tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post7609886838696958560..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Law Society to fight legal aid cuts on ‘access to justice’ ticket as Scots struggle to find law firms handling legal aid workUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-87704382676459065982010-06-03T01:31:59.432+01:002010-06-03T01:31:59.432+01:00Legal Aid is up as well as Legal Aid fraud I bet s...Legal Aid is up as well as Legal Aid fraud I bet so where's the cuts the Law Society are talking about ?<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10218545.stm<br /><br />Legal aid cases soar during the recession<br /><br />Civil legal aid applications have risen by 24% over the last year, reaching their highest level in a decade.<br /><br />The Scottish Legal Aid Board said financial pressures arising from the recession were likely to be at least partly responsible for the rise.<br /><br />Legal aid allows people who would otherwise not be able to afford it to get help for their legal problems.<br /><br />Among the 22,000 cases, there were a significant number of family, debt and mortgage rights cases.<br /><br />Lindsay Montgomery CBE, chief executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board, said: "It is clear that solicitors have responded to the larger number of people needing help during the recession as financial and other pressures increase on families.<br /><br />"This substantial increase in applications has been very challenging for the board, however we have managed to achieve our performance targets without any increase to our administrative budget."<br /><br />From 2008-2009 the total government expenditure on legal aid, legal advice and assistance was £42.6m.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-2103428601569821682010-06-01T22:59:45.275+01:002010-06-01T22:59:45.275+01:00Even if people in Scotland found a Solicitor to ta...Even if people in Scotland found a Solicitor to take a Legal Aid case against a crooked organisation, the Solicitor would make sure they lost the case, but win or loose they always get paid, take on a your case and make sure you loose it, thousands of cases like this in Scotland, I had a friend that paid a Advocate who was a QC. (QUEER CROOK) thousands of pounds to represent him in a case, he stated he had an excellent case, the other side then took his QC out to lunch, the QC stated he would loose the case, it was then transferred to Junior Council who went on to win the case, and got costs also in the action. See how they try and defeat someone in the Corrupt Legal Profession in Scotland. The Legal Profession works tirelessly for and with the crooks in Scotland and make sue they do not get exposed in our corrupt Courts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-80479255254176036622010-06-01T22:20:04.241+01:002010-06-01T22:20:04.241+01:00The Law Society of Scotland is the largest dishone...The Law Society of Scotland is the largest dishonest, incompetent and corrupt organisation in Scotland.<br />It saying that it is concerned about access to justice for he citizens of Scotland, this must be coming from one of the maroons in the Law Society of Scotland, it is the Law Society of Scotland that will not allow a Solicitors to take on cases against Solicitors that are responsible for aborting case for many clients, steal money and assets, instructing Solicitors not to take on the cases, or to help people with cases against organisations that have Solicitors and members of the Law Society working within them, they conspire with these Solicitors to stop, deny and refuse representation to these victims. access to the same justice they are shouting about, just weasel words from the bunch of crooks in the Law Society of Scotland.<br />The Law Society of Scotland spreads its tentacles into every part of Scottish Society, the Government, Local Authorities, Courts, Procurator Fiscals Offices,<br />Police, Medical Profession, Housing, Banks, Ombudsman's Offices, Criminal Compensation Board, they contaminate every profession with fraud and corruption, constantly denying them any representation. The Law Society of Scotland is the biggest denier of representation in Scotland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-88561717144695281272010-06-01T13:15:01.543+01:002010-06-01T13:15:01.543+01:00All that tripe from the Law Society yet I tried to...All that tripe from the Law Society yet I tried to get them to investigate my lawyer charging me fees while he was getting paid by the legal aid board for my case.They refused to investigate and I cant get an answer out of slab so its all a pack of lies.<br /><br />Might be a good idea to break open the legal aid payments as you suggest (brilliant idea) and let McKenzie Friends or other people qualified in law but not under the control of the Law Society get paid by slab to do the work instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-84278104591717623512010-05-31T23:00:33.101+01:002010-05-31T23:00:33.101+01:001st comment - yes its all about money and lawyers ...1st comment - yes its all about money and lawyers wanting to grab as much of it as possible.Absolutely nothing to do with justice at all because if there was any justice the first ones to get jailed would be the lawyers themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86422077280075278192010-05-31T17:19:52.954+01:002010-05-31T17:19:52.954+01:00Time and again it has been shown that unsrupulous ...Time and again it has been shown that unsrupulous lawyers are happy to use the Legal Board to boost their own 'earnings'.<br /><br />Given that solicitors are presently the only persons who can access these funds it is unsurprising they would wish to protect and maintain that monopoly.<br /><br />Politicians of all parties are likewise content to see clients and other interested parties remain denied any meaningful access to justice.<br /><br />A shameful situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54522006631901860322010-05-31T15:35:26.398+01:002010-05-31T15:35:26.398+01:00On the McKenzie Friend issue Lord Hamilton, you ha...On the McKenzie Friend issue Lord Hamilton, you have bowed to pressure, now you want to tie the McKenzie friends is any way to stop them operating, ie no fees payable, call them lay assistants so that people do not make the connection you have stopped Sots having the same rights to a McKenzie Friends as other countries citizens have. <br /><br />If Scots are too thick to understand that a McKenzie Friend is a courtroom assistant, how the hell can you have the same thick Scots deliberating the outcome in a murder trial? You Hamilton yet again demonstrate that people in powerful positions should be careful what they say and do. You sit on the bench in the High Court overseeing legal process with thick people picked at random to form a jury. What a fool you are Hamilton, a man of low intelligence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-72449983832410312622010-05-31T15:28:01.975+01:002010-05-31T15:28:01.975+01:00Law Society your lawyers will be losing money, thi...Law Society your lawyers will be losing money, this has nothing to do with access to justice. Everything to do with increasing lawyers profits. <br /><br />Great work Peter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com