tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post8808208342211392325..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Old Pals Act : MacAskill appoints SNP ‘leafleteer’ as Judicial Complaints Reviewer, Alex Salmond takes ex-Lord Advocates as Ministerial code advisersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66600483907031457372011-08-23T23:39:51.260+01:002011-08-23T23:39:51.260+01:00# Anonymous @ 23 August 2011 20:54
Sounds like a ...# Anonymous @ 23 August 2011 20:54<br /><br />Sounds like a story deserving of a headline ... although you might be better approaching a newspaper and one with a decent circulation which is not afraid of the legal establishment ...Diary of Injusticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697476580161690118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63347130332325732822011-08-23T20:54:34.706+01:002011-08-23T20:54:34.706+01:00Hmm
Very interesting about Moi Ali's campaign ...Hmm<br />Very interesting about Moi Ali's campaign to out perverts in the nhs.<br /><br />I wonder how she would fair up against the perverts in the judiciary?<br /><br />You know there is a journalist in Thailand who has pictures of a Scottish judge with a very young lad.Apparently this judge is well known for it.How about a headline?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-76814991018486476022011-08-22T20:29:23.801+01:002011-08-22T20:29:23.801+01:00The Westminster debate on Moi Ali's whistleblo...The Westminster debate on Moi Ali's whistleblowing was started by now convicted criminal expenses thief Jim Devine.You can read all about that one here : http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080716/halltext/80716h0009.htm<br /><br />I'd also like to ask why Westminster can debate paedo nurses in the nhs but they cant do anything about crooked lawyers or crooked judges..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9645219627519920442011-08-22T20:27:27.472+01:002011-08-22T20:27:27.472+01:00I've been meaning to post a comment for the pa...I've been meaning to post a comment for the past week so here goes.<br /><br />Moi Ali has been in the newspapers a few times over the subject of whistleblowing in the nhs.There was even a debate at Westminster over the issue she was involved in.<br /><br />She was apparenrly forced out of her job after doing the whistleblowing.<br /><br />My question is.What could a whistleblower hope to do in a position such as judicial complaints which is obviously a pat on the back exercise for the Scottish judges and their pals?<br /><br />Have a read of the following.It would be interesting to find out what some of these whistleblowers think of whistleblowers in the legal system but I kind of wonder if whistleblowing is fine for some but not fine for others if you get what I am saying..<br /><br />http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/06/29/nhs-whistleblower-moi-ali-forced-to-quit-over-nurse-row-78057-20624687/<br /><br />NHS whistleblower Moi Ali forced to quit over nurse row<br /><br />Jun 29 2008 By Marion Scott, Sunday Mail<br /><br />A WHISTLEBLOWER who exposed how paedophile nurses escape punishment has been forced out of two top jobs.<br /><br />Moi Ali last week resigned as a board member of NHS Lothian and vice president of nurses' regulatory body the Nursing & Midwifery Council.<br /><br />She was pressured to quit after revealing NMC's failure to strike off paedophile nurses in last week's Sunday Mail.<br /><br />Mum-of-two, Moi, 44, quit NHS Lothian after a meeting with chair Charles Winstanley - who is also "whistleblower contact" for postal watchdog Postwatch. Moi, of West Calder, West Lothian, said: "After my story appeared in the Sunday Mail, I was asked to meetMr Winstanley on Monday and he made it clearmy whistleblowing at theNMC impacted on my position.<br /><br />"Although he wasn't critical of my performance on the Lothian board, it was made clear there was no alternative but for me to tender my resignation."<br /><br />NMC spokesman Craig Turton said Moi's resignation decision "was entirely her own".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-7074847656517809622011-08-18T17:42:01.779+01:002011-08-18T17:42:01.779+01:00Interesting.
Not the kind of people I'd want t...Interesting.<br />Not the kind of people I'd want to be associated with although well I'm not into fiddling my expenses or lying my ass off to get votes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-48963736225853498432011-08-18T13:41:19.108+01:002011-08-18T13:41:19.108+01:00The charges were dropped against Fraser but not ag...The charges were dropped against Fraser but not against Jandoo who as I see you have already written about was convicted.<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4273555.stm<br /><br />The court also heard on Thursday from Mr Morrison's wife Margaret, who was with him on the flight from Edinburgh to Stornoway.<br /><br />She said that while on the plane, Dr Jandoo, who was speaking into his mobile phone, said in a loud voice: "These bloody repressed people up here, they are not used to seeing coloured people and they think I am a terrorist going to bomb their plane." <br /><br />During her evidence, Mrs Morrison said she would describe Dr Jandoo as being "coloured".<br /><br />Defence counsel Donald Findlay QC said to her: "I know that you did not mean it, but in saying that Raj Jandoo is coloured, do you realise that you have profoundly and deeply offended him and countless others?"<br /><br />"But I did not say it at the time," she replied.<br /><br />Mr Findlay said: "Raj Jandoo is not coloured, Raj Jandoo is black - he regards himself as a black man.<br /><br />"Raj Jandoo would no more describe himself as a nigger as he would as being coloured."<br /><br />Mrs Morrison then told the court that when she heard Dr Jandoo speaking on his mobile phone he could have used the word "black" as opposed to "coloured". <br /><br />Just another case of one law for some and one for another with an element of racism thrown in.Ironic he wrote up a report saying the Crown Office was not racist when we all know it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-89184360589116074202011-08-18T09:49:38.295+01:002011-08-18T09:49:38.295+01:00Look on the bright side Peter.
Whoever gets these...Look on the bright side Peter.<br /><br />Whoever gets these kinds of jobs the public perception is they cannot be trusted to do whatever it is in the public interest.Its all about protecting the people they are there to look at.Am I right folks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-66491061660941324602011-08-18T00:19:02.547+01:002011-08-18T00:19:02.547+01:00It was £75k for Swinney not 60!
http://www.herald...It was £75k for Swinney not 60!<br /><br />http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/swinney-makes-75k-out-of-home-sell-off-1.1117785<br /><br />Swinney makes £75k out of home sell-off<br /><br />Tom Gordon and Paul Hutcheon EXCLUSIVE<br /><br />16 Aug 2011<br /><br />FINANCE Secretary John Swinney is at the centre of a row over MSP perks after making a £75,000 gain from the sale of his taxpayer-funded second home.<br /><br />Swinney, who is cutting spending and imposing a two-year pay freeze in the public sector, recently sold his Edinburgh residence for £430,000, according to official records.<br /><br />He bought the four-bedroom apartment on one of the capital’s most desirable streets for £355,000 in December 2003 while SNP leader.<br /><br />At the time, the two-storey terraced property was the most expensive second home ever bought by an MSP.<br /><br />Mr Swinney, who earns £100,000 a year, used parliamentary allowances to pay the interest on his RBS mortgage, ultimately claiming more than £60,000 from the public purse.<br /><br />He also claimed around £10,000 to pay council tax for the Band G property on Morningside’s Hermitage Terrace.<br /><br />Only former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott used Holyrood expenses to maintain a more expensive second home after buying a £380,000 house in 2005.<br /><br />Mr Swinney, whose main home is in his North Tayside constituency, put the Edinburgh property on the market in June for “offers over £395,000”.<br /><br />The prospectus praised its “magnificent” 23-foot drawing room, private front garden, “delightful leafy outlook” over Blackford Hill to the rear. It was under offer within weeks.<br /><br />An application to record the final sale at £430,000 was made to Registers of Scotland on August 1. After capital gains tax, Mr Swinney made a profit of around £57,000.<br /><br />Announcing a Treasury-imposed £1.3 billion cut in public spending in February, the Cabinet Minister said he wanted to “help households facing pay restraint and ... increases in VAT and fuel prices”.<br /><br />However, he has also warned the public: “Hard choices must be made.”<br /><br />Mr Swinney’s gain on the property is one of the largest ever recorded by an MSP.<br /><br />The largest was made by fellow SNP minister Alex Neil, who made £105,505 before tax when he sold up last year, after billing taxpayers for more than £87,000 for mortgage interest, security, utilities, council tax, factoring and insurance on a two-bedroom flat over a decade.<br /><br />Mr Neil’s ministerial responsib-ilities at the time included affordable housing and homelessness.<br /><br />He and his wife had stumped up just £4720 for a deposit on the property.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-69948961761492145832011-08-17T23:55:08.820+01:002011-08-17T23:55:08.820+01:00Yes washing the dirt for Lord Hamilton and Salmond...Yes washing the dirt for Lord Hamilton and Salmond is all this stuff is good for and we all end up paying for it.<br /><br />Isnt it a bit like paying to be abused or something weird like that?Horrible really!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-59930595056225707792011-08-17T21:10:53.447+01:002011-08-17T21:10:53.447+01:00Very good Peter I saw this in the news and hoped y...Very good Peter I saw this in the news and hoped you would be writing about it.<br /><br />I for one am very happy to see the SNP are now just as crooked as the rest of the political parties in who they shove into these kind of pat on the back posts.What hope I had their new membership would sweep away the control freakery of the gang at the top is fast ebbing away!<br /><br />I also liked the one about the SNP leafleteer getting the justice job.I know someone who leafleted for an SNP MSP and she was told there wasnt enough money to pay for her petrol expenses delivering the leaflets so it just goes to show its who you know not what you do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-44100927482470501862011-08-17T20:23:31.638+01:002011-08-17T20:23:31.638+01:00With their famous backgrounds all over the interne...With their famous backgrounds all over the internet I wont be expecting any dissent on complaints against Salmond!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-40987191149401740002011-08-17T19:55:58.919+01:002011-08-17T19:55:58.919+01:005 jobs for someone isnt enough these days they nee...5 jobs for someone isnt enough these days they need more (paid for by taxpayers)<br /><br />DisgustingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-76124967613930658832011-08-17T19:37:39.896+01:002011-08-17T19:37:39.896+01:00You scratch my back...You scratch my back...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-29925656124746510332011-08-17T19:18:49.503+01:002011-08-17T19:18:49.503+01:00"Judicial Complaints Reviewer"
What doe..."Judicial Complaints Reviewer"<br /><br />What does this job entail?<br />Wash the dishes for Lord Hamilton and [wannabe]Lord MacAskill?<br /><br />HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-31659519332756692102011-08-17T18:27:36.475+01:002011-08-17T18:27:36.475+01:00I seem to remember lots of idiots saying under the...I seem to remember lots of idiots saying under the SNP all this jobs for the boys and complaints corruption would be stopped.It has only got worse.Much worse.Nothing has changed and I doubt anything will ever change.Is it any wonder people find ways to bypass crooked complaints regimes and deal with their issues as they see fit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-50401617447662691782011-08-17T15:11:20.454+01:002011-08-17T15:11:20.454+01:00The Ministerial Code is nothing but a joke.Ask any...The Ministerial Code is nothing but a joke.Ask any free thinking uncivil serpent if you can find one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-3453539729216784822011-08-17T14:32:09.017+01:002011-08-17T14:32:09.017+01:00Both positions (Ministerial code and Judicial Comp...Both positions (Ministerial code and Judicial Complaints) offer no transparency to the public whatsoever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-22982619273185892072011-08-17T10:53:13.000+01:002011-08-17T10:53:13.000+01:00All these appointments appear heavily compromised ...All these appointments appear heavily compromised which is why they probably got the jobs.Who vetted them other than Salmond & MacAskill?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-91174810881450107642011-08-17T00:39:51.525+01:002011-08-17T00:39:51.525+01:00I have no believe in any politician now they are a...I have no believe in any politician now they are all the same.No one can claim the SNP are better than anyone else.Worse maybe with the pretence of Scotland plastered all over them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-67810017187857422182011-08-16T23:40:29.175+01:002011-08-16T23:40:29.175+01:00The "S" in SNP must stand for "Self...The "S" in SNP must stand for "Selfish" and not "Scotland".<br /><br />Also your friend John Swinney was squirming on Newsnight Scotland tonight trying to wriggle out of admitting to a 60,000 gain for selling a property funded by mortgage payments from taxpayers.Yes,Mr Swinney was finally at a loss for words and had to rely on the same old same old excuses it was all down to the Scottish Parliament deciding to allow msps to buy properties in Edinburgh at taxpayer expense.<br /><br />I dont believe anyone any more from that horrible Holyrood they are all the same all in it for themselves and stuff the rest of us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-8689589821760907202011-08-16T23:07:59.071+01:002011-08-16T23:07:59.071+01:00The whole system is corrupt it doesnt matter which...The whole system is corrupt it doesnt matter which political party is in charge.Salmond MacAskill are just like the rest only have their own interests in mind and bugger the rest of us as you can see here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-60208021599977385932011-08-16T22:18:32.674+01:002011-08-16T22:18:32.674+01:00Anonymous said...
With reference to the lady who ...Anonymous said...<br /><br />With reference to the lady who was stopped in the street by two lawyers touting for busines in Hamilton. The same thing was going on in Dundee where my mother and father were stopped and the very same thing happened have you heard of Diary of injustice in scotland and just like the lady said no was the answer but the body language said yes. Absolutely brilliant keep up the good work.<br />---------------------------------<br />Yes Peter you are doing a brilliant job, and make no mistake they all know about your blog, the Law Society SLCC will have seen to that. <br /><br />Incidently the lady in question said they told her they did not know any dishonest lawyers. These people just cannot be reached they are as blinkered as hell. <br /><br />Are there any other members of the public been stopped by lawyers in other towns? The word is getting out how rotten and evil this profession are. <br /><br />If I see them in the street I will be warning people they talk to, that would be a wonderful pastime telling people about all the internet sites the legal profession don't know about. We believe them dont we?THERE ARE NO HONEST LAWYERSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-10554074826855275272011-08-16T22:00:28.187+01:002011-08-16T22:00:28.187+01:00"Moi is a Governor at Edinburgh Napier Univer..."Moi is a Governor at Edinburgh Napier University and a Public Appointments Ambassador for the Cabinet Office, which involves encouraging a more diverse range of applicants for public appointments. She is also a member of the Scottish Ambulance Service Board with a remuneration of £8,008 per annum. Moi brings a strong background in complaints handling and commitment to improving standards in public life to the post of Judicial Complaints Reviewer."<br /><br />Never heard of her before now.<br /><br />So on top of all those jobs she already has MacAskill gives her another one at £209 a day to sift through complaints about judges.<br /><br />And they say we are better off under the SNP?Get a fugging life Kenny instead of leeching off the rest of us for your schemes to give jobs to your buddies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-28090954912243049482011-08-16T21:36:19.408+01:002011-08-16T21:36:19.408+01:00Good ending Peter about Steel and the Countryside ...Good ending Peter about Steel and the Countryside Alliance scandal.<br /><br />They obviously knew all this about him so why give him a complaints role anyway?<br /><br />Shameful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9849583920180904432011-08-16T21:18:22.019+01:002011-08-16T21:18:22.019+01:00http://www.thelawyer.com/law-soc-loses-patience-wi...http://www.thelawyer.com/law-soc-loses-patience-with-solicitors-from-hell-website/1008957.article<br /><br />The Law Society has given Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowski until 2 September to remove his website from the internet otherwise it will take High Court action against him for defamation, harassment and breach of the Data Protection Act. HERE AGAIN WE SEE LAWYERS PROTECTING LAWYERS, AND USING THE SYSTEM TO PROTECT THEIR VESTED INTERESTS. <br /><br />Kordowski, who has been on the losing side of several High Court defamation cases from solicitors named on his site, said he is committed to his cause.<br /><br />The Law Society first mooted legal action against Kordowski in May (11 May 2011) after High Court judge Mr Justice Henrique said that both the Law Society and Bar Council should investigate defamation complaints about the website (18 April 2010).<br /><br />The website claims to give consumers a forum to publicly name and shame solicitors who they feel have provided a poor service.<br /><br />The legal body has now instructed Brett Wilson to lead action against Kordowski on behalf of the entire legal profession. Its aim is to have the site taken down and stop Kordowski from relaunching it in another guise.<br /><br />In a letter of claim sent to Kordowski the firm states: “You’ve forced a number of firms and lawyers to resort to costly litigation in order to protect their reputations. (YES LAWYERS CAN WIN LITIGATION BUT CLIENTS ARE TREATED LIKE S**T). The irrecoverable cost of such litigation is prohibitive for many firms and lawyers.”<br /><br />It continues: “It’s fair to say that the website in its current form serves no legitimate purpose and simply provides individuals who have ’axes to grind’ a means to seek to damage the reputation of lawyers (and other individuals) against whom they hold grudges, and for you to attempt to generate revenue.” LAWYERS WILL NEVER LEARN, I URGE ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST NO LAWYER.<br /><br />Should Kordowski refuse to take the site down, the letter states, the Law Society will attempt to secure a High Court injunction forcing him to. I HOPE MANY OTHERS SET UP WEBSITES AGAINST THESE LAWYER CRIMINALS, GOOD ON YOU RICK, I COULD NOT GET LEGAL REPRESENTATION AGAINST MY CROOKED LAWYER. <br /><br />In a statement Kordowksi said: “I deny all the allegations set out. I find it outrageous that, on the one hand, The Law Society are taking action against me on behalf of all 150,000 solicitors in England and Wales. A CLASS ACTION 150,000 TO 1, THEY WANT IT SHUT DOWN BECAUSE THEY ARE CORRUPT AND THE SITE IS WARNING THE PUBLIC. <br /><br />“And on the other hand, they’re funding the Legal Ombudsman to the tune of over £20m per year who in the last six months received 38,155 complaints, of which a massive 90 per cent were rejected.<br /><br />“Does the profession really have that much to hide? THEY ARE RUTHLESS CRIMINALS RICK AND WE APPLAUD YOUR TENACITY. <br /><br />“These costs are ultimately paid for by solicitors in the form of practising certificates. Yet the Law Society totally ’rejected’ my suggestion to work together to expose wrongdoing, where it exists, for the sake of decent lawyers in the profession.”<br /><br />THAT IS BECAUSE THERE ARE NO DECENT LAWYERS RICK. <br />Kordowski has instructed Cloisters’ Jonathan Crystal to represent him on a pro-bono basis.SUPPORT SOLICITORS FROM HELLnoreply@blogger.com