tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post1422122305054406298..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS: Hidden links between Scotland’s wealthy judges & big business begin to emerge as Scottish Parliament consider proposals to create a register of judicial interestsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-36451485263223955942014-12-28T03:25:53.055+00:002014-12-28T03:25:53.055+00:00I wish similar petition could be done not only in ...I wish similar petition could be done not only in Scotland but also in England and Wales where the level of judicial fraud and corruption appeared to be extremely high.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-19604810065953922302014-09-22T20:02:07.532+01:002014-09-22T20:02:07.532+01:00Interesting blog you have here I saw your stuff ab...Interesting blog you have here I saw your stuff about Tesco and the sheriff.<br /><br />Maybe they take having judges on their shareholders list as a sign they can do what they want as a company re today's profits warning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38329242931044992872014-05-11T20:35:23.599+01:002014-05-11T20:35:23.599+01:00 Anonymous said...
Let us all pray and hope that t... Anonymous said...<br />Let us all pray and hope that the Petitions Committee have the backbone to see the this petition made law - soon - and scream the house down if it is swept under the carpet.<br /><br />7 May 2014 21:50<br />[]{}}{][]{}}{][]{}}{][<br /><br />The problem we will still have is that it is Scottish lawyers (masquerading as Scottish Civil Servants) who draw up our laws?<br /><br />Guess where their loyalty lies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-12053800047343510832014-05-09T12:55:50.329+01:002014-05-09T12:55:50.329+01:00and what about these bent confidentiality agreemen...and what about these bent confidentiality agreements to stop nhs whistleblowers what is going to happen to these - they should be all opened up to full scrutiny and stuff the gagging clauses probably enforced by crooked judges<br /><br />http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/health-gagging-orders-face-tough-scrutiny-by-ministers.24134001<br /><br />Health gagging orders face tough scrutiny by ministers<br />David Ross<br />Highland Correspondent<br />Monday 5 May 2014<br /><br />ALL compromise agreements, or "gagging clauses", negotiated by health boards will have to be approved by the Scottish Government before being signed under new regulations.<br /><br />A total of 697 such documents were signed in the past five years and accountability campaigners welcomed the move by ministers as helping to remove the culture of fear surrounding them.<br /><br />The move follows the furious row over gagging clauses in severance agreements between health boards and workers about to leave employment, often after a dispute. Health boards have denied misusing the agreements.<br /><br />The issue came to a head earlier this year when The Herald revealed that a whistleblowing doctor, Dr Jane Hamilton, was risking a six-figure settlement and possibly the sack by speaking of her refusal to accept a confidentiality clause.<br /><br />Health Secretary Alex Neil had previously warned health boards against such gags and in February declared he was removing confidentiality clauses from settlements with NHS staff.<br /><br />He said there was a perception they "could be used to prevent staff from speaking out about failures in care offered to patients".<br /><br />But The Herald has learned he has gone further and has ordered that all compromise agreements be subject to government scrutiny.<br /><br />Rab Wilson, the psychiatric nurse turned whistleblower who exposed failures in NHS Ayrshire and Arran, welcomed the news.<br /><br />He said: "For far too long health boards have been acting like feudal barons; beyond the pale and accountable to no-one.<br /><br />"I had a confidentiality clause arbitrarily slapped on me by NHS Ayrshire and Arran when there was no need whatsoever to do so - it was a crude attempt to effectively gag me, and my union, Unison, played along with it."<br /><br />Dr Hamilton, a nationally recognised psychiatric specialist, had raised concerns about the mother and baby unit (MBU) at St John's Hospital, Livingston, and warned in writing that somebody could die.<br /><br />Two mothers subsequently took their lives and the family of one is suing the health board.<br /><br />Dr Hamilton had raised these concerns as "protected disclosures" which were supposed to come with safeguards for whistleblowers against victimisation. However, in the compromise agreement offered to her by NHS Lothian, they were classed as "grievances" and included in a confidentiality clause. It would have meant she could never publicly mention them again.<br /><br />Her legal advice was that she was effectively being gagged. NHS Lothian consistently denied this, but subsequently removed the clause.<br /><br />Police are investigating the case of Dr Hamilton after it was reported by Mr Wilson. It is a crime to prevent staff from raising concerns about patient safety or malpractice.<br /><br />Dr Hamilton said yesterday she welcomed this further tightening-up and scrutiny of the use of compromise agreements "which have up to now clearly been frequently used to buy off and silence staff".<br /><br />She campaigns in Scotland on behalf of Patients First, the body set up by the whistleblower Dr Kim Holt, who was victimised but ultimately vindicated in 2007 in the Baby P scandal in London.<br /><br />It is calling for a fully independent watchdog with investigatory and disciplinary powers to protect and encourage staff and ensure quality care for patients.<br /><br />A Scottish Government spokesman said: "We are putting in place new arrangements for the notification and approval of settlement agreements in the current financial year.<br /><br />"We are currently considering consultation responses and will set out the new process in due course."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31507888789816170122014-05-09T11:13:29.687+01:002014-05-09T11:13:29.687+01:00Anonymous said...
Dont worry about lack of BBC on ... Anonymous said...<br />Dont worry about lack of BBC on this story because they have their own agenda and we see it every day on their news - nothing about Scotland just about everywhere else on the planet except us.The best thing maybe happen is the Scottish Gov pull the bbc plug and give us television who tell us about our news and things we want to know like this instead of all their diversion rubbish.<br /><br />8 May 2014 11:16<br />:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;::;:;:;:;:<br /><br />Scottish State BBC News is heavily censored by the Law Society of Scotland to misguide the general population into believing that everything is fine and dandy?<br /><br />Ask yourself, when was the last time the BBC reported on the many crooked Scottish lawyers or the criminal behaviour perpetrated by the Law Society of Scotland and it's twins the SSDT and SLCC or indeed to report on the Scandal going on with the Scottish Judiciary?<br /><br />Then when you dig a little deeper you find out that the head of BBC legal is a Law Society of Scotland stooge?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-19465916616549477082014-05-09T10:10:06.817+01:002014-05-09T10:10:06.817+01:00This amounts to back-of-an-envelope-style manageme...This amounts to back-of-an-envelope-style management and control of Scottish Judges?<br /><br />The question is why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-34488955102262820102014-05-09T10:04:34.768+01:002014-05-09T10:04:34.768+01:00Anonymous said...
Scotland's judges are coming...Anonymous said...<br />Scotland's judges are coming clean when they have to step away from court cases because of a conflict of interests.<br /><br />Scotland’s top judge has decided that for the first time the public can see online why judges and sheriffs have stood down from hearing criminal trials and civil actions. WHO GAVE HIM THIS POWER, WHY DOES HE HAVE IT, IN WHOSE INTERESTS IT IS USED, HOW CAN WE ESTABLISH IF JUDGES ARE CORRUPT AND HOW CAN WE GET RID OF THEM AND PROSECUTE THEM. <br /><br />THESE PEOPLE HAVE LIMITLESS POWER AND THAT IS AN ANACHRONISTIC CORRUPT ARRANGEMENT.<br /><br />6 May 2014 08:46<br />/)/(/)/)/)//(/?/)/)/)/)/)/)/)/)/)/<br /><br />If we are to believe the 'line', that there is no system in place to monitor and control whether or not Scottish Judges & Sheriffs are recusing themselves, other than their 'Word' means that Scotland does not have a Justice System worthy of the name and that this admission by NONO is evidence of a dereliction of duty at best and at worse a flagrant disregard of the morals required to act as a Judge?<br /><br />If no system has been in place to be able to guarantee probity, then the whole Scottish Justice System is synonymous with the worst example of a Banana Republic?<br /><br />Logic dictates that there must be a corresponding mistrust in Judicial Decisions brought about by Scottish Judges & Sheriffs themselves to the extent that it would be of no surprise if cases past and present were appealed on the basis that the result of the cases cannot be relied upon?<br /><br />This is the damage the Scottish Judiciary have caused to our Judicial System, which is now considered to be as low as a snakes belly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-52890390606261270362014-05-08T11:16:37.679+01:002014-05-08T11:16:37.679+01:00Dont worry about lack of BBC on this story because...Dont worry about lack of BBC on this story because they have their own agenda and we see it every day on their news - nothing about Scotland just about everywhere else on the planet except us.The best thing maybe happen is the Scottish Gov pull the bbc plug and give us television who tell us about our news and things we want to know like this instead of all their diversion rubbish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86545197132115328282014-05-07T21:50:30.881+01:002014-05-07T21:50:30.881+01:00Let us all pray and hope that the Petitions Commit...Let us all pray and hope that the Petitions Committee have the backbone to see the this petition made law - soon - and scream the house down if it is swept under the carpet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-12230866156903110552014-05-07T15:38:42.934+01:002014-05-07T15:38:42.934+01:00The Scottish Legal System is a closed monopoly des...The Scottish Legal System is a closed monopoly designed for the benefit of its users i.e. Scottish Lawyers?<br /><br />It has nothing at all to do with Justice and is entirely concerned with trading lives for cash and their self enrichment?<br /><br />A calculating & repulsive lot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22599633448268693212014-05-07T11:55:58.165+01:002014-05-07T11:55:58.165+01:00I do not understand why the police are not investi...I do not understand why the police are not investigating these dodgy Sheriffs and Judges!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-67422984472089807882014-05-06T13:24:46.599+01:002014-05-06T13:24:46.599+01:00Lord Gill's efforts to shut down your petition...Lord Gill's efforts to shut down your petition appear to have failed once again..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33500913355019516282014-05-06T10:28:26.530+01:002014-05-06T10:28:26.530+01:00Just get this register into law as soon as possibl...Just get this register into law as soon as possible!The judges obviously need it because they are hiding too much and we need it to keep an eye on the judges!<br /><br />Good to see it in the newspapers I buy both of these so have the originals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39638693119483300532014-05-06T08:46:59.529+01:002014-05-06T08:46:59.529+01:00Scotland's judges are coming clean when they h...Scotland's judges are coming clean when they have to step away from court cases because of a conflict of interests.<br /><br />Scotland’s top judge has decided that for the first time the public can see online why judges and sheriffs have stood down from hearing criminal trials and civil actions. WHO GAVE HIM THIS POWER, WHY DOES HE HAVE IT, IN WHOSE INTERESTS IT IS USED, HOW CAN WE ESTABLISH IF JUDGES ARE CORRUPT AND HOW CAN WE GET RID OF THEM AND PROSECUTE THEM. <br /><br />THESE PEOPLE HAVE LIMITLESS POWER AND THAT IS AN ANACHRONISTIC CORRUPT ARRANGEMENT. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9143162178013635712014-05-05T23:14:41.146+01:002014-05-05T23:14:41.146+01:00Is this the exact same situation as with Scottish ...Is this the exact same situation as with Scottish lawyers, where you simply cannot trust any of them to be honest, diligent, impartial or fair?<br /><br />Not that all Scottish Judges & Sheriffs are tarred-with-the -same-brush but more that it is simply statistically significant that you will end up with a dodgy one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-47221968678440521412014-05-05T23:00:17.288+01:002014-05-05T23:00:17.288+01:00Anonymous said...
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/new...<br />Anonymous said...<br />http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/law-chief-pledges-wreck-dirty-3494356<br /><br />THE Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce have a strategy of “divert, deter, disrupt and detect” and draw together the private sector, local authorities and police.<br /><br />Another weapon in the fight against organised crime is proceeds of crime legislation.<br /><br />Prosecutors revealed last week that £8.2million of dirty money had been seized from criminals last year.<br /><br />Although the figure was £4million down on the 2012 total, more people were hit with criminal confiscation orders.<br /><br />There was also a rise in the number of people forced to prove they were earning their cash legally. Solicitor General Lesley Thomson QC, said: “Those who attempt to build up criminal business are finding that we can wreck their ventures by ending their funding streams and their hopes of living off the profits of their crimes.”<br /><br />Businesswoman Kwai Fun Li, 46, of Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, was ordered to surrender more than £700,000 in cash and assets.<br /><br />She was initially fined £6000 for employing illegal immigrants in her restaurants between December 2009 and May 2010.<br /><br />But she was forced to hand over the six-figure sum after failing to account for how she funded her lavish lifestyle.<br />==================================<br />And yet we don't know if those who sit over court proceedings are involved in crime as the judiciaries convictions are kept quiet. Another example of the law being applied politically.<br /><br />5 May 2014 07:30<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />This is just propaganda!<br /><br />Like the Mafia putting all of the opposition out of business, so that they have a monopoly over the rich-pickings and the say over who lives and who dies, who goes to prison and who gets let off Scot-Free?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-34449350258460472872014-05-05T22:51:18.833+01:002014-05-05T22:51:18.833+01:00Anonymous said...
How can a judge be impartial if ...Anonymous said...<br />How can a judge be impartial if they hold shares in the company involved in a case before them?<br /><br />This is madness.The judges have come up with their own rules and convinced everyone to believe this is normal.It is not normal and not acceptable.<br /><br />As for no report from the BBC well they must have their own vested interest in keeping this out of the news and we all know what that is.<br /><br />3 May 2014 13:31<br />--------------------------<br /><br />This just goes to show just how far removed from the moral standard our Scottish Judges have gone to and is a perfect illustration of what happens when you give a set of people the power to do what they like, knowing that no one will be checking up on them?<br /><br />Making hay while the sun shines......and making hay when it rains and snows too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-35394753041919926132014-05-05T18:46:14.077+01:002014-05-05T18:46:14.077+01:00Anonymous said...
There is a Sheriff who live...Anonymous said...<br /><br /> There is a Sheriff who lives at the end of our street in a detached house.He spends his time terrorising his neighbours who wanted to build a porch and garage to their house.He stopped it going ahead and is now trying to hound them out of their home with the intention he gets the property on the cheap.Now his plan has hit a wall after someone told his neighbours about this blog and the fact their solicitors also work for him.Local newspaper took the story and then did nothing because of the sheriff and who he is.Expect some comments from Fife about a corrupt sheriff!<br /><br /> 5 May 2014 11:52<br /><br />No doubt the sheriff will be able to rely on the local lawyers sucking up for favours and the corrupt clerks in the local courts to make sure the neighbour is turfed out of their own home or made bankrupt and Mr or Mrs sheriff ends up with titles to their neighbour's property.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-75506038849310315702014-05-05T12:19:58.143+01:002014-05-05T12:19:58.143+01:00Gill's view of Judicial Independence is that h...Gill's view of Judicial Independence is that he wants everyone outside the conflict of interest sphere to stop asking questions and fighting for reform. The legal profession are now suffering the reaction from their countless victims. Easy for them to stop civil cases where the client has a case because it would punish the judges financially, it is a corrupt system as lawyers reading this blog know and never deny. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-64472731815919646512014-05-05T11:52:09.453+01:002014-05-05T11:52:09.453+01:00There is a Sheriff who lives at the end of our str...There is a Sheriff who lives at the end of our street in a detached house.He spends his time terrorising his neighbours who wanted to build a porch and garage to their house.He stopped it going ahead and is now trying to hound them out of their home with the intention he gets the property on the cheap.Now his plan has hit a wall after someone told his neighbours about this blog and the fact their solicitors also work for him.Local newspaper took the story and then did nothing because of the sheriff and who he is.Expect some comments from Fife about a corrupt sheriff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-6831925979894670132014-05-05T09:42:14.241+01:002014-05-05T09:42:14.241+01:00Stop using lawyers and the courts. Stop using lawyers and the courts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-7179248756195059292014-05-05T09:41:29.166+01:002014-05-05T09:41:29.166+01:00Hidden links between Scotland’s wealthy judges &am...Hidden links between Scotland’s wealthy judges & big business begin to emerge, and as we know these links buy a lot of friendship. <br /><br />Justice for these people is not fairness, it is keeping each other rich at the public's expense. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-17837877963035535832014-05-05T09:39:19.826+01:002014-05-05T09:39:19.826+01:00The law of Delict Lord Gill where causal links are...The law of Delict Lord Gill where causal links are needed in order for damages to be awarded and no doubt Judges, Sheriffs, lesser lawyers, expert witnesses and others have financial interests in the insurance company being sued and this is why justice is a business to the judiciary, and torture for the genuinely injured. <br /><br />Clearly DOI are right when they tell people there is no point in using lawyers or the courts. Like Parliaments the Courts and Judiciary are bought and paid for by your factions business connections. Civil law cases never go the clients way because it is all engineered to look pukka when the reality is that it is a stitch up start to finish. Don't use the courts folks, you cannot win your case and of course there is no complaints system either. <br />They have devised the perfect system for their own financial enrichment by using the public and dropping them before the court date. Bee there, and I know what I am talking about. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-87718669087761856772014-05-05T07:30:12.483+01:002014-05-05T07:30:12.483+01:00http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/la...http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/law-chief-pledges-wreck-dirty-3494356<br /><br />THE Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce have a strategy of “divert, deter, disrupt and detect” and draw together the private sector, local authorities and police.<br /><br />Another weapon in the fight against organised crime is proceeds of crime legislation.<br /><br />Prosecutors revealed last week that £8.2million of dirty money had been seized from criminals last year.<br /><br />Although the figure was £4million down on the 2012 total, more people were hit with criminal confiscation orders.<br /><br />There was also a rise in the number of people forced to prove they were earning their cash legally. Solicitor General Lesley Thomson QC, said: “Those who attempt to build up criminal business are finding that we can wreck their ventures by ending their funding streams and their hopes of living off the profits of their crimes.”<br /><br />Businesswoman Kwai Fun Li, 46, of Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, was ordered to surrender more than £700,000 in cash and assets.<br /><br />She was initially fined £6000 for employing illegal immigrants in her restaurants between December 2009 and May 2010.<br /><br />But she was forced to hand over the six-figure sum after failing to account for how she funded her lavish lifestyle.<br />==================================<br />And yet we don't know if those who sit over court proceedings are involved in crime as the judiciaries convictions are kept quiet. Another example of the law being applied politically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-74360870861290088502014-05-03T13:31:17.994+01:002014-05-03T13:31:17.994+01:00How can a judge be impartial if they hold shares i...How can a judge be impartial if they hold shares in the company involved in a case before them?<br /><br />This is madness.The judges have come up with their own rules and convinced everyone to believe this is normal.It is not normal and not acceptable.<br /><br />As for no report from the BBC well they must have their own vested interest in keeping this out of the news and we all know what that is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com