge choosing to wage a ware against openness and the people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-55181916714633341262014-12-18T13:51:17.655+00:002014-12-18T13:51:17.655+00:00Yes very good showing you had last week in the med...Yes very good showing you had last week in the media.I hope you checked out what I wrote about Paul Wheelhouse and Qatar because we may end up doing the story after all now he has been outed on your petition as another anti media type.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com