tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post7573972868332977578..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: THEY WANT YOUR CASH : Scotland has highest legal aid budget in EU, yet lawyers chant “save justice” and strike to demand more for them, less for youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-52052803150800029462012-12-19T12:13:57.571+00:002012-12-19T12:13:57.571+00:00One of those in the picture has been in trouble wi...One of those in the picture has been in trouble with the Law Society but I wont mention his name suffice to say he should not be allowed anywhere near public fundsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-58638244282688521352012-12-10T16:40:45.925+00:002012-12-10T16:40:45.925+00:00I think you will find that his ideal client would ...I think you will find that his ideal client would be a wee old lady who had lost her faculties and who had a large bank balance......?<br /><br />Rich pickings, easy pickings from the vulnerable?<br />============================== <br />Yes she is their prey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33468775072971957952012-12-10T15:15:22.216+00:002012-12-10T15:15:22.216+00:00I think you will find that his ideal client would ...<br />I think you will find that his ideal client would be a wee old lady who had lost her faculties and who had a large bank balance......?<br /><br />Rich pickings, easy pickings from the vulnerable?<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Because the Law Society's system is set up in a deliberate way so that the CAN?<br /><br />i.e. there is no disincentive or repercussions for a Scottish lawyer not to act unlawfully with impunity? <br />#################################<br />Yes indeed the Law Society of Scotland is the centre of a poisonous spider and its legs are all the Law Firms who separate the public into two groups. The people who are no threat to lawyer's can secure [dodgy] legal representation and the people they have ruined who cannot get legal representation. THIS MEANS NO ONE IS SAFE.<br /><br />Self regulation is simply organised crime. Law Society gangsters don't need weapons to underpin their power base. Their formidable silent hidden weapon is secrecy, lawyer judging lawyer means no member of the public is safe.<br /><br />No public courts for corrupt lawyers like Penman. Oh no just the private mendacious Law Society to save his career like all the other corrupt filth that is the Scottish Legal Profession, secret, unaccountable and utterly corrupt.<br /><br />Never trust a lawyer, they have designed the perfect system to ruin you, throw you aside and look for another potential victim.<br />The Law Society Private Court, SSDT, SLCC ave there to protect only lawyers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-35528340625867413332012-12-10T15:05:10.470+00:002012-12-10T15:05:10.470+00:00I know someone who was in receipt of legal aid but...I know someone who was in receipt of legal aid but their lawyer demanded that their home was sold from beneath them making them homeless, so that this persons lawyer could give £40,000 to the OPPOSITION and take £40,000 in legal fees (remember this person HAD legal aid in place)?<br /><br />It turned out that this set of circumstances was negotiated behind this persons back by their own lawyer and the Law Society's lawyer in a bold attempt to defeat the ends of justice?<br /><br />Yes, you have guessed it..........THE OPPOSITION was a well known crooked Scottish lawyer?<br /><br />They could do this because this member of the public has become an ENEMY OF THE STATE and that the police have been warned off to allow crimes perpetrated by the State to be perpetrated against this wholly innocent member of the Public?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-10912396915875648772012-12-10T14:51:09.709+00:002012-12-10T14:51:09.709+00:00Anonymous said...
Most trustworthy professions?
N...Anonymous said...<br />Most trustworthy professions?<br /><br />Nurses 82%<br />Doctors 80%<br />Teachers 69%<br />Lawyers 35%<br />Estate agents 11%<br />Bankers 11%<br />Journalists 7%<br />Politicians 7%<br /><br />To the Law Society and SLCC. As Abraham Lincoln pointed out, "You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." <br /><br />The enlightened people who know what you are keep telling people never to trust lawyers. We are victims of lawyers determined to prevent others suffering the same fate.<br /><br />Don't change your ways for us. If the figures are accurate the 35% will be enlightened. It's time you mendacious people reaped your rotten harvest. God bless the DOI team for showing them for what they really are.<br /><br />9 December 2012 11:46<br />?????????????????????????????????????<br /><br />I have my doubts about where these statistics were compiled from, as in Scotland I am sure the figure would be in the low single figures for Scottish lawyers such is the consequence of their unlawful behaviour?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-74950476537615081282012-12-10T14:46:54.776+00:002012-12-10T14:46:54.776+00:00 Anonymous said...
Lawyers are getting illegal cas... Anonymous said...<br />Lawyers are getting illegal cash bungs from their clients, judges will be throwing ,cases too for cash bungs. Crown office too. The plot thickens.<br /><br />9 December 2012 11:09<br />...,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.<br /><br />I know for certain that at least in one case The Lord Advocate and a senior Crown Office Director were involved in deliberately refusing to prosecute a crooked Scottish lawyer with crime they knew that they committed, which would have resulted in certain jail for the crooked Scottish lawyer?<br /><br />However, they let this crooked Scottish lawyer off Scot Free and wilfully defeated the ends of justice to pursue their own unlawful conduct?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-70288845851907918232012-12-10T14:41:11.716+00:002012-12-10T14:41:11.716+00:00Anonymous said...
Had countless arguments with leg... Anonymous said...<br />Had countless arguments with legal aid about my case my lawyer demanding cash off me several times and then after I complained about him the legal aid board told me my solicitor had never applied for legal aid for me in the first place which I believe to be a complete lie as I signed all the forms and have a letter from legal aid telling me my application was being looked at.I've looked up my solicitor's firm on the legal aid website and they are getting a lot of money every year so this is some kind of racket going on between lawyers and the legal aid board I think to stop anyone finding out about the lawyers taking cash while also getting legal aid hope you can look into this please<br /><br />8 December 2012 18:37<br />/:/;/;-:/:/;/;/;-:/;/;-;/:/;-;-:/:-;-;/;-:-:/;-;-;/:/:;-;/;/:-://;/:/:<br /><br />It is not even an OPEN SECRET any more as they are robbing us blind with an ever increasing self righteous criminal intent because they know that they are ABOVE THE LAW and the Crown Office's refusal to prosecute the infamous 14 who were caught red handed by the SLAB as a sop because the SLAB staff thought that they were going to be rumbled over this fraud (because they had been reported to the Fraud Police) but the Crown Office rode to their rescue with the classic 'NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST' catch-all where they do not prosecute because if the SCOTTISH PUBLIC became aware of what is going on then the Scottish lawyers would be lynched and their sick stealing pay would be over?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-82209327208982653912012-12-10T12:25:47.674+00:002012-12-10T12:25:47.674+00:00I have a suggestion of how to identify a Scottish ...I have a suggestion of how to identify a Scottish crooked lawyer?<br /><br />They should all be made to wear a ten-gallon hat because like in the Western movies these were worn by notorious thieving bandits who were above the law?<br /><br />Thereby they will not be allowed to pretend any longer that they are members of society?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-73075199563741566132012-12-10T12:17:52.343+00:002012-12-10T12:17:52.343+00:00Given how corrupt the self regulation system is in...Given how corrupt the self regulation system is in Scotland, just how many Scottish lawyers are NOT crooked?<br /><br />A) 1 in 10,000 (as the Law Society of Scotland, their SSDT, their SLCC and the Crown Office would have you believe)<br /><br />B) 1 in 1,000<br /><br />C) 1 in 100<br /><br />D) 1 in 10 <br /><br />E) 1 in 5<br /><br />F) 1 in 3<br /><br />G) 1 in 2<br /><br />H) ALL OF THEM<br /><br /><br /><br />Answers on a postcard please to:<br /><br />Gravy House,<br />4, Heavens Sake<br />Fill Your Boots Lane<br />Stealing<br />ST33 LNG<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24309110895610470442012-12-10T12:00:05.586+00:002012-12-10T12:00:05.586+00:00Anonymous said...
me too I was told to hand over £... Anonymous said...<br />me too I was told to hand over £1,700 (while getting legal aid)otherwise my lawyer said he would cease to represent me and make sure I couldn't get another lawyer.<br /><br />7 December 2012 15:54<br />======================================<br /><br />EXTORTION<br /><br />THEFT<br /><br />REPORT TO POLICE ASAPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22923521048196205822012-12-10T11:35:50.704+00:002012-12-10T11:35:50.704+00:00Just to make sure I've got this right......
...Just to make sure I've got this right......<br /><br /><br />We have too many Scottish crooked lawyers?<br /><br />We have the most corrupt self regulation of our lawyers?<br /><br />They demand the highest pay in the whole of Europe?<br /><br />For the worst figures of successful prosecutions?<br /><br />They freely steal from the State and when the Scottish Government attempt to stop the ever increasing SLAB fraud money slush fund, then these crooked Scottish lawyers go on strike?<br /><br />They are directly responsible for massive injustice and collusion to defeat justice in multiple numbers of infamous cases?<br /><br />Is it not time to rid Scotland of it's joke Scottish lawyers reign of terror over Scotland's People and rid the country of the evil Law Society of Scotland?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-59717810013814814282012-12-10T10:59:59.759+00:002012-12-10T10:59:59.759+00:00A point of order on the infamous Victorian Scottis...A point of order on the infamous Victorian Scottish Justice system (Georgian, Elizabethan, Tudor, the Dark Ages etc etc.....)?<br /><br />Since our completely broken Scottish Justice system gets worse by the day and lurches further and further back-in-time, would now be the right time to question what we should do with Scotland's crooked lawyers?<br /><br />Should they be put in stocks in the high street or be burnt at the stake?<br /><br />My personal favourite would be to hang, drawn and quarter them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-58408632947970742382012-12-10T04:25:13.299+00:002012-12-10T04:25:13.299+00:00This is theft (although the SLAB staff are complic...This is theft (although the SLAB staff are complicit to this crime by allowing it to happen)?<br /><br />Report your crooked Scottish lawyer to the POLICE as soon as possible and make sure the Police give you a CRIME NUMBER and NOT an incident number?<br /><br />This is crucial.<br /><br />Ask them to keep you updated as to the progress of their investigation bearing in mind that this is a prime facie case of theft?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-23503275292410878662012-12-10T04:19:02.525+00:002012-12-10T04:19:02.525+00:00"Their Law Society phone the legal aid board ..."Their Law Society phone the legal aid board to stop your legal aid when they want crooked lawyers protected."<br /><br />This is one of their most often practised ways they defeat the ends of justice?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-53767503665464458852012-12-10T04:15:55.533+00:002012-12-10T04:15:55.533+00:00Anonymous said...
This was emailed to me by a frie...Anonymous said...<br />This was emailed to me by a friend and just to say I too was asked for £500 contribution towards my criminal legal aid while my case was running but did not get a receipt and when I asked why I had to pay it my solicitor told me it is the law and blamed the SNP.My case was dropped by the crown and there was no real evidence against me other than the statement of a now retired Police Officer who never even attended the scene of the supposed incident.At the time I thought my solicitor was telling the truth but how can he have been now lawyers are striking about this contributions thing before it even comes into force?Suppose this happens to others and we are all getting conned into paying lawyers a cash sum not recorded?<br /><br />6 December 2012 21:07<br />--------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />This is a well practised Law Society of Scotland fraud?<br /><br />Double & Triple Billing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86228917895266436192012-12-10T04:10:39.233+00:002012-12-10T04:10:39.233+00:00Anonymous said...
Of 265,830 cases sent to the Cro... Anonymous said...<br />Of 265,830 cases sent to the Crown Office, only 41.7 per cent were brought to court. In England and Wales, 90.6 per cent of all cases resulted in court action.<br /><br />With sometimes well over £1000 in criminal legal aid being spent on each of those dropped cases there is a few million going out the window in easy pickings for lawyers on cases that will never get to court.<br /><br />Also starting to notice those comments about cases being dropped after people have been asked to make bung payments to lawyers who are also getting paid legal aid.Do the lawyers also have a deal with the Crown Office to drop these cases too?Seems to me they must know about this yet no charges for lawyers also breaking the law on legal aid payments?<br /><br />This bunch are corrupt all the way to the court!Wouldn't surprise me if I hear next that the judges are also in on it!<br /><br />6 December 2012 18:24<br />Sssssssscccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmm<br /><br />The Scottish Crown Office deliberately drop a high number of cases from being prosecuted so that within this number they can hide all of the cases being dropped on a nod and a wink and in order that they can protect their own (e.g. the infamous 14 sample crooked Scottish lawyers who were caught defrauding the Legal Aid fund) and other dodgy favours given?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-71907027175953057062012-12-10T04:02:55.083+00:002012-12-10T04:02:55.083+00:00Anonymous said...
Scottish legal aid row remains u... Anonymous said...<br />Scottish legal aid row remains unresolved.<br /><br />Derail the gravy train. End the Scottish Legal Aid rip off. 'Save justice' the most corrupt and expensive profligate waste of taxpayers money in Europe. Get over it Law Society. Five million Scots demand justice not robbery of their cash to finance Lafferty's mob. Not nice being on the receiving end of what you cherry pick as injustice.<br /><br />6 December 2012 10:04<br />:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;;:;:;:;:;::;:;:;<br /><br />If the Scottish striking scumbag lawyers were genuinely fighting for Justice and for the accused, then why don't they charge 50% less in fees to insure there is access to Justice for all?<br /><br />This would exemplify their point?<br /><br />Because they are lying scumbags who are only interesting in maintaining their ability to defraud the publicly funded Scottish Legal Aid Fund?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-76836609574707802012012-12-10T03:57:59.033+00:002012-12-10T03:57:59.033+00:00Anonymous said...
http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.u...Anonymous said...<br />http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/bbc-radio-scotland-debate-on-legal.html<br /><br />A recap on Lafferty the man who wants to rob old ladies.<br /><br />Peter wrote I think, probably for me, the quote of the show came from Austin Lafferty - who said - his ideal client would be an old lady who came along to sell her house for £100,000 or something like that ... of course .. Garry Robertson quickly picked up on Lafferty's comment which sounded ..... shall we say .. stupid ? HE AINT BRIGHT I thought ... along with, probably the whole audience, sure - an old lady with £100,000 to a Scottish lawyer must seem like an easy target .... and I can understand why then, he came up with such a thing .... because certainly from my own experience in the Borders - there has been many an old lady robbed by Scottish lawyers - while they were alive, and certainly after they died ... so, yes, a great quote to sum up the Scottish legal profession - let's rip off the old people ! - after all - he said it ! - the famous Austin Lafferty !<br /><br />To quote from a great TV comedy "what a plonker' Austin, top dipstick at the Law Society of Scotland. Bright guy eh??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????<br /><br />5 December 2012 22:16<br />;/;/;/;-:/;/;/?/(-;/:-:/;/(/(/(/;-:-:/:/;/(/(-(-;-;/:/:/;--;/;:(/((-;/;:;<br /><br />I think you will find that his ideal client would be a wee old lady who had lost her faculties and who had a large bank balance......?<br /><br />Rich pickings, easy pickings from the vulnerable?<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Because the Law Society's system is set up in a deliberate way so that the CAN?<br /><br />i.e. there is no disincentive or repercussions for a Scottish lawyer not to act unlawfully with impunity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-41680490829307984632012-12-10T03:47:35.046+00:002012-12-10T03:47:35.046+00:00Anonymous said...
Dickhead MacAskill again
'T... Anonymous said...<br />Dickhead MacAskill again<br /><br />'There are safeguards in place. Complaints about all legal practitioners can be made to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission which is an independent body. Further, allegations of misconduct by solicitors may be heard by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal, another independent body'.<br /><br />he is a liar and <br /><br />http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Margaret%20McDougall<br /><br />Margaret will be out of politics like Mr Park soon or she will keep her job only if she shuts up about the Law Society Government of Scotland.<br /><br />MacAskill silence from you on Mr Gordon of Perth's torture by Kippen Campbell & the AIB. DOI are independent and the horrific truth is there for all to see.<br /><br />5 December 2012 12:11<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />Interesting.....<br /><br />Not a peep from Ms Margaret McDougall after the Law Society of Scotland read her the riot act?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-25472434763935472572012-12-09T20:35:07.980+00:002012-12-09T20:35:07.980+00:00I hear news of you telling people about lawyers di...I hear news of you telling people about lawyers dirty tricks and bungs is spreading around the legal profession and making certain scumbags very unhappy.<br /><br />Also the SLCC will not be pleased about this because they throw out anything to do with legal aid apparently and now people have something to quote about legal aid bungs and lawyers demanding cash on the side.<br /><br />Wonder if the taxman is rearing this (hope so)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-83756405217313158362012-12-09T14:17:06.461+00:002012-12-09T14:17:06.461+00:00Why should The Law Society stifle public criticism...Why should The Law Society stifle public criticism of allegedly shoddy lawyers by closing Solicitors From Hell? It is because nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity".<br /><br />The Law Society cannot bear discussion and publicity because its victims are warning others that lawyers are not a profession. They are a global organised crime gang. Their weapon of domination, lawyer policing lawyer, they have a lot of client destruction behind them they want silenced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63159172220905443552012-12-09T12:06:34.169+00:002012-12-09T12:06:34.169+00:00You want access to justice? Trust a lawyer and you...You want access to justice? Trust a lawyer and you will get access to hell, especially in the area of civil law. The Law Society and SLCC are not for complaints from clients. They were set up by lawyers for lawyers. They are access to safety for your lawyer to conceal his or her corruption from the public so they can look for their next victim.<br /><br />I got a text from a law firm. Have you been injured, all that usual bullshit, of concern for me. I replied don't trust lawyers.<br />They replied, your comment has been noted.<br /><br />To all of the motorists reading this blog, with the rise in the no win no fee lawyers I do not give take passengers in my car anymore. Only family. My sister's car was hit while she was in it in a supermarket car park. She was parked engine off<br />and a reversing motorist hit her vehicle. Impact speed perhaps one mile per hour. Her car had minor damage to paintwork. Later the no win no fee brigade wanted her to claim for personal injury when she was not injured. She said sue the lawyer who covered up my occupational injury. That killed that conversation, he hung up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18226170789325956722012-12-09T11:46:30.742+00:002012-12-09T11:46:30.742+00:00Most trustworthy professions?
Nurses 82%
Doctors ...Most trustworthy professions?<br /><br />Nurses 82%<br />Doctors 80%<br />Teachers 69%<br />Lawyers 35%<br />Estate agents 11%<br />Bankers 11%<br />Journalists 7%<br />Politicians 7%<br /><br />To the Law Society and SLCC. As Abraham Lincoln pointed out, "You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." <br /><br />The enlightened people who know what you are keep telling people never to trust lawyers. We are victims of lawyers determined to prevent others suffering the same fate.<br /><br />Don't change your ways for us. If the figures are accurate the 35% will be enlightened. It's time you mendacious people reaped your rotten harvest. God bless the DOI team for showing them for what they really are.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-56473599941569169442012-12-09T11:31:26.057+00:002012-12-09T11:31:26.057+00:00Austin Lafferty - who said - his ideal client woul...Austin Lafferty - who said - his ideal client would be an old lady who came along to sell her house for £100,000 or something like that ... of course .. Garry Robertson quickly picked up on Lafferty's comment which sounded ..... shall we say .. stupid ? HE AINT BRIGHT I thought ... along with, probably the whole audience, sure - an old lady with £100,000 to a Scottish lawyer must seem like an easy target.<br />###############################<br />And what did they do to him for wanting to rob old ladies? A reward.<br /><br />Gave him a top job in The Law Society of Scotland. Bright lot eh. People are wrong if they think those in the professions are smart. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-36347980575333734252012-12-09T11:09:43.086+00:002012-12-09T11:09:43.086+00:00Lawyers are getting illegal cash bungs from their ...Lawyers are getting illegal cash bungs from their clients, judges will be throwing ,cases too for cash bungs. Crown office too. The plot thickens. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com