tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post9070711863794430343..comments2024-03-24T23:01:57.640+00:00Comments on The Justice Diaries: Register of judicial interests 'good for judiciary and good for public' says Judicial Complaints Reviewer in written evidence to Scottish Parliament Public Petitions CommitteeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-77470988362116545302014-05-16T22:36:01.370+01:002014-05-16T22:36:01.370+01:00Anonymous said...
I think this should be extended...Anonymous said...<br /><br />I think this should be extended to all law firms because they take on cases knowing they have shares etc in insurance companies. Law firms may also have shares in employers businesses.<br />8 May 2014 19:27<br /><br />They mostly do and never tell you.If people woke up instead of walking into a lawyers office and wasting their money/life then this cycle will come to an end.<br /><br />13 May 2014 15:22<br />-----------------------------------<br />Using a Scottish lawyer is synonymous with wiping your bottom with £100 notes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-80681873304821472572014-05-13T15:22:21.267+01:002014-05-13T15:22:21.267+01:00 Anonymous said...
I think this should be ext... Anonymous said...<br /><br /> I think this should be extended to all law firms because they take on cases knowing they have shares etc in insurance companies. Law firms may also have shares in employers businesses.<br />8 May 2014 19:27<br /><br />They mostly do and never tell you.If people woke up instead of walking into a lawyers office and wasting their money/life then this cycle will come to an end.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-78937868977854903172014-05-12T23:20:05.882+01:002014-05-12T23:20:05.882+01:00I wonder what goes through someone's mind when...I wonder what goes through someone's mind when they decide that they want to become a Scottish lawyer?<br /><br />They must think either that they are doing it through greed and to have power over others or because they passionately believe they can make a positive change in the World?<br /><br />We all know which type the Law Society of Scotland promote and protect through all of their unlawful processes?<br /><br />I wonder what happens to all the good guys after they get spat out of the system for trying to do good?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-54465267068530498362014-05-12T13:33:15.934+01:002014-05-12T13:33:15.934+01:00Once again we have Moi Ali to thank for championin...Once again we have Moi Ali to thank for championing transparency and justice over secrecy and corruption?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-15103314033352202962014-05-12T11:00:34.050+01:002014-05-12T11:00:34.050+01:00I see that Dundas and Wilson are the latest scotti...I see that Dundas and Wilson are the latest scottish law firm to take part in a merger, as reported at;<br /><br />http://www.casecheck.co.uk/GeneralArticle1.aspx?article=Dundas++Wilson+Becomes+Part+of+CMS%202368Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-89047549145846699862014-05-12T10:03:21.855+01:002014-05-12T10:03:21.855+01:00Well I fully agree judges must declare their inter...Well I fully agree judges must declare their interests and to be honest I always thought they had to.Congrats to your petition and the headlines for making us aware of all this corruption in the judiciary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-61042412063006698452014-05-11T20:22:48.357+01:002014-05-11T20:22:48.357+01:00I wish that Moi Ali was given overall control to c...I wish that Moi Ali was given overall control to clean-up the scandal and corruption at the The Crown Office and within the Scottish Judiciary?<br /><br />This way, Justice will be served?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-37680521786828163862014-05-11T13:59:04.813+01:002014-05-11T13:59:04.813+01:00The Whole of Scotland is very lucky to have the pa...The Whole of Scotland is very lucky to have the patriotic and thoroughly professional Ms Moi Ali to warn us all that the Judges are not fulfilling their job requirements and that their behaviour and conduct is unbefitting of a competent Judge and that emergency action is urgently required to sort Scotland's Judiciary out and to stop their sordid little self serving carve-up of the Justice System?<br /><br />As an eminent QC said on Radio Scotland, "I have no doubts at all about having a conscience for getting a Client off, who I know is guilty of murder, rape etc because of all of the miscarriages of justice that are commonplace in the Scottish Courts" !<br /><br />It is widely accepted that anything involving Scottish Lawyers/ Judges/ Sheriffs is almost certainly corrupt but they have been getting away with being above the law for too long?<br /><br />Of course one of the reasons Scottish Lawyers are above the law is the Law Society of Scotland is far too powerful and that Scottish Police are not allowed to investigate lawyers/ Crown Office Staff/ Judges & Sheriffs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-9837951824698040792014-05-11T10:26:28.969+01:002014-05-11T10:26:28.969+01:00MacAskill must be sacked over his part in trying t...MacAskill must be sacked over his part in trying to cover-up this corruption?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-57944362590670070782014-05-11T10:25:11.953+01:002014-05-11T10:25:11.953+01:00All you need to witness is that Scottish Judges ar...All you need to witness is that Scottish Judges are refusing to accept accountability for their decisions and are wedded to secrecy and lack of transparency?<br /><br />Is this consistent with the standard required to Judge?<br /><br />What possible excuse can they come up with to explain their conduct, which is against the Public Interest?<br /><br />If they are not part of the solution they are definitely part of the problem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-38357589033121305352014-05-10T23:23:07.761+01:002014-05-10T23:23:07.761+01:00Mr Gill and his cronies are a confederacy of decei...Mr Gill and his cronies are a confederacy of deceivers who claim to be honest but have no concrete way of proving it, and clearly believe they should not have to. And because of this fact how can they be fit to do the jobs they do? <br /><br />Salmond, MacAskill and Sturgeon Gill's and the Law Society's stooges. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-25624263564225396482014-05-10T20:32:02.011+01:002014-05-10T20:32:02.011+01:00It is simply incredulous for a Scottish Judge or S...It is simply incredulous for a Scottish Judge or Scottish Sheriff to think it is alright for them to have numerous shares in business, when it is predominantly businesses who use the Courts?<br /><br />This is an astonishing and apparently deliberate abandonment of their duty to be fair and impartial?<br /><br />They have dismissed their duty as a Judge in favour of pursuing their own cash enrichment and as such have ruled themselves out of being a Judge and should be sacked for bringing the Office of Judge into disrepute?<br /><br />When did these creeps decide to stop being Judges?<br /><br />How long have these sharp-practises being going on for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-71122984994734633262014-05-10T20:15:43.489+01:002014-05-10T20:15:43.489+01:00Good on you Ms Moi Ali for not being bullied by th...Good on you Ms Moi Ali for not being bullied by these fiends?<br /><br />Ms Moi Ali's expert witness evidence clearly shows that the judicial oath and the Statement of Principles of Judicial Ethics in Scotland is not worth the paper it is written on and consequently Scotland is a sham country and certainly not a Democracy because it's Judges and Sheriffs have twisted the law of the land, so that they and their flunky's are above the law?<br /><br />The Scottish Judges have spoken through their Chief NONO and are resisting the main principle of their job as a Judge, which is to be accountable to the People?<br /><br />It is now clear to all in Scotland that the Scottish Judges & Sheriffs have not been answerable to the People of Scotland for some time and they do not intend to do so because they are stuffing their pockets with cash?<br /><br />These Judges & Sheriffs have caused so much damage to the Judicial System that It has reached the time where they should be sacked forthwith and have all of their cases investigated to see how many incidences they should have recused themselves but they didn't be ause they were deliberately and wilfully favouring one side against the other in Court?<br /><br />Only then will the truth come out as to how serious and widespread the corruption has been?<br /><br />Ms Moi Ali is highlighting that many people who should know better have acted unlawfully to allow this corruption to exist, including the opinion for sale MacAskill, who Ms Moi Ali has 'outed' for backing-up the Judges & Sheriffs beyond all reason or excuse, which is such a dereliction of duty that he should be sacked from his post as being wholly unfit and for being a traitor to the Scottish People?<br /><br />If Salmond tries to yet another cover-up and tries to give another sick and slimey vote of confidence in MacAskill then he should be impeached?<br /><br />Salmond, if you are not part of Scotland's Future then kindly F-Off along with your Yes-Men?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-87688299672880132752014-05-09T21:52:48.194+01:002014-05-09T21:52:48.194+01:00If Mr Gill was an MSP he could be removed through ...If Mr Gill was an MSP he could be removed through the ballot box. But he has unlimited power to use against members of the public and he cannot be removed from his position by any member of the public. This fact proves is not attached to society, on the contrary he has power like the rest of his profession that is unregulated. This is an untenable situation in 2014 in this country. Power is never relinquished, constant vigilance is the price of freedom from domination. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-45645035534204402532014-05-09T21:40:11.907+01:002014-05-09T21:40:11.907+01:00Without Politics every man would have to choose th...Without Politics every man would have to choose their own principles of justice which would create chaos and "continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short". Thomas Hobbes Levaithan, because there would be no Police and Courts to regulate disputes. <br /><br />In the context of the Judiciary there is no power to control them in terms of what they do to members of the public in court and so civil litigants are at the mercy of people who choose principles of justice based on there own conflicts of interest, which clearly is not justice. As Hobbes meant no politics to govern society meant that each man makes up his own rules. <br /><br />The Judiciary make up there own rules {Judges with criminal records in the Courts} because there is no power to prevent them from doing so. In theory terms the state on not having a government is anarchy, or the state of nature. Hobbes was right although Locke argued safeguards were necessary to remove a government that turned on the people. <br /><br />The Judiciary collectively are their own law enforcers and hence have no legitimacy to do their jobs. They need a power to "keep them in awe" because self regulation and justice are mutually exclusive. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-69164529580497611972014-05-09T21:16:51.282+01:002014-05-09T21:16:51.282+01:00Judges and their subordinates want to be allowed t...Judges and their subordinates want to be allowed to carry on behind a smokescreen and they are upset because they think this situation should be allowed to continue. Who gave them independence from society? They did, the public were never consulted and the system if therefore corrupt. In the Judges world there are no laws. like the Law Society no laws there either. Transparency would utterly destroy the judiciary and they know it hence all of the resistance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-3958963298237435082014-05-09T14:40:25.969+01:002014-05-09T14:40:25.969+01:00Moi Ali said "The position of the judiciary i...Moi Ali said "The position of the judiciary is incredibly powerful. They have the power to take away people’s assets, to separate families, to lock people away for years. Some of these people will not have committed a crime. They may be women who want protection from abusing partners, fathers who want access to their children, or people whose home is at stake due to various legal or family wrangles. People going through the court system face stress and anxiety, perhaps financial pressures, and fear about the future. Their perspective is important and must be a consideration in this matter."<br /><br />This is what really needs to hit home with everyone about the judges and how powerful they are.Judges cannot be allowed to get away with fiddling their own rules to suit their power .Make them register the lot otherwise none of them can ever be trusted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-16860782240325269652014-05-09T12:09:52.981+01:002014-05-09T12:09:52.981+01:00The Judicial Complaints Reviewer makes clear the j...The Judicial Complaints Reviewer makes clear the judges should drop their boycott of wider parliamentary and public scrutiny. <br /><br />Engagement with elected representatives is not, in itself, a danger to judicial independence and to continue to insist so is hyperbole.<br /><br />When a senior figure in the legal establishment says that the current oversight of our judiciary is not fit for purpose and is ineffective it undermines the credibility of parliament, and public confidence in it, if these failings are allowed to persist.<br /><br />The Scottish Parliament cannot and must not continue to bury its head in the sand.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-623826767931726532014-05-09T12:07:31.201+01:002014-05-09T12:07:31.201+01:00I support Moi Ali for telling the msps the truth a...I support Moi Ali for telling the msps the truth about the judiciary.<br />I formerly worked for several years at the Scottish Court Service.from personal experience I am happy to support Peter Cherbi's calls for a register of interests as I have seen many cases of sheriffs who knew very well they had conflict of interests and did nothing about it.<br /><br />And Peter may be interested to (or may know already)the recusal stats now published by the Lord President is being laughed at by many of my former colleagues.Truth be told if the figures were accurate the recusals would be much higher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-58291247348843445082014-05-09T11:03:39.928+01:002014-05-09T11:03:39.928+01:00Did anyone bother to tell the judge arguing agains...Did anyone bother to tell the judge arguing against declaring any interests is now generally viewed as concealing corruption.<br /><br />Just imagine if Lord Gill was hearing a case and he ordered parties to disclose their assets and said parties refused.<br /><br />Lord Gill will find them in contempt of court and fine or sentence them to custody.<br /><br />How can Lord Gill get away with activities he will not allow in his own court and I say "his own court" because Gill and the judges are now treating the courts as their own just as you have said time and again Mr Cherbi and now it all comes out in the open in how they are replying to you and the msps when you made this petition to the Scottish parliament.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-46901110095316924992014-05-09T09:53:33.838+01:002014-05-09T09:53:33.838+01:00It would be an act of pure ignorance to ignore the...It would be an act of pure ignorance to ignore the expert professional evidence from Ms Moi Ali, who has seen with her own eyes the level to which secrecy and self serving behaviour exists in Scotland's Judiciary, where sweeping things under the carpet is done with the efficient fervour of the Scottish Curling Team?<br /><br />The 'opinion for sale' that is MacAskill in siding with NoNo just goes to show how anti Scottish Public he has become and how wedded he is to be the bun-boy of the Law Society of Scotland?<br /><br />(Bun-boy: not a typo....a person who runs errands for someone to collect orders of cake from the bakers so that his over-lords can stuff their face)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-28801302209064392732014-05-08T23:47:19.453+01:002014-05-08T23:47:19.453+01:00The position of the judiciary is incredibly powerf...The position of the judiciary is incredibly powerful. They have the power to take away people’s assets, to separate families, to lock people away for years. Some of these people will not have committed a crime. They may be women who want protection from abusing partners, fathers who want access to their children, or people whose home is at stake due to various legal or family wrangles. People going through the court system face stress and anxiety, perhaps financial pressures, and fear about the future. <br />-----------------------------------<br />These people have omnipotent power, the only thing they cannot do is order people to be murdered. Just like Psychiatrists they can lock people away in mental institutions for life if need be . I am not saying they do this for sinister reasons, I am saying they can if they work together. <br /><br />The Judiciary are detached from society, they make decisions about society but are under no scrutiny for it, like the ancient Church. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-6986114618096740522014-05-08T20:14:06.838+01:002014-05-08T20:14:06.838+01:00This is a very interesting document you have publi...This is a very interesting document you have published from Moi Ali.What she is saying in her cover letter and consultation reply could easily pass for other jurisdictions where judges frequently bend or write the rules in their own favor.<br /><br />Good luck with your petition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-89086645184755732492014-05-08T20:01:48.669+01:002014-05-08T20:01:48.669+01:00Judicial “safeguards” put in place by MacAskill in...Judicial “safeguards” put in place by MacAskill in consultation with the same judges who now oppose a register of interests. MACASKILL THE ONLY SAFEGUARD IS FOR THE PUBLIC TO STAY AWAY FROM LAWYERS. <br /><br />The Judicial Complaints Reviewer told msps: “As the person appointed by the Cabinet Secretary to review complaints handled under these rules, I can say from experience over nearly three years that the rules are not fit for purpose.”<br /><br />I am not surprised Miss Ali these people have no "power to keep them in awe" as Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20722989.post-27356453074777848342014-05-08T19:59:16.567+01:002014-05-08T19:59:16.567+01:00After the evidence led and the wicked and twisted ...After the evidence led and the wicked and twisted way Scottish Judges have been caught tricking the Scottish Public, you would have to be no-right-in-the-heed to oppose a Register of Interests for Scottish Judges & Sheriffs?<br /><br />Kenny MacAskill is the proof of this concept?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com