The Justice Diaries

Independent Law journalists report on legal news for consumers, litigants & Scotland's legal community including features on justice, access to justice, law reform, the judiciary, politics & in-depth investigations, analysis and commentaries on legal related issues.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Solicitors target clients with ‘sky high’ legal fees as Scotland's billion pound legal industry slows down

There is little doubt we are in a recession, and amid falling house prices, falling pay packets, rising energy bills and rising unemployment...

Friday, July 25, 2008

Rebranding fails to raise client trust in lawyers as poor standards & negligence dominate Scots legal sector

Imagine you needed a heart operation and you were just about to 'go under the knife' when you found out the surgeon had killed every...

Monday, July 21, 2008

Consumer protection weakened by lawyers FOI exemption while new Legal Complaints Commission must comply to information laws

For ever and a day, the Law Society of Scotland has been exempt from any law which would or could have helped clients who were or who are st...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Lawyers retreat on complaints changes as Law Society attempt more subtle control of 'closed shop' regulation

After my earlier article featuring correspondence from the Scottish Consumer Council to the Law Society of Scotland on the subject of the la...

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