tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post2253559076884224374..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Pressure on Scottish Legal Aid Board to stop public funds plunder as media reveals QC under Police investigation in alleged £60,000 legal aid fraudUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-35790528716303875292011-10-11T22:56:48.372+01:002011-10-11T22:56:48.372+01:00I couldn't think you are more rightI couldn't think you are more rightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-85118114984547706272011-07-15T18:29:02.418+01:002011-07-15T18:29:02.418+01:00Would you trust your next door neighbour with your...Would you trust your next door neighbour with your bank details, mortgage, life savings, no you would not and you probably know them fairly well. You may even be good friends. <br /><br />But you could have trusted Mr Douglas Mill (a lawyer) who lied to the Scottish Parliamnet Justice Committee to protect lawyers insurers, so that a ruined claint could not obtain damages from Royal Sun Alliance. <br /><br /><br />Mr Mill was the Director of the Law Society of Scotland and as he was protecting a crooked lawyer the client like you would not be able to obtain damages. So self regulation or self-policing allowed the Law Society to PROTECT THE CROOKED LAWYER. There is an inherent conflict of interest (Demonstrated by Mr Mill) in asking any organization to police itself. When the public became aware of this failure, an external, independent organization is often given the duty of policing them, but lawyers and the Law Society respond to the Setting up of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission by infiltrating it with full MSP support. Result the SLCC is every bit as corrupt as Mr Mill and his Law Society. <br /><br />Do not be fooled by the spin. Scotland's Legal Mafia are above the law and will remain so as long as they control the Scottish Parliament. Self regulation that liars charted that manifested itself in the MP's expenses scandal is prejudiced against the public. <br /><br />Look upon your lawyer they way you do your neighbour in matters financial because if your lawyer does steal from you you will be complaining about this to a member of the legal profession and Royal Sun Alliance will not compensate you one penny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-12227703781987347562011-07-15T17:48:41.525+01:002011-07-15T17:48:41.525+01:00A "humbled and very shaken" Rupert Murdo...A "humbled and very shaken" Rupert Murdoch has apologised to the family of Milly Dowler in a meeting in London.<br /><br />The chairman of News Corporation requested the meeting after it emerged that the murdered schoogirl's mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World newspaper in 2002.<br /><br /><br />Shocking Rupert the things you will do to for damage limitation, too late I think. No doubt some lawyer will try to mitigate the damage. Fat chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-43949472033105663162011-07-15T00:54:52.839+01:002011-07-15T00:54:52.839+01:00The Law Society of Scotland is the Lawyers Nazi Pa...The Law Society of Scotland is the Lawyers Nazi Party headquarters, because only Nazi's would condone legal dictatorship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-60948866212716334072011-07-15T00:49:47.868+01:002011-07-15T00:49:47.868+01:00http://www.bentjudges.com/scottish_legal_complaint...http://www.bentjudges.com/scottish_legal_complaints_commission.htm<br /><br />Margaret Scanlan and her former Law Society president husband Michael are influential figures in Glasgow's legal mafia. Together they have amassed a personal fortune through legal aid tickets submitted in the name of their law firm Russells Gibson McCaffrey.<br /><br />How thoroughly corrupt she is in accepting a highly-paid position within the Commission in the full knowledge that the whole reason for the inception of the SLCC was because of the Law Society’s concerted efforts to strangle valid complaints against Scottish solicitors.<br /><br />Scanlan once described the content of this Webmaster’s predecessor website as 'offensive' in an email to fellow SLCC members. The email was then leaked to the Sunday Mail who ran an expose on it, alongside Scanlan’s other anti-consumer rants.<br /><br />I was intrigued as to what it was that Scanlan and her cronies found so ‘offensive’, and so I wrote to them. They responded by saying that there wasn't 'anything specific' and that it was just the 'general tone' of the website that they didn't like! <br />--------------------------------<br />Yes Scanlan the truth hurts, any member of the public that trusts your lot must be mad or do not know what you are. You have infiltrated the Commission like maggots feeding on a corpse, you are undertakers alright because you bury client complaints.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45510112110500458622011-07-15T00:44:06.977+01:002011-07-15T00:44:06.977+01:00Jane Irvine - Chair
In 2001 Jane Irvine wrote to ...Jane Irvine - Chair<br /><br />In 2001 Jane Irvine wrote to parliament's Justice Committee, saying: "[The Faculty of Advocates] - it is biased against complainers, it is almost impossible for an advocate to own up to or recognise faults or indeed be found to have failed in any way"<br /><br />Ms Irvine was quite clear; the Faculty exhibits 'bias' against complainers. The Law Society also does the same.<br /><br />Ms Irvine will no doubt also be acutely aware that the current powers and composition of the SLCC will not come anywhere close to protecting the public from legal profession bias. Scottish lawyers will continue to operate in the full knowledge that they will, in most eventualities, be protected by their respective professional bodies from the consequences of professional and criminal misconduct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-57547976386482969392011-07-15T00:32:32.817+01:002011-07-15T00:32:32.817+01:00I would never walk into any lawyers office under a...I would never walk into any lawyers office under any circumstances, that is how much I trust these warped people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-65195122091981755612011-07-15T00:25:53.317+01:002011-07-15T00:25:53.317+01:00Systematic chaos is what happens when going to a l...Systematic chaos is what happens when going to a lawyer, systematic protection for the lawyer and chaos for the client. <br /><br />This oxymoron sums up the systemic poison the Commission and Law Society are and the chronic chaos for the client seeking a legal remedy against legal tyranny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61451097065609190462011-07-14T23:10:09.236+01:002011-07-14T23:10:09.236+01:00Mr Hamilton went onto discuss the case of Gail She...Mr Hamilton went onto discuss the case of Gail Sheridan being interviewed by Lothian & Borders Police in connection with charges against the Sheridans for perjury in the Sheridan v News International case. Hamilton said Gail Sheridan took legal advice, said nothing in the interview and was accused of being tutored by terrorists. Hamilton went onto say : “The Police Officer interviewing Gail Sheridan should have been sacked.”.<br /><br />The leak of the Gail Sheridan Police interview video tapes has been pursued by various publications although the individual who leaked the video has not yet been identified. Some sections of the interview, in which Mrs Sheridan is accused of being associated with terrorists, have been branded as examples of sectarianism within Scotland’s justice system. A section of the Police interview with Gail Sheridan can be viewed online HERE<br /><br />It was put to Ian Hamilton it was wrong for the Supreme Court in Britain to be involved in the issue (in relation to its ruling in the Nat Fraser case), Mr Hamilton responded by saying the issue is defects in the Scottish justice system and that Alex Salmond was wrong there (in connection with his criticisms of the Supreme Court). Hamiltion claimed “The administration of justice has not yet caught up with devolution.”<br /><br />Hamilton went onto say : “I would have an independent advocate as lord advocate and i would have a real tough in as justice minister, citing Alex Neil as a good candidate. Hamilton went onto say : “We need a different view on our minister of justice, only 4 % of the legal profession think MacAskill should keep his job. “Really Kenny MacAskill has got a solicitors mind to what is a statesman’s problem.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-23037663862281070602011-07-14T23:07:51.195+01:002011-07-14T23:07:51.195+01:00Ian Hamilton QC : Scotland’s record on Human Right...Ian Hamilton QC : Scotland’s record on Human Rights appalling, ex Lord Advocate & Justice Secretary to blame, Scots justice system is defective<br /><br />Anyone in Scotland who has interacted with the Scots justice system and its many tentacles, be it in civil law, or criminal law, will have experienced some of the many defects in what even one of our top judges describe himself as a “Victorian” justice system unfit for purpose. Last night, Ian Hamilton QC gave his thoughts on Scotland’s defective justice system to BBC Newsnight Scotland, and blamed former Lord Advocate, now Dame Elish Angiolini and Scotland’s current Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill as being to blame for Scotland’s poor record on Human Rights laws.<br /><br />Ian Hamilton QC speaks on Scotland, independence, the legal system and the Scots justice system’s appalling record on Human Rights since devolution.<br /><br /><br />http://scottishlaw.blogspot.com/2011/07/ian-hamilton-qc-scotlands-record-on.htmlKICK OUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS LIKE MACKASKILL & ANGIOLINInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66256013874629495412011-07-14T22:56:09.313+01:002011-07-14T22:56:09.313+01:00If the Law Society and Scottish Legal Complaints C...If the Law Society and Scottish Legal Complaints Commission protected clients web sites dedicated to warning the public would not be required.<br /><br />Lawyers must be rather immature people because they ruin clients and expect the Law Society SLCC fob off of complaints to be acceptable to clients. <br /><br />What would Drew Penman do if he was on the receiving end of legal corruption or Douglas Mill. They would want a clients head on a plate, but of course in this world they will not care if it does not affect them. <br /><br />Lawyers are wicked evil people, they would need to be because they would have insomnia if they ruined lives and felt guilty about it. <br /><br />Trust no liar, I mean lawyer, same thing eh Douglas and Drew. When all roads leading to Rome are blocked we find another way to get results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33577733339795804952011-07-14T20:52:40.554+01:002011-07-14T20:52:40.554+01:00‘One complaint upheld’, 928 more sent back to Law ...‘One complaint upheld’, 928 more sent back to Law Society & £1.8million spare cash : Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's 2010 annual report.<br /><br />Mr MacAskill will be giving the SLCC staff bonuses. He said he was delighted at the opening of the Commission. We knew why. They love throwing public money at protecting lawyers and not a mention of it in the newspapers or Scotland Today. The press have no balls in Scotland. Good journalism Peter.MR MACASKILL LOVES LAWYERSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-35863573789191189732011-07-14T19:15:19.226+01:002011-07-14T19:15:19.226+01:001st comment
My sentiments exactly although I hear...1st comment<br /><br />My sentiments exactly although I hear there are a few others in the Faculty who did far worse.I wonder why they were never investigated or charged?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9526161469616429142011-07-14T17:23:08.121+01:002011-07-14T17:23:08.121+01:00I have seen warnings on websites about no win no f...I have seen warnings on websites about no win no fee lawyers. They are a bunch of crooked bastards too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-77455485661447488442011-07-14T15:54:19.676+01:002011-07-14T15:54:19.676+01:00How many more at it I wonder?
With all those milli...How many more at it I wonder?<br />With all those millions going on legal aid there are bound to be a few with their fingers in the till!<br />Great work exposing it all Peter and the newspapers who dare!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-49459287392412675842011-07-14T14:01:39.969+01:002011-07-14T14:01:39.969+01:00The websites exposing the corrupt Scottish Legal p...The websites exposing the corrupt Scottish Legal profession cut through Law Society, SLCC bullshit and tell the public the truth. <br /><br />Lawyers are bad news.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-70178973180595421182011-07-14T14:00:12.443+01:002011-07-14T14:00:12.443+01:00Perhaps you could obtain and publish details of co...Perhaps you could obtain and publish details of complaints to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, I am sure members of the public would be delighted to expose Jane Irvine's lot for the crooked scumbags they are via your blog. <br /><br />The evidence will point one way, lawyer cleared and complainant without a legal remedy, just the way our politicians want to keep it.THE SCOTTISH LEGAL COVERUP COMMISSION FREQUENT LIARSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-17047882541678973622011-07-14T13:54:36.282+01:002011-07-14T13:54:36.282+01:00Negligent or crooked lawyers in Scotland can be th...Negligent or crooked lawyers in Scotland can be thankful for at least two weapons in their defence against complaints when a client realises they were ripped off.<br /><br />The first weapon in a dishonest lawyers arsenal against such a complaint, would be the Law Society of Scotland, the legal profession's well known self regulator of complaints against solicitors, who act only as a control point to ensure their members are unaffected by even the largest client frauds, poorest levels of service, and in some cases, criminal charges.<br /><br />The second, perhaps more sinister weapon a crooked lawyer can always seem to rely upon, no matter how crooked they are, is, Douglas Mill, the Law Society's very own Chief Executive of now more than ten years.<br />============================<br />Well Doug Mill had to resign but make no mistake, those left behind and new Law society recruits share the same self protective culture, lawyers are not regulated they are protected.<br /><br />All of you people out there watching adverts about the PPI scandal, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority people were against naming and shaming of lawyers in England, and the law firms advertising their services to recoup PPI are regulated by the same Solicitors Regulatory Authority.<br /><br />What do they have to hide?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-85684974321614541482011-07-14T11:40:22.729+01:002011-07-14T11:40:22.729+01:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Southall
In 2...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Southall<br /><br /><br />In 2004, Southall was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC), after alleging to police that the husband of Sally Clark was responsible for murdering the couple's children.[6] Southall made the claim to child protection officers of the Staffordshire police after watching a television documentary about the case.[1] The GMC banned Southall from child protection work for three years; the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence challenged the decision as insufficient and argued that he should be deregistered, but a High Court of Justice decision in 2005 held that the sanction was not unduly lenient.[7]<br />===============================<br />THIS GUY IS A LUNATIC AND A DANGEROUS ONE AT THAT. HE IS A MILE OUT AND THINKS HE IS RIGHT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-64658961781097481782011-07-14T11:34:44.577+01:002011-07-14T11:34:44.577+01:00http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8510...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8510180/A-Very-Dangerous-Doctor-Channel-4-review.html<br /><br />A Very Dangerous Doctor (Channel 4) was a documentary about another provocative topic. This was the story of Dr David Southall, an eminent paediatrician, and the women who deny his allegations that they harmed their own children. In 2007, the General Medical Council decided to strike Dr Southall off the medical register for serious professional misconduct after he accused a mother of murdering her son. His appeal in the High Court was dismissed. He made a second appeal; this one was upheld. The police interviewed him under suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm to a child. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue the case against him.<br /><br />Dr Southall has been the subject of a documentary before, a 2009 edition of Panorama that had the same title. He should think carefully before appearing in another. If he gave this interview in the hope of restoring his reputation in the eyes of the public, I doubt he did himself many favours by so often speaking in a supercilious, high-handed manner, or as though he were reading stiffly aloud from a prepared statement (“I remain of the view that…”). He also had the habit, while speaking to camera, of very slightly tilting his head back, thereby giving the unfortunate impression that he was looking down his nose at us.<br /><br />“I’m getting very concerned about what you’re asking here,” he protested to the interviewer, late on. “What I feel is that the tone of this programme you’re making has suddenly changed, to become rather negative.” Asked why a mother would spend 20 years trying to clear her name if his allegations weren’t false, he said, “Revenge.” The truth, he said, was “being bent”; there had been a “build-up of people” who had “reasons to be against” him. The mothers, he added, had “been aided by the media, in a very big way, because it’s very entertaining”.<br /><br />Last night’s documentary lasted from 9.00pm till 10.40pm. I’d be surprised if anyone found even a minute of it entertaining. It was dense, complex and sad. By the end I felt certain of nothing, other than that defending yourself on television is not only about what you say, it’s about how you say it. <br />================================<br />The mothers in the programme also stated that he wanted their children to use in his research. I believe the mothers in this case, as I have seen the same attitudes in other doctors. <br /><br />This is the guy who watched parents on the news and phoned the police to tell them the parents he was watching were responsible for their child's death. Everyone is wrong EXCEPT HIM. <br /><br />Remember Anita Patel, Angela Cannings, and the lawyer Sally Clark, all jailed on the evidence of a medical expert (Not Southall). When these gods give evidence, yes they are very dangerous doctors. The prosecution was controversial due to the involvement of the pediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, former Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Leeds, who testified at Clark's trial that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering cot death was 1 in 73 million. He likened the probability to the chances of backing an 80-1 outsider in the Grand National four years running, and winning each time.<br /><br />As we now know the three women were innocent, but the horrific power doctors have is dangerous. They self regulate too and I think some of them lose touch with reality and believe they are infallable. I am sure Meadow gave evidence at the trials of Cannings and Patel too. Children must be protected but who do we use as medical experts? A dangerous lottery indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-43732480604433314592011-07-14T11:18:43.882+01:002011-07-14T11:18:43.882+01:00Harold Shipman the mass murdering doctor got away ...Harold Shipman the mass murdering doctor got away with murder for so long because MASONS run the body responsible for disciplining doctors. All British citizens are at extreme risk of major medical accidents being covered up to protect masonic doctors like Shipman.<br /><br /><br />See more<br /><br />http://www.intmensorg.info/doctors.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-20294263424008119182011-07-14T00:23:35.398+01:002011-07-14T00:23:35.398+01:00http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-239...http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23964511-jack-straws-war-against-no-win-no-fee-firms.do<br /><br />Police are selling road crash victims' details to personal injury lawyers, former justice secretary Jack Straw claimed today.<br /><br />He also said insurance companies were "complicit" in the boom in personal injury claims by passing on information about accidents, for between £200 and £1,000 a case.<br /><br />Garages and hospitals are also allegedly involved. Lifting the lid on what he called the insurance industry's "dirty secret", Mr Straw said: "The whole thing is outrageous - it's a complete racket." He added he would have banned the referral payments if he had known about them when justice secretary.<br /><br />Nick Starling, of the Association of British Insurers, branded the personal injury compensation system as "dysfunctional" but denied firms were profiting from the payments.<br />=================================<br />Perhaps a new website is required<br /><br />Cops from hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-42328785091262228442011-07-14T00:18:34.790+01:002011-07-14T00:18:34.790+01:00Independent regulation is a myth because if it wor...Independent regulation is a myth because if it worked the endemic corruption we see daily would never be tolerated. <br /><br />I have as much confidence in the police to investigate criminality as I have in the Law society of Scotland to punish crooked lawyers. The whole system in bent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18416728549687139772011-07-13T22:18:53.111+01:002011-07-13T22:18:53.111+01:00I do not think there is such a thing as independen...I do not think there is such a thing as independent regulation of anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-14696283599005962402011-07-13T22:03:05.062+01:002011-07-13T22:03:05.062+01:00ONLY FOR THOSE AS YET TO WAKEN UP.
Do you think t...ONLY FOR THOSE AS YET TO WAKEN UP.<br /><br />Do you think the cops are there to protect you from criminals?<br /><br />Do you think judges are there to give you justice?<br /><br />Do you think lawyers are there to protect your freedoms?<br /><br />Do you think legal aid is paid to poor litigants?<br /><br />Do you think bailiff's act honestly when evicting homeowners?<br /><br />Do you think social workers are there to protect your children?<br /><br />Do you think politicians are there to ensure your welfare?<br /><br />Do you think local authority chiefs are there to provide you with services?<br /><br />Do you think psychiatrists are there to guard your mental health?<br /><br />Do you think the banks are there to make YOU prosperous?<br /><br />Do you think the media are there to enlighten us?<br /><br />Do you think teachers are there to educate ?<br /><br />Do you think the armed forces are there to protect your security?<br /><br />Do you think regulators are there to ensure all of the above stay in line? <br /><br />THERE IS NO REGULATION, AND FINALLY WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL IS MAN WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT IN THE FIRST PLACE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com