tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post6105095382099558332..comments2024-03-29T12:58:06.213+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: 'McKenzie Friend' proposal to Parliament seeks to end 39 years of lawyers monopoly over Scots access to justiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-70326354088686073332009-05-05T21:24:00.000+01:002009-05-05T21:24:00.000+01:00Did you know British Lawyers can beat the world at...Did you know British Lawyers can beat the world at playing ping- pong. They don'y play on a table, they don't use a bat and ball, they use letters, typed letters, the rules of the this fraud game are: You send me a letter, and I'll send you two letters, maybe 3 in return. My first letter will thank you for your letter, it will state that I will have to speak to my client about it's contents and will revert back to you. The game then starts. Properly played it can go on for months and if Legal Aids involved for years. I've seen Solicitors office floors with files of letters 2 feet thick. And each letter might cost £150 to £350.00 each. So some trusting mug [a client in proper circles] is going to get slapped with a bill for £50000-00 over a simple fence boundary dispute? See Daily Mail - Mrs XYZ £110k legal fees over fence dispute. In Stockton on Tees, there is a family of three brother/s, all lowlifes, drunks, thieves and yobbos. If they are arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, they plead not guilty, run to a Solicitor and another round of ping-pong letters starts in the Magistrate court. The youngest yobbo is now 52, and worth over a million pounds to this firm of well known firm of Solicitors in defence fees. So they don't object to bunging him £20-00, now and then. It's called a retainer. And as for the Solicitors Complaints Bureau in Leamington Spa, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.FAIIRPLAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057410466151320733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-82639802584217906062009-05-04T14:59:00.000+01:002009-05-04T14:59:00.000+01:00FAIRPLAY YOU SAID
"Last word Solicitors switchboa...FAIRPLAY YOU SAID<br /><br />"Last word Solicitors switchboard operators screen [kill] 75% of the calls made to them for legal advice, you've seen the adverts first 30 minutes free, mention that your a labourer, a factory cleaner, or living in Deadend Street, West Hartlepool, and no ones available to take your call. Did you know the EEC say McKenzie Friends must be allowed and encouraged".<br />-----------------------------------<br />Correct they love money, not clients, well said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24000728165554015992009-05-01T17:20:00.000+01:002009-05-01T17:20:00.000+01:00Here's an Expose. If your like me you sort of trus...Here's an Expose. If your like me you sort of trust people, reckon you can taker care of yourself, and you have the impression Solicitors are like priests, vicars and bank managers. Here's the nitty-gritty, a lawyer wants 10% of your estate when you die, if you've got a house worth £250000K, he wants £25000K for selling it for you, and he's not exactly keen on mentioning he paid an Estate Agent another 2.5% for being the the actual seller. Lets say you've got £100 000k in cash in the bank, well for passing it over Solicitors want the normal fee, then a **success fee of 5% for doing a good job**. My daughters was a probate lawyer for a large firm and their bills make her cringe.So wave the welcome flag on McKenzie Friends being allowed in Scotland. My wifes elderly Glasgow aunt was 1930s conditioned to be frugal, saved her money, a lawyer got £17500,00 [Seventeen, thousand, five hundred pounds] to administer her 3 bed - semi estate. She was dead and couldn't exactly complain, he got this money because she thought he was a gentleman, a rogue would have been a lot cheaper? Say Yes to McKenzie Friends. And do a google-search on Success Fees payable to Probate Solicitors?FAIIRPLAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057410466151320733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-8778036030080097972009-04-30T20:30:00.000+01:002009-04-30T20:30:00.000+01:00McKenzie Friends: What most people don't know is S...McKenzie Friends: What most people don't know is Solicitors DO NOT want to represent them? Its a caste run profession and your ability to get a good lawyer handling your case is relative to who you are and how wealthy you are. Whilst your busy explaining your case to a lawyer, he's studying you closely and trying to second guess how much you'll pay him, how readily you'll pay up, and of course he's very very interested in your philosophy about paying your bills on time, meaning his / her bills. Pass this hurdle and you might make it to the High Court, better still go to appeal. You see layers know your 65% of their clients will never come back, they know charging £180.00 per hour / £250 in London is a bit of a liberty, and as for McKenzie Friends - let them have the dross, the workshy, the poor huddled masses yearnig to escape from their clutches. Last word Solicitors switchboard operators screen [kill] 75% of the calls made to them for legal advice, you've seen the adverts first 30 minutes free, mention that your a labourer, a factory cleaner, or living in Deadend Street, West Hartlepool, and no ones available to take your call. Did you know the EEC say McKenzie Friends must be allowed and encouraged.FAIIRPLAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057410466151320733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-77432693505579332009-04-29T23:29:00.000+01:002009-04-29T23:29:00.000+01:00Here is another one Peter.
Wednesday, 1st April, ...Here is another one Peter.<br /><br />Wednesday, 1st April, 2009 8:45am<br /><br />CROOKED LAWYER SCAMMED £90k<br />by Irvine Times Reporter<br /><br />A FORMER Irvine lawyer could be jailed after he scammed almost £90,000 from clients.<br /><br />William Pirie Rennie, of Beaufield Gardens, Kilmaurs was working as a solicitor at Rennie & Co in Irvine High Street when he embezzled the huge sum of money.<br /><br />The Times tracked Rennie down to his home this week, but the shamed solicitor refused to comment on his crime.<br /><br />The 56-year-old had originally been charged with embezzling £139,484 but he eventually pled guilty to a reduced sum of £87,349 at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week.<br /><br />Rennie carried out the scam between June 1, 2002 and September 9, 2004 at his Irvine office.<br /><br />Sentence was deferred at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court for background reports.<br /><br />See this week's Irvine Times for the full story.<br /><br />(Has he been reported to the Law Society, SLCC?) He must never be allowed to work as a lawyer again, that is how we need to proceed to clean up this filthy profession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-23280348667041472752009-04-29T16:01:00.000+01:002009-04-29T16:01:00.000+01:00# Anonymous @ 9.48am
A tip from an insider ...
A...# Anonymous @ 9.48am<br /><br />A tip from an insider ...<br /><br />All will be revealed in due course ...<br /><br /># Anonymous @ 11.23am<br /><br />It seems so, given only the Association of Commercial Attorneys have been granted rights of audience, on a 5 year restricted practising certificate for construction law only !<br /><br /># Anonymous @ 1.21pm<br /><br />I support calls for an investigation and explanations as to why Lord Hardie said what he did, and why Sections 25-29 were withheld from the public for some 17 years, however I think all things considered, while Lord Hardie put forward the notion to repeal Sections 25-29, he was probably just the tool used by the legal establishment to have their way.<br /><br /># Anonymous @ 1pm<br /><br />I agree.Diary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38657385858081664242009-04-29T13:00:00.000+01:002009-04-29T13:00:00.000+01:00As long as the litigant is competent enough in the...As long as the litigant is competent enough in their quest and the mckenzie friend knows his stuff I don't see why this shouldn't be allowed in Scotland.<br /><br />Keep up the good work Peter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-90187885279373431732009-04-28T18:31:00.000+01:002009-04-28T18:31:00.000+01:0039 years is a hell of a long time to keep people o...39 years is a hell of a long time to keep people out of a court.If the SNP don't change this we know whose side they are on (as if we don't already know !)<br /><br />Its all about money isn't it Alex ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45681275414300787562009-04-28T13:21:00.000+01:002009-04-28T13:21:00.000+01:00What right does a Lord Advocate have to suggest re...What right does a Lord Advocate have to suggest repealing laws allowing people to get into court ?<br /><br />Why has no one explained why Lord Hardie did that and what about all the people fighting to get access to a courtroom all these years and then finding out the law was held back from them ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22691154260529606082009-04-28T11:23:00.000+01:002009-04-28T11:23:00.000+01:00The letter from MacAskill to Swinney is hilarious ...The letter from MacAskill to Swinney is hilarious !<br /><br />Is this how they lie to each other in the SNP ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-53836465212995567092009-04-28T09:48:00.000+01:002009-04-28T09:48:00.000+01:00I am very concerned as to your last comment Peter....I am very concerned as to your last comment Peter.<br /><br />How did you find out the Law Society have 'interfered' in this petition ?<br /><br />It is not for the Law Society to dictate what happens at parliament surely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-47376024745171779592009-04-27T23:43:00.000+01:002009-04-27T23:43:00.000+01:00# Anonymous @ 5.55pm
Good for them.I was told ear...# Anonymous @ 5.55pm<br /><br />Good for them.I was told earlier this evening the Law Society have already 'interfered' in the matter so the petition's hearing on 5th May should prove an interesting one as to who stands up and shows their cards as supporters of the Law Society's monopoly over access to justice.Diary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45099976229348337152009-04-27T19:37:00.000+01:002009-04-27T19:37:00.000+01:00Excellent posting as ever Peter.
I will also supp...Excellent posting as ever Peter.<br /><br />I will also support the MF petition.<br /><br />Good luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-2182907122315593862009-04-27T17:58:00.000+01:002009-04-27T17:58:00.000+01:00One last point to the "Sophie Scholl" admirer.
If...One last point to the "Sophie Scholl" admirer.<br /><br />If you are set on seeking change why don't you get out there and protest about this kind of stuff ? <br />If you do want genuine reform that's the only way you will get it.<br /><br />THANK YOU I WILL. I AGREE WITH YOUR ADVICE.<br /><br />10:50 AMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66262466317137812842009-04-27T17:55:00.000+01:002009-04-27T17:55:00.000+01:00I hear the petitions lot are screaming blue murder...I hear the petitions lot are screaming blue murder over your story Peter<br /><br />Keep them on their toes !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-10428779513317706052009-04-27T15:11:00.000+01:002009-04-27T15:11:00.000+01:00Thanks for all your comments.
I would encourage a...Thanks for all your comments.<br /><br />I would encourage anyone reading this article to contact the Parliament's Petitions Committee in support of the McKenzie's Friend Petition.<br /><br />You can contact the Petitions Committee at :<br /><br />http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/contact.htm<br /><br />Clerk to the Committee: Fergus D Cochrane<br /><br />Assistant Clerk: Franck David <br /><br />Assistant Clerk: Jonathan Orr <br /><br />Administrative Support to the Committee: Eileen Martin <br />Contact: 0131 348 5982 <br />RNID Typetalk service: 18001 0131 34 85982 <br /><br />Fax: 0131 348 5088 <br />Email: petitions@scottish.parliament.ukDiary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31277344279556567912009-04-27T14:17:00.000+01:002009-04-27T14:17:00.000+01:00Good to see you get back to your core campaigns Pe...Good to see you get back to your core campaigns Peter.I was getting tired of reading about that sllc who we all suspected would be just as bad as the law society from the start.<br /><br />Keep up the good work and hope this petition makes some ground as it should !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-34527205359157211792009-04-27T13:36:00.000+01:002009-04-27T13:36:00.000+01:00How daft ! McKenzies in Scotland cant have a McKen...How daft ! McKenzies in Scotland cant have a McKenzie friend !<br />What is the ministerial excuse (lie) for not allowing this in Scots law ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18693655541413580752009-04-27T10:50:00.000+01:002009-04-27T10:50:00.000+01:00Admirable for raising the issue although I feel as...Admirable for raising the issue although I feel as others do you will be in for an uphill battle on this one Peter.<br /><br />Its still worth doing though and hopefully the fact it has been available in the rest of the country for years will force it through in Scotland.<br /><br />One last point to the "Sophie Scholl" admirer.<br /><br />If you are set on seeking change why don't you get out there and protest about this kind of stuff ? <br />If you do want genuine reform that's the only way you will get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-13776788853388147132009-04-26T22:36:00.000+01:002009-04-26T22:36:00.000+01:00Mr Cherbi
If any of you supporters want to know h...Mr Cherbi<br /><br />If any of you supporters want to know how important free speech is, please read the following and learn the terrible price some people have paid for free speech and freedom of expression.<br /><br />One day in 1942, copies of a leaflet entitled “The White Rose” suddenly appeared at the University of Munich. The leaflet contained an anonymous essay that said that the Nazi system had slowly imprisoned the German people and was now destroying them. The Nazi regime had turned evil. It was time, the essay said, for Germans to rise up and resist the tyranny of their own government. At the bottom of the essay, the following request appeared: “Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.” <br /><br />The leaflet caused a tremendous stir among the student body. It was the first time that internal dissent against the Nazi regime had surfaced in Germany. The essay had been secretly written and distributed by Hans Scholl and his friends. <br /><br />Another leaflet appeared soon afterward. And then another. And another. Ultimately, there were six leaflets published and distributed by Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends, four under the title “The White Rose” and two under the title “Leaflets of the Resistance.” Their publication took place periodically between 1942 and 1943, interrupted for a few months when Hans and his friends were temporarily sent to the Eastern Front to fight against the Russians. <br /><br />The members of The White Rose, of course, had to act cautiously. The Nazi regime maintained an iron grip over German society. Internal dissent was quickly and efficiently smashed by the Gestapo. Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends knew what would happen to them if they were caught. <br /><br />People began receiving copies of the leaflets in the mail. Students at the University of Hamburg began copying and distributing them. Copies began turning up in different parts of Germany and Austria. Moreover, as Hanser points out, the members of The White Rose did not limit themselves to leaflets. Graffiti began appearing in large letters on streets and buildings all over Munich: “Down with Hitler! . . . Hitler the Mass Murderer!” and “Freiheit! . . . Freiheit! . . . Freedom! . . . Freedom!” <br /><br />The Gestapo was driven into a frenzy. It knew that the authors were having to procure large quantities of paper, envelopes, and postage. It knew that they were using a duplicating machine. But despite the Gestapo's best efforts, it was unable to catch the perpetrators. <br /><br />One day, February 18, 1943, Hans' and Sophie's luck ran out. They were caught leaving pamphlets at the University of Munich and were arrested. A search disclosed evidence of Christoph Probst's participation, and he too was soon arrested. The three of them were indicted for treason. <br /><br />On February 22, four days after their arrest, their trial began. The presiding judge, Roland Freisler, chief justice of the People's Court of the Greater German Reich, had been sent from Berlin. Hanser writes: <br /><br />He conducted the trial as if the future of the Reich were indeed at stake. He roared denunciations of the accused as if he were not the judge but the prosecutor. He behaved alternately like an actor ranting through an overwritten role in an implausible melodrama and a Grand Inquisitor calling down eternal damnation on the heads of the three irredeemable heretics before him. . . . No witnesses were called, since the defendants had admitted everything. The proceedings consisted almost entirely of Roland Freisler's denunciation and abuse, punctuated from time to time by half-hearted offerings from the court-appointed defense attorneys, one of whom summed up his case with the observation, “I can only say fiat justitia. Let justice be done.” By which he meant: Let the accused get what they deserve. <br /><br />Freisler and the other accusers could not understand what had happened to these German youths. After all, they all came from nice German families. They all had attended German schools. They had been members of the Hitler Youth. How could they have turned out to be traitors? What had so twisted and warped their minds? <br /><br />Sophie Scholl shocked everyone in the courtroom when she remarked to Freisler: “Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare to express themselves as we did.” Later in the proceedings, she said to him: “You know the war is lost. Why don't you have the courage to face it?” <br /><br />In the middle of the trial, Robert and Magdalene Scholl tried to enter the courtroom. Magdalene said to the guard: “But I'm the mother of two of the accused.” The guard responded: “You should have brought them up better.” Robert Scholl forced his way into the courtroom and told the court that he was there to defend his children. He was seized and forcibly escorted outside. The entire courtroom heard him shout: “One day there will be another kind of justice! One day they will go down in history!” <br /><br />Robert Freisler pronounced his judgment on the three defendants: Guilty of treason. Their sentence: Death. <br /><br />They were escorted back to Stadelheim prison, where the guards permitted Hans and Sophie to have one last visit with their parents. Hans met with them first, and then Sophie. Hansen writes: <br /><br />His eyes were clear and steady and he showed no sign of dejection or despair. He thanked his parents again for the love and warmth they had given him and he asked them to convey his affection and regard to a number of friends, whom he named. Here, for a moment, tears threatened, and he turned away to spare his parents the pain of seeing them. Facing them again, his shoulders were back and he smiled. . . . <br /><br />Then a woman prison guard brought in Sophie. . . . Her mother tentatively offered her some candy, which Hans had declined. “Gladly,” said Sophie, taking it. “After all, I haven't had any lunch!” She, too, looked somehow smaller, as if drawn together, but her face was clear and her smile was fresh and unforced, with something in it that her parents read as triumph. “Sophie, Sophie,” her mother murmured, as if to herself. “To think you'll never be coming through the door again!” Sophie's smile was gentle. “Ah, Mother,” she said. “Those few little years. . . .” Sophie Scholl looked at her parents and was strong in her pride and certainty. “We took everything upon ourselves,” she said. “What we did will cause waves.” Her mother spoke again: “Sophie,” she said softly, “Remember Jesus.” “Yes,” replied Sophie earnestly, almost commandingly, “but you, too.” She left them, her parents, Robert and Magdalene Scholl, with her face still lit by the smile they loved so well and would never see again. She was perfectly composed as she was led away. Robert Mohr [a Gestapo official], who had come out to the prison on business of his own, saw her in her cell immediately afterwards, and she was crying. It was the first time Robert Mohr had seen her in tears, and she apologized. “I have just said good-bye to my parents,” she said. “You understand . . .” She had not cried before her parents. For them she had smiled. <br /><br />No relatives visited Christoph Probst. His wife, who had just had their third child, was in the hospital. Neither she nor any members of his family even knew that he was on trial or that he had been sentenced to death. While his faith in God had always been deep and unwavering, he had never committed to a certain faith. On the eve of his death, a Catholic priest admitted him into the church in articulo mortis, at the point of death. “Now,” he said, “my death will be easy and joyful.” <br /><br />That afternoon, the prison guards permitted Hans, Sophie, and Christoph to have one last visit together. Sophie was then led to the guillotine. One observer described her as she walked to her death: “Without turning a hair, without flinching.” Christoph Probst was next. Hans Scholl was last; just before he was beheaded, Hans cried out: “Long live freedom!” <br /><br />Unfortunately, they were not the last to die. The Gestapo's investigation was relentless. Later tried and executed were Alex Schmorell (age 25), Willi Graf (age 25), and Kurt Huber (age 49). Students at the University of Hamburg were either executed or sent to concentration camps. <br /><br />Today, every German knows the story of The White Rose. A square at the University of Munich is named after Hans and Sophie Scholl. And there are streets, squares, and schools all over Germany named for the members of The White Rose. The German movie The White Rose is now found in video stores in Germany and the United States. Richard Hansen sums up the story of The White Rose: <br /><br />In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented the “other” Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it. What they were and what they did would have been “other” in any society at any time. What they did transcended the easy division of good-German/bad-German and lifted them above the nationalism of time-bound events. Their actions made them enduring symbols of the struggle, universal and timeless, for the freedom of the human spirit wherever and whenever it is threatened. <br /><br />Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.<br /><br />How lucky we are that we do not live under a dictatorship, these people are famous, two of them medical students and Sophie a philosophy and biology student who dared to stand up to Hitler. How lucky we are and how important free speech and freedom of expression are. <br />Would the lawyers do the same to us if they could? <br />These young Germans showed the world, that there are people prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their beliefs. We are lucky because even though we detest lawyers their power is not the same as Hitler. How fortunate are we?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-27014902486762597852009-04-26T16:18:00.000+01:002009-04-26T16:18:00.000+01:00To me,at least from reading your blog,it looks as ...To me,at least from reading your blog,it looks as if there is a mechanism in Scotland in place to prevent any reforms of the legal profession or anything to do with people's access to representation taking place.<br /><br />Most worrying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86827330710885134302009-04-26T01:02:00.000+01:002009-04-26T01:02:00.000+01:00Margaret Thatcher was a formidable politician. She...Margaret Thatcher was a formidable politician. She lost touch with reality especially over the devastating effects of the community charge or poll tax. This tax was tried in Scotland before any other part of the United Kingdom. The riots in London later demonstrate that she had committed political suicide. <br />She would not listen to her ministers and her disrespectful treatment of Sir Geoffrey Howe, resulted in the devastating speech which triggered the leadership contest. <br />To some extent this is similar to the legal profession, but they are not elected. Too much power allows them to do what they want, and people are now saying enough is enough. Prior to devolution why did the other parts of the United Kingdon have the MacKenzie Friends and we did not? My intention here is not to cause offence but to ask the Scottish Parliament why they have not implemented this before? They clearly are a lawyer loving parliament.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22148640671006851302009-04-25T23:12:00.000+01:002009-04-25T23:12:00.000+01:00Mr Cherbi I noticed this today, from an earlier ar...Mr Cherbi I noticed this today, from an earlier article of yours.<br /><br />Scotsman Reporter and a great friend receives an OBE at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.<br /> <br />Taking a break from reporting on the viles of society, today, I would like to congratulate a great family friend and one of the best reporters I have ever met, Mr William Chisholm, Borders Reporter for the Scotsman Newspaper for over 30 years, for his award of an OBE from Her Majesty the Queen at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.<br /><br />Link to the awards ceremony here, from "The Scotsman" newspaper : http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=982172006<br /><br />For more than 30 years, William Chisholm has memorably covered both national and regional issues in Scotland, and also reported on my own experiences with the legal profession, as of course, I lived in Jedburgh, a small town in the Scottish Borders for many years.<br /><br />Mr Chisholm, best wishes to you.<br /><br />LONG LIVE JOURNALISM AND FREE SPEECH. SOME PEOPLE HAVE PAID A TERRIBLE PRICE FOR THEIR BELIEFS.<br /><br />I watched a film about Sophie Scholl, (Sophie Scholl--The Final Days). Her brother Hans and another member of The White Rose Group distributed anti Nazi leaflets after the fall of Stalingrad. They were executed by the Nazis, because they did not sing Hitler's song. <br />Martin Luther King said, "If you are not prepared to die for your beliefs, you are not fit to live. These people paid a terrible price for free speech, it is the most valuable of our rights, and a free press is vital to this process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66354875720112483182009-04-25T22:53:00.000+01:002009-04-25T22:53:00.000+01:00Responding to post @ 1:02PM. You said I was told t...Responding to post @ 1:02PM. You said I was told to read this because I cant get a lawyer.<br /><br />-----------------------------------<br /><br />I cannot get a lawyer either. There are many of us in this position. You must be a threat to the reputation of a lawyer. Please tell everyone you know as they may be next to be stung by these filthy people with their equally filthy coverup masters.<br />These self protecting criminals are ruthless, but their power is diminishing daily. I think we will have much resistance from the Scottish Parliament. Salmond would want a referendum on splitting the union tomorrow, but giving the Scots rights over the legal establishment, no chance. I watch him on television shouting about Scottish Independence. Free the Scots from the union he shouts, but he is silent on legal rights for ordinary Scots against crooked lawyers. Go on SNP, reject the MacKenzie Friend proposal on the 5th of May and prove that you are the enemy of the Scottish Electorate. Those who protect crooked lawyers have the same morals as them. <br />Mr Swinney stood up to Douglas Mill, it is a man with the qualities of Mr Swinney we need not the Salmonds of MacAskills of this world. There is a much chance of MacAskill going against the Law Society, SLCC as there would have been of Hitler allowing free speech. MacAskill went through university with other law students. The bonds formed there alone make him unfit for the position he currently holds. I look forward to the 5th of May.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-28211261155448235462009-04-25T21:16:00.000+01:002009-04-25T21:16:00.000+01:00A good enough idea but you will have to get around...A good enough idea but you will have to get around 39 years of judicial arrogance to allow Mckenzie friends into the Scottish courts.<br /><br />Judging by Mr MacAskill's letter to his own colleague and some other links I've read tonight leading back to your blog I think you are in for a hard slog on this one Peter.<br /><br />Keep us informed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com