tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post1851163796732728680..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: POLICING SECRETS: Former Scottish Police Authority board member Moi Ali invited to give evidence at Holyrood, after MSPs accuse SPA bosses of running Police watchdog like Kremlin ‘secret society’Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9308211508226460962017-04-26T20:06:23.359+01:002017-04-26T20:06:23.359+01:00some qc went off his face about u on twitter and i...some qc went off his face about u on twitter and i heard all about it today in the office what is it all about and how did u get those mortgage numbers and why are crown office paying up workers mortgages and relocation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-25051797873034755772017-04-26T16:35:50.092+01:002017-04-26T16:35:50.092+01:00eww what a pack of liars running the Scottish Poli...eww what a pack of liars running the Scottish Police no wonder everything else is crooked!If the cops bosses are corrupt then it all follows everyone else gets away with blue murder!<br /><br />Any chance of a clean up and the whole lot resigning or will all this be forgotten in the next two weeks?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18393472174797254522017-04-23T19:38:33.719+01:002017-04-23T19:38:33.719+01:00What a lot of shifty, wheedling and clearly nervou...What a lot of shifty, wheedling and clearly nervous SPA senior executives are on view in the video. <br /><br />The Scottish Government bureaucrats are also clearly uncomfortable when posed with questions which they can not truthfully answer without admitting malfeasance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33407864372063003722017-04-23T19:04:23.622+01:002017-04-23T19:04:23.622+01:00Standards across the Scottish legal profession be ...Standards across the Scottish legal profession be it judges, solicitors or the police, are obviously very low.<br /><br />More worrying still, there are precious few in a position to change things for the better who are willing to do so.<br /><br />FIVE YEARS talking to 'consider' your petition? Such obvious and deliberate filibustering presents a real danger of casting a similar shadow over the Scottish Parliament and, not least, the SNP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-58288564409287458612017-04-23T18:57:56.106+01:002017-04-23T18:57:56.106+01:00What a pity there are not more like Ms. Ali.
Int...What a pity there are not more like Ms. Ali. <br /><br />Integrity seems to be a dirty word as far as the majority of the legal and political classes are concerned - creatures of the establishment one and all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-29508930501378887652017-04-23T18:56:00.813+01:002017-04-23T18:56:00.813+01:00Oh so Ms. Sturgeon and her cronies now get to see ...Oh so Ms. Sturgeon and her cronies now get to see private papers and consider its position BEFORE a committee entrusted with deciding matters. You couldn't make it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-43077303293985526732017-04-23T18:13:13.586+01:002017-04-23T18:13:13.586+01:00I saw this on the news!How on earth any of those p...I saw this on the news!How on earth any of those people from the police authority who got a pasting at the committee still have their jobs is beyond me!<br />They should all be sacked although I am guessing if they are sacked they will get big payoffs each to keep quiet and another job on another quango!Am I right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33181989989492438952017-04-23T17:08:57.329+01:002017-04-23T17:08:57.329+01:00Don McGillivray also on the list of those involved...Don McGillivray also on the list of those involved in the Megrahi case http://www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Scottish-govt-response-Nov-7th-2012.pdf see page 8 of this document<br /><br />Your interest in the judiciary may find the same Don McGillivray's presence on the Sheriff and Jury procedure review group of further interest given his most unconvincing performance in the Public Audit Committee meeting video clip.<br /><br />http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Justice/legal/criminalprocedure/review-sheriff-jury/review-procedure/RGmembership<br /><br />Independent Review of Sheriff & Jury Procedure - Membership of Reference Group<br /><br />John Dunn, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service<br /><br />David Forrester, Scottish Court Service<br /><br />Iain Livingstone, Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland<br /><br />Lindsay Montgomery, Scottish Legal Aid Board<br /><br />David McKenna, Victim Support Scotland<br /><br />Oliver Adair, Law Society of Scotland<br /><br />Gerry Considine, Law Society of Scotland<br /><br />Ronnie Renucci, Faculty of Advocates<br /><br />John Scott, Society of Solicitor Advocates<br /><br />Professor Maher, University of Edinburgh<br /><br />Don McGillivray, Scottish Government<br /><br />Sheriff S Cathcart<br /><br />Sheriff E Munro<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-80270462374095597432017-04-23T17:02:34.813+01:002017-04-23T17:02:34.813+01:00Don McGillivray is not very convincing.
Same mand...Don McGillivray is not very convincing.<br /><br />Same mandarin who helped ruin indyref 2014<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10913049/Mandarin-handed-independent-Scotland-set-up-report-to-Alex-Salmond.html<br /><br />Mandarin handed independent Scotland set-up report to Alex Salmond<br /><br />By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor<br /><br />6:51PM BST 19 Jun 2014<br /><br />CommentsComment<br /><br />Alex Salmond has been urged to come clean about a report written by one of his most senior mandarins about a separate Scotland’s start-up costs.<br /><br />The First Minister attacked as “nonsense” a Telegraph article that his civil servants have drawn up a rush report on the issue in the wake of a furore over his refusal to produce any costs before the referendum.<br /><br />But this newspaper can disclose that a document on creating a separate Scotland was submitted to him this month by Don McGillivray, deputy director of the Scottish Government's elections and constitution division.<br /><br />It was considered by civil servants in the Scottish Government’s finance department before being passed to the First Minister’s office ahead of a meeting he held last week with an academic who is drawing up a separate report on the same subject.<br /><br />Mr Salmond admitted that he met Professor Patrick Dunleavy, of the London School of Economics (LSE), but continued to deny there was work going on behind the scenes about set-up costs.<br /><br />The Scottish Government said Mr Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, his deputy, were provided with “briefing” material for the meeting with the academic, who has previously complained that a Treasury estimate of £2.7 billion grossly misrepresented his research.<br /><br />However, this newspaper understands that the document was not ordered merely to provide background information for the pair ahead of the talks and civil servants have started examining the set-up costs issue.<br /><br />Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, and Willie Davidson, her Liberal Democrats counterpart challenged Mr Salmond over our disclosures at First Minister’s Questions.<br /><br />The First Minister claimed the only “snippet of truth” was that he had met Prof Dunleavy. Less than six hours later the Scottish Government confirmed the existence of briefing material on setting up a separate country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com