tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post715705818820828300..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Scottish Government set to defy OFT over lawyers self regulation in legal services consultation as MacAskill demands Law Society powers 'be protected'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16659130839648289962009-02-06T13:46:00.000+00:002009-02-06T13:46:00.000+00:00I think you could be the legal world's answer to R...I think you could be the legal world's answer to Robert Peston !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-27508680553675948542009-02-05T12:49:00.000+00:002009-02-05T12:49:00.000+00:00I would add a comment simply to express my disgust...I would add a comment simply to express my disgust at the SNP for protecting lawyers but it seems everyone has said just about anything I could think of to say anyway.<BR/><BR/>Good luck and keep up the fight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-42839961425914987132009-02-04T17:49:00.000+00:002009-02-04T17:49:00.000+00:00The mind boggles on this to say the least.If the c...The mind boggles on this to say the least.<BR/><BR/>If the consultation is just that then why exclude an approach which probably everyone except only the legal profession wants ?<BR/><BR/>I have downloaded the paper and will send mine back completed of that opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-80139235252193664202009-02-04T16:17:00.000+00:002009-02-04T16:17:00.000+00:00Hopefully Captain MacBuckfast's wording will be co...Hopefully Captain MacBuckfast's wording will be corrected by someone less inclined to defend lawyers !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-51259812121434329312009-02-04T15:37:00.000+00:002009-02-04T15:37:00.000+00:00I am a solicitor myself, and I know many who would...I am a solicitor myself, and I know many who would be happy to be rid of the Law Society hanging over our backs.<BR/><BR/>Personally I think it was very unwise for Mr MacAskill to express his view like that in the consultation document.<BR/>I assume the Scottish Parliament will take a more impartial look at matters and hopefully come to a conclusion his proposal to allow the Law Society to remain as it is does not come to fruition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22830276146172366822009-02-04T14:25:00.000+00:002009-02-04T14:25:00.000+00:00despite the significance of the OFT's statement it...despite the significance of the OFT's statement it was buried on page 33 leaving it to Peter Cherbi to report because no one else can write about the law in Scotland these days without fear of the lawyers bawling them out<BR/><BR/>Good work Peter its a pity you don't have a newspaper column but I suppose because we have the advanced version of censorship in Scotland many people wont be able to follow what is really going on in the legal world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22632190572921859642009-02-04T14:01:00.000+00:002009-02-04T14:01:00.000+00:00Law Society gets its way as usual.Typical.Who gets...Law Society gets its way as usual.Typical.Who gets the fat brown envelope for all this ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-79671318538169097212009-02-04T12:14:00.000+00:002009-02-04T12:14:00.000+00:00Why bother with the consultation if he wants the ...Why bother with the consultation if he wants the Law Society to remain as regulator no matter who says what ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-84818123903529704052009-02-04T01:14:00.000+00:002009-02-04T01:14:00.000+00:00scary to think all this is going on and the damned...scary to think all this is going on and the damned newspapers cant do anything to let us know about it<BR/><BR/>hootsmon bought off too although thats not too difficult from what I hearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-28094314153879837692009-02-03T22:42:00.000+00:002009-02-03T22:42:00.000+00:00Screw Macaskill and his lawyer buddies and bring o...Screw Macaskill and his lawyer buddies and bring on the OFT now ! I for one would welcome our Westminster overlords if they are going to save us from these bloody lawyers !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-87101818912265789102009-02-03T22:23:00.000+00:002009-02-03T22:23:00.000+00:00http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7867022.stmsom...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7867022.stm<BR/><BR/>someone trying to fiddle the vote Peter - get on the case please with that good intel you always seem to have !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-21277237672385854772009-02-03T22:07:00.000+00:002009-02-03T22:07:00.000+00:00Well written Peter.I can imagine there will be a w...Well written Peter.I can imagine there will be a witch hunt now for your sources.<BR/>MacAskill will have to get in his Nasti team to waterboard all the Justice staff until he comes up with some answers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-65594741445879074592009-02-03T21:21:00.000+00:002009-02-03T21:21:00.000+00:00MacAskill has already been quite properly accused ...MacAskill has already been quite properly accused of prejudiced published opinions by a feloow MSP, and it is not difficult to see why.<BR/><BR/>Clearly his contemptuous dismissal of the OFT's position must now see it and Which - author of the Super-Complaint - report the Law Society of Scotland's monopoly to the Competition Commission as a matter of urgency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-79079475841033383082009-02-03T21:09:00.000+00:002009-02-03T21:09:00.000+00:00I don't really have any beefs against lawyers but ...I don't really have any beefs against lawyers but if the SNP choose a fight with Westminster to protect lawyers they are going to look like a right bunch of crooks don't you think ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-6965328007154629762009-02-03T20:27:00.000+00:002009-02-03T20:27:00.000+00:00This must be MacAskill's attempt to better Henry F...This must be MacAskill's attempt to better Henry Ford's "You can have any colour as long as its black" comment.<BR/><BR/>MacAskill's version : "You can have your consultation but no changes and bent lawyers get the usual protection because I might need to go back to being a lawyer when my political career is over"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63146834939554074062009-02-03T19:59:00.000+00:002009-02-03T19:59:00.000+00:00If the OFT are reading this they must be fuming or...If the OFT are reading this they must be fuming or thinking we are a bunch of lawyer loving idiots (which we are not)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-11235632649381530932009-02-03T19:12:00.000+00:002009-02-03T19:12:00.000+00:00Interesting story and comments !So who actually is...Interesting story and comments !<BR/><BR/>So who actually is running the Government these days in Scotland ? Alex Salmond or the Law Society + Kenny MacAskill ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18609061204596385012009-02-03T18:24:00.000+00:002009-02-03T18:24:00.000+00:00Neither do I believe it is the view of the entire ...Neither do I believe it is the view of the entire Scottish Government which is being shared in that 'consultation'.You know who wrote it don't you ?<BR/>Lawyers - that's who wrote it !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-44048352572648172852009-02-03T17:56:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:56:00.000+00:00I hope someone at Holyrood has the balls to questi...I hope someone at Holyrood has the balls to question this when it goes to whichever committee looks into it.<BR/><BR/>Just also want to say I agree with the OFT that the Law society should be left as a trade union and nothing more than itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-720296969591221422009-02-03T17:39:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:39:00.000+00:00Why would Kenny try to fit a condom on the Law Soc...Why would Kenny try to fit a condom on the Law Society anyway ? They are a self destructive bunch as you have proved time & again Mr Cherbi. I don't think too many people nowadays think of the Law Society as being anything other than crooked after your onslaught against them.<BR/>Keep it up you will do us all a favour if you get rid of itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45008106600268921742009-02-03T17:27:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:27:00.000+00:00I have been reading the consultation and it does s...I have been reading the consultation and it does seem skewed against any real reforms.<BR/><BR/>Maybe with your reports and exposes they might change their mind a bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38996651177568917442009-02-03T17:25:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:25:00.000+00:00asking for views from the public then telling us n...asking for views from the public then telling us nothing will change doesn't do much for confidence in MacBuckfast's management of the justice portfolio<BR/><BR/>why doesnt wee eck kick his lawyer arse out and put someone in who knows what they should be doing ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-60688658178825742032009-02-03T17:09:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:09:00.000+00:00“This is not actually the view of the entire Scott...“This is not actually the view of the entire Scottish Government as the wording in the consultation suggests, it is simply the view of Mr MacAskill, the Justice Secretary”.<BR/><BR/>Who said that ? They definitely have a point !<BR/><BR/>Why should it say "Scottish Government's view" if it only represents the view of one Minister ?<BR/><BR/>The whole thing stinks and just to protect lawyers again by the sounds of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-10348111707199364692009-02-03T17:00:00.000+00:002009-02-03T17:00:00.000+00:00So long as MacAskill remains in post (and Salmond ...So long as MacAskill remains in post (and Salmond is to blame for this lawyer-loving crook being at the helm of Scottish "Justice" of course) then there will be no end to self-regulation at the Star Chamber at Drumsheugh Gardens, Law Society HQ. That is the reality of the situation Peter.<BR/><BR/>Does no-one have any real dirt on that scumbag? ... who cares not a jot about those suffering injustice in Scotland today.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the Daily Record should really go to town on this impostor and expose him for the charlatan he really is once and for all ... for the sake of all those seeking justice in Scotland today ... for it will NEVER be found at that crook's (or the SNP's) door ... and that is a FACT.<BR/><BR/>Keep at 'em nonetheless Peter ... sterling job as always my friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54717189590149657142009-02-03T16:56:00.000+00:002009-02-03T16:56:00.000+00:00Wow Peter.I liked the comment about Kenny MacAskil...Wow Peter.I liked the comment about Kenny MacAskill giving the Law Society a condom !<BR/><BR/>You should have had that one as the headline !<BR/><BR/>Keep up the great work !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com