tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post880840382797610880..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Lawyers FOI secrecy feud with regulator wrecks £10K ‘Complaints Handling Research’ as 75% of solicitors, advocates refuse to disclose client complaint statisticsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-18676113838695160202013-02-19T00:33:18.537+00:002013-02-19T00:33:18.537+00:00Catch me if you can said...
Yes I did lie on my q...Catch me if you can said...<br /><br />Yes I did lie on my questionnaire and neither you or the SLCC can do anything about it.<br /><br />Neither the SLCC or any client have the right to know how my firm handle complaints. If clients are dissatisfied with us and refuse to see sense they are within their current rights to go to the SLCC and make a complaint to them. We are within our rights to defend ourselves against any complaints or troublemakers.<br />=================================<br />You are a nutter, and you just cannot get into your thick skulls this bad Kharma will come back on you. Here is how to deal with this type of p**k folks. I would print 1000 leaflets, "bloggs solicitors Falkirk stealing mortgage money" as long as its true. If enough clients do that are you going to take hundreds to court? <br /><br />The way to expose lawyers is to bypass your Law Society, SLCC. You creeps can only self regulate if your clients play into your creepy self protecting complaints system. 1000 leaflets in the town your lawyer works in folks, this is how you take the smug arrogant expression off your lawyers face. Don't report your lawyers because you will participate in the inevitable coverup if you do. Reporting your lawyer is like framing yourself. They want you to complain to them. THAT GIVES THEM THE CONTROL.<br /><br />Adios lawyers, Catch clients distributing leaflets where you work, if you can. W****rs.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45972517845193732832013-02-18T18:23:28.342+00:002013-02-18T18:23:28.342+00:00 Anonymous said...
Given the way the SLCC handled ... Anonymous said...<br />Given the way the SLCC handled this how can we trust any complaints statistics or info they release?<br /><br />For all we know complaints could be nearly 4000 a year and they are just massaging the figures and anyway if you think about it there are nearly 10,000 solicitors in Scotland so the Law Society always say and we hardly ever hear about them from the SLCC or anyone else except this blog!<br /><br />18 February 2013 10:37<br />/////////////(//(////(/(///(/(////////<br /><br />The truth is that the numbers of dodgy lawyers reported to the SLCC could be measured in the dozens such is the mistrust of the SLCC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-65071438257542586652013-02-18T18:18:19.934+00:002013-02-18T18:18:19.934+00:00Is it true that when Scotland was asked to put for...Is it true that when Scotland was asked to put forward an honest judge to serve as a member of the International Court, they had to decline the invitation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-71991124689411199912013-02-18T17:55:43.742+00:002013-02-18T17:55:43.742+00:00 Anonymous said...
http://www.ssdt.org.uk/findings... Anonymous said...<br />http://www.ssdt.org.uk/findings/finding_item.asp?LTfindingID=541<br /><br /><br />Edinburgh 23 October 2012; The Tribunal having considered the Appeal by Cameron Fyfe, Drummond Miller, Solicitors, 65 Bath Street, Glasgow (“the Appellant”) against a finding of Inadequate Professional Service by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland (“the Law Society”) in relation to Mr A (“the Lay Complainer”) in respect of a complaint by the Lay Complainer against the former firm of Ross Harper and a Direction that: (1) the fees and VAT to which the former firm was entitled shall be nil; (2) the firm be required to refund all fees and VAT paid by the Lay Complainer; and (3) the firm be required to pay the sum of £1500 compensation to the Lay Complainer; Find that the service provided to the Lay Complainer in respect of both issues 1 and 2 did amount to an Inadequate Professional Service; Refuse the Appeal and Confirm the Determination and Direction made by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland in respect of both issues; Find the Appellant liable in the expenses of the Law Society and of the Tribunal including the expenses of the Clerk, chargeable on a time and line basis as the same maybe taxed by the Auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client, client paying basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £14.00; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Appellant.<br /><br />Alistair Cockburn<br />Chairman<br /><br />17 February 2013 22:23<br />---------------------------------<br /><br />CROOK?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-21720861121767015272013-02-18T10:37:10.522+00:002013-02-18T10:37:10.522+00:00Given the way the SLCC handled this how can we tru...Given the way the SLCC handled this how can we trust any complaints statistics or info they release?<br /><br />For all we know complaints could be nearly 4000 a year and they are just massaging the figures and anyway if you think about it there are nearly 10,000 solicitors in Scotland so the Law Society always say and we hardly ever hear about them from the SLCC or anyone else except this blog!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-48780979190294902862013-02-18T10:34:02.506+00:002013-02-18T10:34:02.506+00:00And where are the expressions from Which Magazine ...And where are the expressions from Which Magazine and Consumer Focus Scotland regarding this and your previous report?<br /><br />As usual another deafening silence from both who are clearly a waste of space.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-29991669483325213692013-02-17T22:58:05.853+00:002013-02-17T22:58:05.853+00:00'Lawyers FOI secrecy feud with regulator'
...'Lawyers FOI secrecy feud with regulator'<br /><br />Phoney bone of contention, if I ever heard one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39572705471649420692013-02-17T22:55:20.677+00:002013-02-17T22:55:20.677+00:00Is there only one guy left at the SLCC?Is there only one guy left at the SLCC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-39894656918580661402013-02-17T22:53:50.281+00:002013-02-17T22:53:50.281+00:00I do not understand how the Law Society's SLCC...I do not understand how the Law Society's SLCC can still be operating?<br /><br />I thought that their doorway was bricked up months ago, due to the fraud they are perpetrating against the Scottish People?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-53299629405446514462013-02-17T22:48:46.849+00:002013-02-17T22:48:46.849+00:00Try this one for size:
A Doctor is negligent, and...Try this one for size:<br /><br />A Doctor is negligent, and allows your family member to die.<br /><br />You engage lawyers to sue the Doctor & the local Health Authority for negligence.<br /><br />But unbeknown to you, your lawyer is insured by the same insurers, who insure the Health Authority, and possibly even the Doctor ... How about that ?<br /><br />This conflict of interest insures that even when patients have died no damages are payable.<br /><br />Medical consultants have Legal Privilege as expert witnesses (this means they cannot be sued for giving an expert opinion).<br /><br />If a doctor has been negligent and killed a patient is the Medical Consultant expert witness going to blame that doctor?<br /><br />Your litigation lawyer is insured by the same company as these doctors.<br /><br />They will milk legal aid, a cover up will then happen and the negligent doctor is in the clear and so are the insurers.<br /><br />I hope no one ends up in this position because in my opinion these people are simply evil.<br /><br />THIS SET UP WILL BE THE SAME INTERNATIONALLY.<br /><br />15 February 2013 21:47<br />."'c,CDC,c,McCain,c,c,mc<br /><br />A sweet deal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-30528059993735059922013-02-17T22:45:55.584+00:002013-02-17T22:45:55.584+00:00Anonymous said...
My boss has been watching your b... Anonymous said...<br />My boss has been watching your blog for nearly three weeks to see if you were going to publish this report!We are probably going to be moaned at all next week but I don't care as he hasn't paid our salaries in two months and the Law Society has not taken any action even after one of my colleagues alerted them to our "cash flow problems"<br /><br />15 February 2013 21:38<br />::::::::::::(:;:(:):):)/)-(-(:;:(:):£<br /><br />Name and shame the ££ucker?<br /><br />The one thing you can be sure of is that the partners of the firm will be getting paid in full, to leave the rest of you unpaid & if they are on their buffers then you can also be sure that they will have committed fraud by stealing from their clients?<br /><br />Oh, for your boss (Borrowing Without Consent)!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-3252904709137325142013-02-17T22:42:14.778+00:002013-02-17T22:42:14.778+00:00 Catch me if you can said...
Yes I did lie on my q... Catch me if you can said...<br />Yes I did lie on my questionnaire and neither you or the SLCC can do anything about it.<br />Neither the SLCC or any client have the right to know how my firm handle complaints.If clients are dissatisfied with us and refuse to see sense they are within their current rights to go to the SLCC and make a complaint to them.We are within our rights to defend ourselves against any complaints or troublemakers.<br /><br />15 February 2013 19:23<br />//////////////////////////////////////////<br /><br />Awe, poor spoiled brat....<br /><br />And it just so happens that the SLCC is run and operated by the Law Society of Scotland?<br /><br />How convenient?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-4070250131845244362013-02-17T22:40:02.255+00:002013-02-17T22:40:02.255+00:00Anonymous said...
The Law Society hate a Diary of ... Anonymous said...<br />The Law Society hate a Diary of Injustice in Scotland because Peter and the DOI team are telling us the truth. Tell everyone you know to read this blog for their own good. <br /><br />DOI your usual thorough effort, great journalism.<br /><br />15 February 2013 19:16<br />--------------------------------<br /><br />C'mon People forward this website onto everyone in your FaceBook list and post it on every single notice board you can find?<br /><br />The truth will out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-33373873013477623812013-02-17T22:37:48.232+00:002013-02-17T22:37:48.232+00:00Anonymous said...
75% of solicitors, advocates ref... Anonymous said...<br />75% of solicitors, advocates refuse to disclose client complaint statistics. So just like Lord Brian Gill they don't want us to know anything which is a revelation as to how corrupt they really are. Gill is no reformer, he is as anti client as the rest your last report proved that. How people can trust these mendacious self protecting maggots is beyond me but sometimes the public have no choice.<br /><br />15 February 2013 18:28<br />()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()();(<br /><br />The reason Scotland has so many crooked Scottish lawyers is precisely because there has been ZERO regulation of Scottish lawyers for far too long and there is no incentive for a Scottish lawyer to obey the law or indeed have any care at all for their clients best interests?<br /><br />They view their clients as CASH TREES, to be pruned of £50 pound notes as and when they see fit and consider their clients money to be their right of enrichment?<br /><br />When a Scottish lawyer IS forced into the SSDT (Scottish Lawyers Lunch Club) or the SLCC (the Scottish lawyers supper club) say for example stealing their clients money then they get told they were 'BORROWING WITHOUT CONSENT' are let off to continue business as usual?<br /><br />Quite possibly the most corrupt small country in the world?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-49155024760852752712013-02-17T22:30:29.188+00:002013-02-17T22:30:29.188+00:00Anonymous said...
There is no complaints system, d... Anonymous said...<br />There is no complaints system, don't be so gullible to fall for that one. <br /><br />15 February 2013 18:05<br />zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz<br /><br />The SLCC is nothing other than a punishment of the Scottish People for having the temerity to think that they could end Scottish lawyers being above the law?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-68530358133903076552013-02-17T22:27:58.752+00:002013-02-17T22:27:58.752+00:00Anonymous said...
Mr Keen said : “The Faculty of A... Anonymous said...<br />Mr Keen said : “The Faculty of Advocates takes its responsibility for complaints handling extremely seriously and notes from the report that the level of complaints to new cases is "undoubtedly low." The Faculty will study the report and engage with the SLCC in taking forward a number of broad themes that have been identified.”<br />---------------------------------<br />More bullshit spin.<br /><br />15 February 2013 17:57<br />????????????????????<br /><br />This response is COMEDY GOLD, trying to pass off low numbers of reported cases of client victims to the SLCC as 'evidence' that there is nothing to find here, please move along....when the reality is that client victims are not reporting their crooked Scottish lawyer to the SLCC because they have finally realised that the SLCC is nothing other than an attempted 'trick' on the People of Scotland to make them 'think' that the MSP's were bringing in legislation that was finally going to curtain Scotland's crooked lawyers when all the SLCC was instituted to do was to try to CHANGE THE PERCEPTION of the Scottish Public, so that they would think that they were getting justice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-55324474520369853172013-02-17T22:23:13.540+00:002013-02-17T22:23:13.540+00:00http://www.ssdt.org.uk/findings/finding_item.asp?L...http://www.ssdt.org.uk/findings/finding_item.asp?LTfindingID=541<br /><br /> <br />Edinburgh 23 October 2012; The Tribunal having considered the Appeal by Cameron Fyfe, Drummond Miller, Solicitors, 65 Bath Street, Glasgow (“the Appellant”) against a finding of Inadequate Professional Service by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland (“the Law Society”) in relation to Mr A (“the Lay Complainer”) in respect of a complaint by the Lay Complainer against the former firm of Ross Harper and a Direction that: (1) the fees and VAT to which the former firm was entitled shall be nil; (2) the firm be required to refund all fees and VAT paid by the Lay Complainer; and (3) the firm be required to pay the sum of £1500 compensation to the Lay Complainer; Find that the service provided to the Lay Complainer in respect of both issues 1 and 2 did amount to an Inadequate Professional Service; Refuse the Appeal and Confirm the Determination and Direction made by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland in respect of both issues; Find the Appellant liable in the expenses of the Law Society and of the Tribunal including the expenses of the Clerk, chargeable on a time and line basis as the same maybe taxed by the Auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client, client paying basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £14.00; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Appellant.<br /><br />Alistair Cockburn<br />ChairmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-82495486338981705682013-02-17T22:20:09.179+00:002013-02-17T22:20:09.179+00:00Anonymous said...
I imagine the interviewers are s... Anonymous said...<br />I imagine the interviewers are savvy enough to know these lawyers are "Lying Thieving Bastards" and anything they say is therefore to be taken as a lie.After all this is what lawyers present themselves to the world as - born liars.If in doubt lie,isnt this the case Mr Yelland and co at the Law Society who put everyone through sheer hell for years and get away with it in the name of protecting lawyers!<br /><br />15 February 2013 16:31<br />ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt<br /><br />It is cruel to tease a Scottish lawyer by asking them a question that does not compute.....the reality is, those at Castle Greyscull forgot what the difference between truth and lies was a loooooooooong time ago?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-64576370817317634352013-02-17T22:11:56.342+00:002013-02-17T22:11:56.342+00:00 Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
I just do no... Anonymous said...<br />Anonymous said...<br /><br />I just do not understand!<br /><br />Why do the police not go in and arrest these crooks? Answer the Crown Office control the Police.<br /><br />If they did so, they would be lauded by the public and their job would be safe for life and at the same time they would be ridding Scotland of the cancer in her bones? Chief Police officers must agree with the lawyers.<br /><br />If Gill is refusing to be part of the solution then he is most definitely part of the problem? Gill does not care about judicial crimes, he is a lawyer and his belief is that lawyers are important and the public unimportant. The Police can only deal with Gill and his network if they break the chain of command. As long as these creeps who dominate by secrecy and control the Police their power remains intact. <br /><br />Here is the truth. Lawyers are a confederacy of deceivers whose aim is not to provide legal services, but in fact to dominate and abuse the public as they see fit, and then dominate the complaints system to crush the public who dare to complain. If justice was the main criterion lawyers and their sympathizers would not be allowed within the complaints process. They are an organized crime gang.<br /><br />15 February 2013 16:12<br />wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww<br /><br />Here hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61535104491275140342013-02-17T22:11:09.232+00:002013-02-17T22:11:09.232+00:00Anonymous said...
I just clicked on one of your li...Anonymous said...<br />I just clicked on one of your links (The FOI response) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3y3fRjsv8Y7OEJQMmJZNW92M3M/edit?pli=1 to find a set of documents with Rosemary Agnew's name on them.<br /><br />She is the current Scottish Information Commissioner?<br /><br />Well if there was and seems to have been an agreement with the SLCC to avoid handling the data to escape Freedom of Information requests then what has Rosemary Agnew as Scottish Information Commissioner got to say about this? and more to the point why is her name even associated with the SLCC's activities to avoid FOI?<br /><br />Surely this is not the kind of conduct an independent regulator such as the SLCC presents itself to be is expected to engage in?<br /><br />Surely Mrs Agnew must now come out and condemn the SLCC's attempt to keep complaints information from the public (even if it is probably fabricated).<br /><br />This really beggars belief and all allowed to happen at the expense of clients.<br /><br />15 February 2013 14:39<br />eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee<br /><br />Sir, may I respectfully point out some implausible assumptions you seem to have inadvertently made regarding the SLCC......?<br /><br />They are neither INDEPENDENT, nor are they a REGULATOR OF SCOTTISH LAWYERS?<br /><br />Who remain criminals at large as they are considered to be above the law?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-53821295209843637432013-02-17T22:01:45.275+00:002013-02-17T22:01:45.275+00:00 Anonymous said...
Did anyone ever expect liwyers ... Anonymous said...<br />Did anyone ever expect liwyers to tell the truth when asked about complaints?!<br /><br />15 February 2013 14:49<br />--------------------------------<br /><br />After all Scottish lawyers are professional liars, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63827860837670672392013-02-17T22:00:14.893+00:002013-02-17T22:00:14.893+00:00Anonymous said...
I just clicked on one of your li...<br /> Anonymous said...<br />I just clicked on one of your links (The FOI response) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3y3fRjsv8Y7OEJQMmJZNW92M3M/edit?pli=1 to find a set of documents with Rosemary Agnew's name on them.<br /><br />She is the current Scottish Information Commissioner?<br /><br />Well if there was and seems to have been an agreement with the SLCC to avoid handling the data to escape Freedom of Information requests then what has Rosemary Agnew as Scottish Information Commissioner got to say about this? and more to the point why is her name even associated with the SLCC's activities to avoid FOI?<br /><br />Surely this is not the kind of conduct an independent regulator such as the SLCC presents itself to be is expected to engage in?<br /><br />Surely Mrs Agnew must now come out and condemn the SLCC's attempt to keep complaints information from the public (even if it is probably fabricated).<br /><br />This really beggars belief and all allowed to happen at the expense of clients.<br /><br />15 February 2013 14:39<br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br />C'mon my friend......join up the dots.......Why do you think that our Rosemary was parachuted into the Freedom of Information Officer's job from the terminally wounded and discredited SLCC?<br /><br />The clue?<br /><br />Remember, as head of the SLCC our Rosemary defied the former FOI Commissioner multiple times to protect her employers at the Law Society of Scotland?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-14331877133488908402013-02-17T21:50:27.096+00:002013-02-17T21:50:27.096+00:00I thought that this tarnished organisation had shu...I thought that this tarnished organisation had shut months ago?<br /><br />What the hell is going on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-63645710729988256182013-02-17T18:58:20.022+00:002013-02-17T18:58:20.022+00:00Well pointed out as usual Peter - Any regulator do...Well pointed out as usual Peter - Any regulator doing secret deals with info to stop the media or public getting at the truth is not a regulator at all - it is a shower of crooks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-86855181504585002872013-02-17T16:30:07.924+00:002013-02-17T16:30:07.924+00:00A group that attract this much dissent and crush w...A group that attract this much dissent and crush web sites who expose their crimes by calling the [true posts] "harassment" must be a rotten criminal gang. If people's complaints were taken seriously Judge Tugendhat would not have had to take draconian measures against freedom of expression. Lawyers want their own [freedom to ruin and get away with it], and this is a form of tyranny. Trust no lawyer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com