Thursday, April 04, 2013

Jailed crook learns self regulation only protects genuine 'rogue solicitors', as ‘fake lawyer’ given 14 year sentence for fraud, deception & money laundering

One ‘fake’ lawyer jailed as serial ‘genuine’ crooked lawyers escape justice system. A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM that sends a fake lawyer convicted of fraud to jail for FOURTEEN YEARS yet allows genuine solicitors to escape criminal prosecutions for involvement in similar activities including multi million pound legal aid frauds, serial embezzlement of client funds, and almost unquantifiable client rip-offs per annum, can easily be said to be operating one law for the protection of its own, and another for outsiders.

This marked contrast of how ‘justice’ is applied to those in society who deceive the public has been brought into focus yet again with the conviction last week of fake lawyer Giovanni di Stefano on 25 charges including deception, fraud and money laundering between 2001 and 2011 at London's Southwark Crown Court. Di Stefano also pleaded guilty to another two counts of fraud and a further three counts were ordered to lie on file.

The court heard Di Stefano, who never qualified as a genuine solicitor yet had been passing himself off as a bona fide legal professional for years, and had been allowed to represent people in court on previous occasions, had regularly taken significant amounts of funds from clients, and then failed to proceed their cases.

The Daily Record newspaper reported Judge Alistair McCreath, the Recorder of Westminster noted there were many offences over significant periods of time.

The fact the victims, which included a disabled man seeking damages for the loss of an arm, were all "desperate and vulnerable" and faced losses which were not just financial but also included the "raising and dashing of false hope" were aggravating factors, the judge said.

He conned clients out of millions of pounds by setting himself up as a lawyer when he had no legal qualifications and was not registered to work as a lawyer in Italy or the UK. He used the Italian word "avvocato" on business cards, letterheads and identification documents to give clients - and the judiciary - the impression he was an advocate.

The judge told di Stefano: "I recognise that you did not actively seek out those whom you defrauded. They came to you. You did not approach them but there is more than one kind of predator.

"Some predators hunt down their victims, others lie in wait for them. Your victims in this case were all desperate people and people who, because of their desperation, were vulnerable."

The judge also noted that, while this case is about money, "it is also about something different and great - it is about the real distress you caused to so many people". “You had no regard for them nor for their anguish," he said. "Your only concern was to line your own pockets."

The harm that di Stefano inflicted was "in financial terms alone high", said the judge. The judge said di Stefano had "lied" to his victims about what he was capable of and who he was. His crimes were "planned and persistent" and some of his attempts to defend his behaviour in court amounted to "breathtaking cynicism", the judge noted.

Di Stefano, of North Stream, Marshside, Canterbury, Kent, was found guilty of nine counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, eight counts of fraud, three counts of acquiring criminal property, two counts of using a false instrument, one count of attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception, one count of obtaining property by deception and one count of using criminal property.

He also pleaded guilty to stealing £150,000 compensation that should have gone to a man who had lost an arm in a car crash. The money was due as part of an insurance policy but di Stefano had it paid in to his business account and "duly stole it". This was a "wicked" crime and is one which "stands in a league of its own", according to the judge.

The bogus lawyer also admitted defrauding engineer David Brown and his family of £160,000 including the £75,000 life savings of his partner's mother. This case also involved £20,000 costs which were not paid out. Due to the "utterly wrong" advice that di Stefano gave him - "to protect your own position" - he lost his home and his job.

Tricia Walsh Smith, a reality tv star and former client of di Stefano, caught out the fake lawyer on camera in a sting and took him to task over his actings on her own case. Ms Walsh Smith published a video of the encounter on the You Tube video sharing website, which was taken down after she was threatened by the judge with contempt of court proceedings for publishing the video, being told it could ruin di Stefano’s right to a fair hearing. The video footage has since been re-uploaded to You Tube, here : Conman Giovanni Di Stefano STUNG by Tricia Walsh Smith

While an English court sent di Stefano to jail for his crimes, much of what he did is highly reminiscent of the activities of increasing numbers of genuine, yet rogue solicitors throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK, who treat their clients in much the same way.

The now familiar tale of genuine solicitors making fanciful claims to their clients, claims which are never fulfilled after years of fees are taken from the desperate & vulnerable, solicitors who defraud clients of large sums of cash, property and other assets, and of course, not forgetting those solicitors who defraud the public purse of millions of pounds in fraudulently claimed legal aid fees, usually never result in a single criminal prosecution.

As the public are now increasingly aware, most ‘genuine’ solicitors who face complaints from clients about fraud, embezzlement and serial rip offs usually escape with a slap on the wrist and a pat on the back courtesy of institutions such as the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal and the Law Society of Scotland.

It should therefore not be forgotten that on all the available evidence of how genuine solicitors regulate themselves, it is a chilling fact that if di Stefano had been a genuine lawyer, the probability is he would not have been convicted of any crime whatsoever and just as in cases involving the likes of the notorious John G O’Donnell and hundreds of other ‘genuine’ solicitors who have toxic, yet secret complaints histories involving complicated frauds, embezzlement and negligence, clients would have received no return and no justice for their woes.

The Sunday Mail reports the latest on the Di Stefano case :

Fake lawyer Giovanni di Stefano claimed dad was murdered by British spies in bid to cheat justice

By Russell Findlay Sunday Mail 31 Mar 2013

FAKE lawyer Giovanni di Stefano claimed his dad was murdered by British spies in a bid to cheat justice. Former Dundee director Di Stefano, 57, made the claim during his trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court.

He said his dad – who died of natural causes in Italy on the day Saddam Hussein was executed in 2006 – was murdered with an ice pick. He claimed the killing was revenge for him being the dictator’s lawyer.

The officer whose seven-year investigation brought Di Stefano to justice was Detective Constable Jerry Walters of City of London Police.

DC Walters said: “There are no depths he wouldn’t have sunk to in order to get off. “He said the British security services had murdered his dad with an ice pick because of his own involvement with Hussein. “We discovered that his dad did die in Italy on that date but it was of natural causes. “It also emerged that Di Stefano only reported the murder allegation in Italy four days before his trial was due to start. “So he waited six years after his dad’s death then made a false allegation that he had been murdered to try and get off.”

Di Stefano was found guilty of 25 charges then admitted two more.

He claimed be a multi-millionaire “Devil’s advocate” who represented major criminals, dictators and terrorists including Osama bin Laden and Balkan warlord Arkan.

Four charges related to reality TV star Tricia Walsh-Smith, who was delighted to see him thrown behind bars. She said: “I think he was shocked. I think he believes he has special powers but he’s as mad as a hatter. “He seems to think he hasn’t done anything wrong and that he’s the victim.”

The fantasist even told Walsh-Smith that he had bedded Hollywood stars. She said: “He told me that he slept with Sharon Stone and then gave her the role in Basic Instinct. It was all fantasy. “When I met him in 2011, I was going bankrupt and he took everything I had left. He was incredibly plausible.”

Nine years ago, the Sunday Mail revealed that Di Stefano was accused of bankrolling Serb war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Di Stefano, of Canterbury, mounted a bid to buy Dundee FC but eventually quit Scotland.

48 comments:

Anonymous said...

You could not even begin to make this stuff up!

Imagine, this crook has been overtly acting as a lawyer in Scotland for around a decade and the Law Society of Scotland and the Crown Office do what?

Didley squat?

He is only dealt with when he goes to England, a far more honest jurisdiction?

It would not surprise me if the Law Society of Scotland awarded an 'in-house' award for it's own crooked lawyers, for the Scottish crooked lawyer who carried out the most dastardly crime against their client?

The Giovanni Di Stefano award for crookedness, the Law Society of Scotland's favourite award?

Anonymous said...

If the same standards were employed on Scotland's known crooked lawyers their combined jail sentences would be in excess of 1000 years?

Anonymous said...

Spot on.

If he was a member of the Law Society it would never have come to court and nobody would have known about it or got anything back.Come to think of it did any of the victims get anything back?Probably NOT!

Anonymous said...

He wouldnt have needed to admit to anything in Scotland if he were a lawyer - the Law Society ratbags would have gone all out to cover him up and make sure no one reported it in the news

Anonymous said...

aye while o'donnell is on the loose this guy gets sent down - make them all criminals and send them to the toughest jails not open prisons

Anonymous said...

As far as I am concerned anyone from the courts or who works there is a bit of a con merchant and you are right to point out there are plenty lawyers making all kinds of claims to their clients just to string them along for fees then do bugger all for them at the end of the day.

Lawyers should be banned from regulating each other and all of them banged up in jail for what they do to clients just like plenty others and this one got the 14 years.Good.Now put real lawyers in jail too for 14 years or more they deserve it

Anonymous said...

I hear John O'Donnell is taking tea with Slow Motion and chums at Drumsheugh Gardens :)

Anonymous said...

Your link to the "Conman Sting" video isn't working. You missed out the "s" from "https".

Anonymous said...

Oh well he should have joined the Law Society then.I'm sure they would have got along very well!

Anonymous said...

Sounds very much like a lawyer I know about in Glasgow who is never off the tv whining about how he helps everyone yet never mentioning what he earns..I'm sure you know exactly who I mean!

Anonymous said...

You make a very good point in your headline!

Anonymous said...

Doubtless our Scottish judges would have given him a medal and anyway he has been up here plenty and no one did anything about it not even the Law Society of Scotland so what gives?Why are the Crown Office not looking into Di Stefano's activities in Scotland?

Anonymous said...

Comedy Gold

Anonymous said...

The Law Society of Scotland have a long history of letting crooks passing themselves off as a lawyer to harm the public off Scot-Free?

Anonymous said...

What?No lengthy statement from the Law Society telling us how great they are and how they defended the title of "solicitor" from this crook?

Or perhaps they dont want to draw attention to the fact a real lawyer would never have seen the inside of a court nevermind a jail!

Anonymous said...

Well spotted, clearly there is NO HONOUR AMONG THIEVES

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

aye while o'donnell is on the loose this guy gets sent down - make them all criminals and send them to the toughest jails not open prisons

4 April 2013 18:28

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Anonymous said...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9976400/Judges-lead-sheltered-lives-warns-Britains-most-senior-female-judge.html

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Doubtless our Scottish judges would have given him a medal and anyway he has been up here plenty and no one did anything about it not even the Law Society of Scotland so what gives?Why are the Crown Office not looking into Di Stefano's activities in Scotland?

4 April 2013 23:26
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Probably for the same reasons that they let off the HBOS & Royal Bank of Scotland Chiefs Scot-Free because they look after their own pals and concentrate their vindictive attacks on victims of crooked Scottish lawyers?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I hear John O'Donnell is taking tea with Slow Motion and chums at Drumsheugh Gardens :)

4 April 2013 19:25
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I am sure it will be a very friendly chat where they wax lyrical about how they managed to collectively snub their noses at the law, rejoice in the misery they brought upon the client victims and then discussing where O'Donnell will be placed next, to allow him to continue his crimes against Society?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

The Law Society of Scotland have a long history of letting crooks passing themselves off as a lawyer to harm the public off Scot-Free?
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Yes indeed there is no complaints system. It is a myth, propaganda to fool people into believing the Law Society will protect client interests "in relation to the profession" as their web site states. Austin Laugherty [the spelling is intentional] knows save justice means save lawyers unlimited access to Legal Aid and and that the complaints system is a myth with every other lawyer in Scotland. Save Justice by prosecuting Drew Penman? He was let of because the complaints system is a lawyer protection racket.

Anonymous said...

What is it about the Law Society of Scotland letting multiple Italian residents, who pass themselves off as a lawyer, off Scot-Free to cause carnage?

Anonymous said...

Is it a surprise to anyone that a crook passing himself off as a lawyer would choose Scotland as his base for his evil trade against the innocent public?

No surprise either that the public hating Law Society of Scotland would conveniently turn a blind eye to this crook and to allow him to cause untold damage to the Scottish public?

Scotland would be a far safer and lawful place to reside if the police would be allowed to do the decent thing and protect the Scottish public by arresting the criminal staff members of the Law Society of Scotland?

They know who they are......?

Anonymous said...

The News on the Street is that the Law Society of Scotland got their Fixer Elaine Motion to do her research on Mr Di Stefano's criminal career and she reasoned that he WAS a lawyer in Scotland and therefore he was allowed to continue to fill-his-boots and commit crime willy nilly and that he should be allowed to do so with the full blessing of the Law Society of Scotland as is their practice with all other crooked Scottish lawyers?

Apparently, the fact that Mr Di Stefano had no insurance under the Master Policy and was not registered through the Law Society's Guarantee Fund was thought to be of No Consequence, as both of these facilities are just a paper exercise to satisfy legislation, knowing that neither of them EVER pay out money to victims of crooked Scottish lawyers?

Just the way they planned it?

Anonymous said...

How come the Scottish authorities let this guy off for years?

Anonymous said...

There is no doubt the Legal Profession are an organized crime gang. It is utterly debase, a ragtag of thieving scoundrels who are political because they have designed the perfect system for prosecuting people who are not lawyers and saving themselves from the same fate. How can a system like this possibly be about justice? Totally corrupt.

Anonymous said...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-22063456


Dundee benefit fraudster jailed for six months
Norman Lawson Norman Lawson falsely claimed for more than £14,000 in benefits

A Dundee man who claimed more than £14,000 in disability benefits while working as a painter and decorator has been jailed for six months.

Norman Lawson received £14,129.38 in incapacity benefit and disability living allowance despite working for more than six years.

The 52-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges under the Social Security Administration Act.

Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Lawson for six months.

Lawson had claimed higher rate mobility allowance, intended for those who cannot walk, and lower rate care allowance, meant for those who need help in the home.

The fraudster failed to tell benefits bosses that he had recovered from a previous injury, and started working as a self-employed contractor for Barry Greenhill Joiners and Contractors in October 2004.

Lawson was eventually caught after an anonymous tip off, and told investigators he saw the fraud as a way to make extra money when he got into financial difficulty.
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He should have been a lawyer, one of the fourteen where there was not enough admissible evidence to prosecute. Benefit or Legal Aid fraud illegal if you are not a lawyer. Legal Aid fraud, criminal records, benefit fraud Judges legal. Whether it is corrupt or not depends in your role in society. Salmond's Banana Republic.

Anonymous said...

Does it not speak volumes that this crook (an Italian) passing himself off as a lawyer, chose Scotland (out of the whole of Europe) as a crooked State to base himself to carry out his criminal empire, even to the extent of trying to purchase a Scottish football club and that the Scottish Press were more than happy to be complicit in his deceit by advertising that he was a lawyer in their papers?

Makes us a laughing stock for thinking that the Law Society of Scotland and the Crown Office give-a-hoot about the Scottish People, which they clearly don't?

Maybe we should contact the Trading Standards Office and get them to stop using false names and we could suggest more appropriate names befitting their unlawful conduct?

The Law Society of Crooks?

The Crook Office?

Anonymous said...

One ‘fake’ lawyer jailed as serial ‘genuine’ crooked lawyers escape justice system.

This story about the fake lawyer will be all over the press. Our justice system is greatly admired for the way it prosecutes fake lawyers. I can just hear a crooked lawyer who resigned from his post saying this. A bit like the Master Policy it's fake too as it never pays out but this is another reason genuine rogue lawyers are not prosecuted, cannot ruin a lawyers career and compensate a client. This is what the Lawyers regard as rough justice.

Real lawyers are human filth, I would not deal with any of them even if [fat chance] they represented me for free. If you want to risk a master disaster, trust a lawyer, societies ultimate poisoned chalice.

Anonymous said...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22080694

"These court closures seriously threaten access to justice in many parts of Scotland and could lead to a long-term decline in our cherished justice system”

Austin Lafferty Law Society of Scotland.
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Here we go again. Austin Lafferty access to justice is selective as you know and when they are shutting the courts they should shut the Law Society too, it is a graveyard for client complaints. There is no complaints system in Scotland that will protect clients. A cherished justice system my arse, a lawyer protection racket if the truth. I dealt with a member of the legal profession once Austin and I never will again. Never.

Anonymous said...

Crime does pay in Scotland if you are a crooked Scottish lawyer or are pretending to be a crooked lawyer?

Anonymous said...

It should therefore not be forgotten that on all the available evidence of how genuine solicitors regulate themselves, it is a chilling fact that if di Stefano had been a genuine lawyer, the probability is he would not have been convicted of any crime whatsoever (OH YES THAT WAS HIS GRAVE MISTAKE, HE WAS NOT A GENUINE LAWYER BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THERE IS NO COMPLAINTS SYSTEM, IT WAS SET UP TO LOOK LIKE A COMPLAINTS SYSTEM BUT IT IS A MYTH) and just as in cases involving the likes of the notorious John G O’Donnell and hundreds of other ‘genuine’ solicitors who have toxic, yet secret complaints histories involving complicated frauds, embezzlement and negligence, clients would have received no return and no justice for their woes, (PROOF AS I HAVE SAID ON OTHER DOI ARTICLES

THERE IS NO COMPLAINTS SYSTEM, IT WAS DESIGNED TO PREVENT SCOTTISH LAWYERS CLIENTS FROM UNITING AND IN THE DARK SO THEY CAN KEEP ROBBING PEOPLE WITH NO BLEMISH ON THEM. THE OFFICE RECIPIENT OF A COMPLAINT FROM YOU IS IN THE SECRETIVE PRIVATE REALM, EVERYTHING ABOUT LAWYERS IS SECRET AND THAT IS NO ACCIDENT.

Anonymous said...

There is no complaints system, the Law Society and SLCC are lawyer protection rackets. FACT.

Anonymous said...

Self regulation was designd for one purpose, to keep genuine crooked lawyers out of the courts and investigated privately. This is why they are never prosecuted. The Law Society and SLCC wankers taught us there is no complaints system. In England a crook calling himself a lawyer gets 14 years jail? In Scotland 14 crooks stealing legal aid money who are lawyers, Crown Office states there is not enough admissible evidence to prosecute. Crown Office is not a prosecution service, unless you are claiming to be a lawyer. If this happened in Scotland the one claiming to be a lawyer would face Gill's courts.

Its not about universal unbaised justice, its about a criminal gang called lawyers who have engineered a system to exonerate them of any wrongdoing. No prosecution service and no complaints system. Rats regulating their own rats.

Anonymous said...

The powers that be, whether they are lawyers or politicians will spend a fortune on their own vested interests and its always taxpayers money they use as current and latter events demonstrate.

Anonymous said...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-authoritarian-ruler-1821699

Anonymous said...

Did Giovanni Di Stefano get written approval from the Law Society of Scotland to carry out his creepy agenda or did he spot that they turn-a-blind-eye to this type of behaviour by their own membership?

Anonymous said...

What is the difference between a crooked Scottish lawyer who is suspended by the Law Society of Scotland but who continues to unlawfully pass himself off as a bona fide lawyer.........and..........a crook who passes himself off as a Scottish lawyer without being qualified to do so?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - According to the Law Society of Scotland, as evidenced by their own inaction?


The Brothers Grimm could not even make this lot up?

Anonymous said...

Even O'Donnell avoids jail for passing himself off as a dead lawyer. The UK Justice system is a farce.

Anonymous said...

Now two of our top judges back secret arrests: Grave threat to open justice warns campaigners

Lord Justice Treacey and Mr Justice Tugendhat want anonymous arrests

Identity of those detained by police would no longer available to the public

Free speech campaigners condemn senior judges' 'very dangerous' call.
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Here is one you will not publish. [They did publish, good on the Mail Online} Mr Justice Tugendhat removed Solicitors From Hell from the internet, and he argued even if the posts were true it amounted to harassment of the legal profession. The world is getting worse. They want to silence the free press and not to be scrutinized themselves.

Johhanes , Glasgow, United Kingdom, 11/4/2013 13:43









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Anonymous said...

Judge Alistair McCreath, the Recorder of Westminster noted there were many offences over significant periods of time.

The fact the victims, which included a disabled man seeking damages for the loss of an arm, were all "desperate and vulnerable" and faced losses which were not just financial but also included the "raising and dashing of false hope" were aggravating factors, the judge said.
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Well in Scotland Mr Gordon of Perth was left desperate and vulnerable when Accountancy in Bankruptcy, the Court and Kippen Campbell froze his bank account. Only idiots or the uninitiated trust these lawyer maggots these days. As for "raising and dashing of false hope" that is just how the legal profession operate because they are bed pals with the insurers who are being sued for damages.

Anonymous said...

http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/221071-bedroom-tax-numbers-show-lack-of-one-bed-council-houses-in-scotland/

Thousands in Scotland have no hope of avoiding 'bedroom tax.'

Anonymous said...

Margaret Thatcher the tax snatcher? Mystery of her £6m house with links to THREE tax havens

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-tax-snatcher-mystery-1828441#ixzz2QL5HXDkt
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And Cameron wants to spend ten million pounds of our money on her funeral. Totally outrageous. She would have wanted it put out to competitive tender.

Anonymous said...


Anonymous said...
Now two of our top judges back secret arrests: Grave threat to open justice warns campaigners

Lord Justice Treacey and Mr Justice Tugendhat want anonymous arrests

Identity of those detained by police would no longer available to the public

Free speech campaigners condemn senior judges' 'very dangerous' call.
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Here is one you will not publish. [They did publish, good on the Mail Online} Mr Justice Tugendhat removed Solicitors From Hell from the internet, and he argued even if the posts were true it amounted to harassment of the legal profession. The world is getting worse. They want to silence the free press and not to be scrutinized themselves.

Johhanes , Glasgow, United Kingdom, 11/4/2013 13:43









Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307207/Now-judges-secret-arrests-grave-threat-open-justice-warns-campaigners.html#ixzz2Q9xLwTD1
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11 April 2013 14:07
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This emergency REACTIVE measure is being brought in because this is already going on........?

Robert Green, whilst registered with the electoral commission and whilst campaigning to be a Member of Parliament was RENDITIONED by the State and slammed in the cells without access to a lawyer, then summarily convicted of a breach of the peace by an incredulous court process cobbled together for the purpose to breach his human rights.....?

Now, Tim Rustige has been RENDITIONED from England to Scotland by the Scottish State for apparently passing an opinion about Elish Angiolini.....?

This is already going on. A police State?

Anonymous said...

This is total hypocrisy. If you are a crook pretending to be a lawyer to deceive your clients you get 14 years in jail?

If you are a Scottish crooked lawyer and are deceiving your clients you get a slap-on-the-back?

Go figure?

Anonymous said...

Private ownership created the space lawyers thrived in. Private investigations created the space lawyers hide in.

Anonymous said...

As many commentators have predicted, it was highly likely that crooks would turn to getting a Scottish law degree because it shielded them from the law to protect their criminal careers?

However, Giovanni Di Stefano spotted this but realised that the Law Society of Scotland were so negligent in their duty of care of the Scottish public that he decided to not even bother sitting the law degree and just assumed (correctly) that the Law Society of Scotland would allow him to carry on regardless, passing himself off as a lawyer?

However, his downfall seems to be that he crossed the border and presumed that the English jurisdiction would be as criminally corrupt as the Law Society of Scotland?

Anonymous said...

What is the difference between a crooked Scottish lawyer who has been suspended but still continues to pass himself off as a lawyer (putting two figures up to the law) and a member of the public who just passes themselves off as a Lawyer in Scotland?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?

The Law Society of Scotland sees them as two cheeks of the same bum and allows them to shit all over the defenceless public to allow them to cause the maximum harm and damage whilst at the same time defrauding innocent victims of their hard earned cash?

The Law Society of Scotland see this as straight forward criminal opportunism and regard these people as CASH TREE CULTIVATOR ENTREPRENEURS and reward these criminals with immunity from prosecution?