tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post6924023798488891372..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: The Dishonesty Factor: Scottish solicitors accused of dishonesty ‘less likely to be struck off’ than dishonest lawyers who face tougher regulation in England & WalesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-20296077940300663282014-03-12T13:07:25.572+00:002014-03-12T13:07:25.572+00:00Are the Law Society's SSDT in contravention of...Are the Law Society's SSDT in contravention of Article 6 of the ECHR which states that there must be equality of arms and that a defendant must receive a fair hearing?<br /><br />The Law Society's SSDT is a closed-shop outfit, held in secret behind closed doors. It is not consistent in it's decisions, is highly subjective and has conflicts about what dishonesty and deception are and takes no interest in previous cases coming before it. They also seem to cherry-pick which pieces of evidence they call fact, whilst diminishing the rights of the client victim and finally, it is the poacher who is doing the prosecuting of their own member, where the crooked Scottish lawyer is favoured over the rights of the client victim, resulting in known crooked Scottish lawyers being let off Scot Free?<br /><br /><br />All in all, it is an unlawful group, run by an unlawful organisation and has no right to continue to operate against the Scottish public?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-47887524518558610042014-03-10T14:17:26.021+00:002014-03-10T14:17:26.021+00:00If the SSDT are an honest and upstanding independe...If the SSDT are an honest and upstanding independent Regulatory body, then why do they hand out fines and costs against crooked Scottish lawyers but then have no involvement whatsoever in collecting these monies, or even checking to see if they are ever paid?<br /><br />Instead, the SSDT hand this responsibility entirely to the Law Society of Scotland, who are supposed to collect these monies from their members but they all too often can't be bothered to collect these fines?<br /><br />Therefore, the SSDT are not Regulators at all because the fines & costs process is being undermined by the Law Society of Scotland, where effectively the Law Society of Scotland are then allowed to 'cherry-pick' which lawyers have to pay up and which lawyers are allowed to get off Scot Free?<br /><br />Of course, this is fraud and attempting to defeat the course of justice and just emboldens their member crooked Scottish lawyers to continue their campaigns of crime against the Scottish Public because they are continually let off Scot Free?<br /><br />All happily done before breakfast in the World of the Law Society of Scotland?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31418129305661868952014-03-10T14:08:19.203+00:002014-03-10T14:08:19.203+00:00Who do the SSDT report to?Who do the SSDT report to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16653967154397433822014-03-09T23:06:20.744+00:002014-03-09T23:06:20.744+00:00In the clip the SSDT say that they make a judgemen...In the clip the SSDT say that they make a judgement as to whether anyone has been harmed?<br /><br />Why on Earth would they look to excuses like this, when the conduct is of a very serious nature regardless if anyone got harmed, if they are not fishing for excuses to find a way?<br /><br />Surely it is the Principle that is what should be protected?<br /><br />This description implies that if they decide that in their opinion no one is harmed then despite the dodgy lawyer breaking the law and being deceptive, they let them off?<br /><br />This must be the dumb logic they used to come up with the 'Borrowing Without Consent' robbers?<br /><br />This could be twisted to mean that if the dodgy Scottish lawyer enriches themselves of their Client's hard earned cash, they didn't actually 'harm' anyone, they just nicked there money, so let's just let them off?<br /><br />Also, if Scottish dodgy lawyers show a propensity to be cheats and deceivers but are still let off, then what standards have the SSDT followed to arrive at these decisions?<br /><br />Because it is a sham?<br /><br />It is a mickey-taking of the Scottish Public?<br /><br />Just read the case reports on their website to see for yourself?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-28190280354366744222014-03-09T22:52:48.733+00:002014-03-09T22:52:48.733+00:00Clearly the SSDT do not bother in any way shape of...Clearly the SSDT do not bother in any way shape of form about assessing the risk of Scottish crooked lawyers reoffending?<br /><br />So much so that there is a now a new legal definition for Scottish crooked lawyers who habitually reoffend?<br /><br />They are called Scottish crooked BOOMERANG lawyers?<br /><br />When you think you have got rid of them they seem to come straight back to haunt you again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-7258512416140783132014-03-08T17:03:16.500+00:002014-03-08T17:03:16.500+00:00Sounds as if the best thing to do is not to use an...Sounds as if the best thing to do is not to use any lawyer (especially Scottish lawyers) if that is what they get up to when complaints come in.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-89244348575377193712014-03-08T16:09:50.254+00:002014-03-08T16:09:50.254+00:00I am sure the Law Society of Scotland were respons...I am sure the Law Society of Scotland were responsible for springing over 100 amendments to the LPLA (Scotland) Act 2007 the night before the Scottish Parliament were to vote on it, giving the Parliament no time to consider these changes, so they just voted it in regardless?<br /><br />This act could well be treason, as this Act of Parliament does the opposite of what it was supposed to do, which was to stop the Law Society from being above the law and just making the Rules up as they saw fit?<br /><br />It is quite literally a travesty of justice and now the victims of Scottish crooked lawyers are being hounded and humiliated at an even faster rate than before?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-42671395696684475652014-03-08T13:41:47.201+00:002014-03-08T13:41:47.201+00:00@ 7 March 2014 09:49
With regards to what you sai...@ 7 March 2014 09:49<br /><br />With regards to what you said regarding "It would be good for the BBC to come back and do a story on how clients of rogue lawyers get their lives back together after the Law Society has done their level best to protect their colleagues."<br /><br />Doubtful, although this is an issue Diary of Injustice has covered in the past and will do so again.<br /><br />Clients of rogue lawyers are rarely if ever allowed to get their lives back together after being through the mill of soliictors self regulation and the Law Society of Scotland.<br /><br />The expression "marked for life" would be a good description of how clients fare after dealing with the Law Society and now the SLCC on a complaints basis. <br /><br />It should be no surprise to anyone that a profession which regulates itself will then take it upon itself to get its own back on those who are forced to complain about solicitors when things go wrong.<br /><br />Diary of Injustice has encoutered a number of cases over the years where solicitors who faced complaints from clients and then escaped any regulatory punishment for their actions, went on to quite vindicitvely interdict the personal lives of their former clients to the point abuse.<br /><br />In one case, the wife of a solicitor who embezzled over £100K of client's cash on a property transaction used her connections with a local authority to have her husband's former client's children temporarily taken into care. <br /><br />This happened after the same bank which the solicitor had taken the former client's cash from, repossessed the former client's house a year after the Law Society dismissed the complaint against their colleague.<br /><br />The list goes on ... solicitors once the subject of complaints often use their professional positions and links with others to undermine former clients from obtaining finance, positions on housing registers, receipt of benefits, blocked property transactions, and a lack of any access to further legal representation.<br /><br />In many cases family members of solicitors once the subject of complaints have also joined in. The profession does not like to acknowledge this but it is a fact. <br /><br />Just think of it in terms of what happens in a bad neighbour dispute ... when things get that ugly, it often involves whole families and years of acrimony which could have been fixed with one swoop of a striking off.<br /><br />Cases like these are well known to those in the media who report on these kinds of issues ... but as you see, the law is slow to change, and when attempts are made to bring in independent regulation of the legal profession, any legislation is effectively hijacked by the very same people it is meant to clean up as in the ongoing train wreck of the LPLA (Scotland) Act 2007Diary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-87703057193961706762014-03-07T19:34:59.445+00:002014-03-07T19:34:59.445+00:00 Anonymous said...
More inclined to believe the pa... Anonymous said...<br />More inclined to believe the panel rather than the rant of Douglas Mill.<br /><br />Dishonesty is prevalent in the profession,everyone knows it and this is one of the main reasons that business has gone out the window along with reputations.<br /><br />6 March 2014 17:26<br />-------------------<br /><br />They are all Douglas Mill?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61822568519580432192014-03-07T19:33:07.548+00:002014-03-07T19:33:07.548+00:00 Anonymous said...
Dishonesty is the word that mos... Anonymous said...<br />Dishonesty is the word that most accurately describes the Law Society and their pals at the SSDT.<br /><br />5 March 2014 21:46<br />vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvw<br /><br />They would probably congratulate themselves and wear it as a badge of honour!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-41814910552795036142014-03-07T19:27:33.112+00:002014-03-07T19:27:33.112+00:00Anonymous said...
"One is always concerned wh... Anonymous said...<br />"One is always concerned when there is deception but you can have a situation where solicitors simply lose their place. They make false representations in order to improve their client’s position, not necessarily their own. "<br /><br />So a lawyer losing their place allows them to lie ruin and ground clients into the dirt?<br /><br />This just shows us what they really think of the public and their clients!<br /><br />2 March 2014 17:57<br />fffffffffffffffffffff<br /><br />Thinly disguised contempt!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-46935043496853275412014-03-07T19:17:48.974+00:002014-03-07T19:17:48.974+00:00Anonymous said...
Concerned on any occasion but no...Anonymous said...<br />Concerned on any occasion but not concerned enough to strike off.<br /><br />What good is this to other people out there who will end up unknowingly using a lawyer already accused of dishonesty and just like the English expert says is likely to reoffend.<br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br />The main consequence of the corrupt Scottish Regulatory system is that the same Scottish lawyers keep returning to the SSDT over and over again? (And this is even after the Law Society of Scotland have unlawfully interfered, obfuscated and lessened your complaint?)<br /><br />This is proof that Scottish crooked lawyers are not disciplined but rather congratulated for causing havoc and heartache?<br /><br />If your crooked Scottish lawyer is reported for offences that they have already been before the SSDT with and let off with a light Sanction then the payout to the victim should be enormous?<br /><br />Cash is the only thing that is important to these crooks and they should cough up or the SSDT panel members should be held to account?<br /><br />Who do you complain to about the Law Society of Scotland's SSDT?<br /><br />No One?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63033316716833355122014-03-07T19:01:24.925+00:002014-03-07T19:01:24.925+00:002 March 2014 15:58
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I canno...2 March 2014 15:58<br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br />I cannot believe what I was hearing on the BBC's exposure of wide scale corruption by the SSDT and the Law Society of Scotland?<br /><br />It says it all when the very Chairman of the SSDT is actually seeming to argue that dishonesty by a Scottish crooked lawyer may actually be a good thing because it could favour the Client?<br /><br />I am sorry this is unlawful?<br /><br />If your crooked Scottish lawyer is guilty of deception in any way whatsoever, they should be permanently banned from being a lawyer. End of?<br /><br />This attitude seems to show that the so-called Regulatory Process in Scotland is unconcerned with dishonesty in their profession and seems to seek to justify dishonesty wherever they find it?<br /><br />What about the next Client of this crooked Scottish lawyer?<br /><br />The Regulatory System in Scotland is Contributorily Negligent for allowing a crooked Scottish lawyer with no scruples and who is happy to be dishonest when they are hired by an unsuspecting new Client?<br /><br />4 March 2014 12:09<br />""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""<br /><br />Of course, the real cause of all this is that Scottish lawyers are above the law and cannot be sued?<br /><br />Similarly, it is not possible to sue the Law Society of Scotland & the SSDT or members of them because they too are above the law?<br /><br />If they do not fear any consequences of their decisions then they just take advantage and take the pure pish out of the Client victim all over again?<br /><br />Consequently, these people are organised and colluding with each other to commit wholesale heinous crime against the Scottish People?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-56363421295856220262014-03-07T18:51:05.986+00:002014-03-07T18:51:05.986+00:00Anonymous said...
An ex-colleague of mine on a loc... Anonymous said...<br />An ex-colleague of mine on a local newspaper went along to one of these SSDT hearings with the family who complained about their solicitor.<br />Although the family asked he be allowed in he was not and 4 months down the line after my editor took ear bashing from some shit at the Law Society who goes around calling himself a media lawyer my colleague was sacked from the paper for doing nothing other than asking a question about the result - it was a fine after family revealed the tribunal was told by solicitor's rep they may land in court if anything else.<br /><br />Was going to take the group to an unfair dismissal hearing - he could not get legal rep then someone who knows you stepped in offering possibility of a headline and there was a payoff to keep it all quiet.<br /><br />3 March 2014 16:26<br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br />These crooks should be named and shamed.<br /><br />This is how they keep getting their crooked membership off, by coercion, blackmail and pay offs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-24653348398498285112014-03-07T11:29:02.081+00:002014-03-07T11:29:02.081+00:00What now for the SSDT?
Along with its chairman the...What now for the SSDT?<br />Along with its chairman the tribunal has no credibility left with the admissions in these video clips and your excellent work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33817127542289301052014-03-07T09:49:04.325+00:002014-03-07T09:49:04.325+00:00Those Scotsman stories in relation to Penman and t...Those Scotsman stories in relation to Penman and the report you obtained from the Law Society - clearly he should have gone to the SSDT and if the English experts are to be believed faced a striking off.However after hearing this Mr Cockburn and reading more of your reports on the SSDT I do not believe the tribunal is fit for purpose or has any measure of honesty.<br /><br />As you say Penman is not a blip and has probably happened thousands of times hence the BBC finally got their act together and looked into the issue of how lawyers are regulating themselves for their own protection.<br /><br />It would be good for the BBC to come back and do a story on how clients of rogue lawyers get their lives back together after the Law Society has done their level best to protect their colleagues.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-91522034703115283352014-03-06T21:46:35.825+00:002014-03-06T21:46:35.825+00:00I have a relative who waited years to get to the s...I have a relative who waited years to get to the ssdt and when it came to the day the Law Society called it off and that was the end of it despite all the promises of a prosecution and a certainty of striking off.The solicitor is still working and not a scratch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31615701749985600042014-03-06T18:07:52.211+00:002014-03-06T18:07:52.211+00:00Is it not a bit weird to conclude that there are d...Is it not a bit weird to conclude that there are different kinds of dishonesty, the good kind and the bad kind, or is it just me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-42235624337460072182014-03-06T18:03:16.301+00:002014-03-06T18:03:16.301+00:00How many other false representations have these so...How many other false representations have these solicitors been making?<br /><br />I see a pile of them on the Scottish Government/Scottish Parliament website to do with changes in the law.Coincidentally all the representations say access to justice is the priority for solicitors (obviously a lie) because any reform or cut in legal aid that comes along is condemned and ends up in lawyers waving bits of cardboard in front of the High Court/Holyrood.<br /><br />What part of improving their clients position are all these false representations Mr Cockburn?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54337002678808838072014-03-06T17:26:36.662+00:002014-03-06T17:26:36.662+00:00More inclined to believe the panel rather than the...More inclined to believe the panel rather than the rant of Douglas Mill.<br /><br />Dishonesty is prevalent in the profession,everyone knows it and this is one of the main reasons that business has gone out the window along with reputations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-34470776376729669492014-03-06T09:48:17.197+00:002014-03-06T09:48:17.197+00:00After listening to the Chairman of the SSDT, Mr Co...After listening to the Chairman of the SSDT, Mr Cockburn on the BBC's programme about criminality in Scotland's Regulation framework, you can see the reason that so many dodgy lawyers have been let off?<br /><br />This is not rocket science but would it not be better to have a lawyer to actually chair this committee rather than an amateurish lay person otherwise justice will not be done?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-62229227363428780912014-03-05T21:46:29.989+00:002014-03-05T21:46:29.989+00:00Dishonesty is the word that most accurately descri...Dishonesty is the word that most accurately describes the Law Society and their pals at the SSDT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63465498429636771732014-03-04T20:23:21.925+00:002014-03-04T20:23:21.925+00:00Most complaints never made it to the ssdt anyway i...Most complaints never made it to the ssdt anyway if you look at the numbers of complaints - over a thousand a year and just a trickle of tribunal hearings.<br /><br />We all know where this is going - straight to crooked land and the ol slap on the wrist for one's precious colleagues to keep them in their jobs.<br /><br />It is a good thing these clips because their own boss and his comments on dishonesty confirm this tribunal set up has no credibility whatsoever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86936594351693956722014-03-04T13:58:43.877+00:002014-03-04T13:58:43.877+00:00Another one here with a complaint against the way ...Another one here with a complaint against the way the ssdt handled what was left of my complaint after the Law Society purposely messed it up will contact you with the detailsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-35435701820992326552014-03-04T12:37:04.069+00:002014-03-04T12:37:04.069+00:00Anonymous said...
An ex-colleague of mine on a loc...Anonymous said...<br />An ex-colleague of mine on a local newspaper went along to one of these SSDT hearings with the family who complained about their solicitor.<br />Although the family asked he be allowed in he was not and 4 months down the line after my editor took ear bashing from some shit at the Law Society who goes around calling himself a media lawyer my colleague was sacked from the paper for doing nothing other than asking a question about the result - it was a fine after family revealed the tribunal was told by solicitor's rep they may land in court if anything else.<br /><br />Was going to take the group to an unfair dismissal hearing - he could not get legal rep then someone who knows you stepped in offering possibility of a headline and there was a payoff to keep it all quiet.<br /><br />3 March 2014 16:26<br />8888888888888888<br /><br />More confirmation if confirmation was needed of criminal conduct in the unlawful protection of Scottish lawyers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com