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Law Society of Scotland lobbies Scottish Parliament to pass anti
consumer amendments on LPLA Bill threatening Court action if demands
not met

Just imagine you were a politician for a minute, and someone you knew
committed a murder or another serious crime, but got away with it.

This criminal, then came to you, asking you to amend the Law so they
could
murder someone else and get away with it, and just to keep themselves
happy,
they want you to also write amendments to the Law so they could abuse,
murder & steal to their hearts content - and get away with it.

Would you do it ? Would you help a murderer or a fraudster or a child
abuser, amend the law so they could carry on murdering, stealing, or
abusing
and get away with it ?

That is precisely what the Scottish legal profession is asking MSPs to
do
today in the Scottish Parliament in the debate on the Legal Profession
&
Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill , which aims to bring independent regulation
to
the legal profession, and take away the current crooked self regulation

system operated by the Law Society of Scotland - which has seen
thousands of
complaints fiddled against crooked lawyers so clients get little or no
compensation while the crooked lawyer gets off the hook from many
client
complaints & keeps on practising & keeps on robbing other clients who
cant
get anywhere trying to recover their lost money

Such cases as TOP LAWYER AT THE CENTRE OF 12 NEGLIGENCE CLAIMS are all
too
common, and from my own experience, just look how crooked lawyer Drew
Penman
was - and got away with it, to carry on being a crooked lawyer, so much

I
nominated him for Scotland's Most Famous Crooked Lawyer in Tueday's
article
Scottish Legal Awards - Lawyer Lawyer on the wall, who is the most
crooked
of us all ?

The Law Society of Scotland are today, promoting Jim Wallace MSP,
former
Deputy First Minister and Justice Minister, and Jackie Baillie, former
Social Justice Minister and current member of the Justice 2 Committee
as
allies in their battle to prevent the public from getting a fair
hearing
when it comes to complaints against crooked lawyers.

Bit strange, isn't it ? that a Former Justice Minister would support a
gang
of criminals ? would support a profession which has ruined peoples
lives,
embezzled all their money, even caused the death of people - to save a
lawyer from prosecution over fraud, corruption, embezzlement, *removed**removed**removed**removed*,
abuse,
drugs dealing .... what kind of politician would support such a group
of
people ?

It's not just Jim Wallace though - as you can see from the amendments
listed
for the Parliamentary Debate - there are several other MSPs who have
come
forth to support Scotland's twisted & corrupt legal profession -
hellbent on
killing any chance of independent scrutiny of their corrupt behaviour
towards clients.

Link to the Amendments: Marshalled List of Amendments selected for
Stage 3

Please note Bill Aitken - Conservative MSP for Glasgow - he seems to be

one
of the Chief mouthpieces for crooked lawyers in this war against
consumer
reforms it seems - and he is so in love with the idea that crooked
lawyers
should be allowed to embezzle your money & get away with it - he
demanded
the proposed maximum fine of £20,000 for crooked lawyers be reduced to

a
mere £5000 in his Amendment No.179.

How do you like that idea then ? An MSP - a politician you elected, but

now
a mouthpiece for the Law Society of Scotland, wants a crooked lawyer to

only
have to pay £5000 at the very most - if for instance - they ruin your
business, ruin your life, take your home, embezzle all your money. What

kind
of punishment or deterrent is that ?

Jackie Ballie MSP - former Social Justice Minister & Justice 2
Committee
member isn't far behind Bill Aitken with anti-consumer amendments
either -
she also proposed the lowering of the £20,000 for crooked lawyers be
reduced
to £15,000 ... what a rip off ! - and why should there even be a limit

of
fine ?

How about when a lawyer ruins your business and you lose £100,000 or
more ?
You won't get much back from the £5,000 or £15,000 fine limit these
MSPs are
proposing ... and it's no use saying get a lawyer to sue the lawyer -
that
doesn't work as we all know - and which is why we are here today with
the
LPLA Bill.

In fact, it seems, out of 129 MSPs at the Scottish Parliament, only a
few
have stepped forward with any motivation at all on the part of the
public -
John Swinney MSP (SNP) and Colin Fox (SSP), to mention the most daring.

Everyone else has kept a brutal silence on this issue - despite the
fact
every single MSP knows full well the corruption in the Scottish legal
profession and how endemically corrupt the Law Society of Scotland's
self
regulatory complaints regime has been for decades.

Other MSPs who posted a variety of amendments to the LPLA Bill are :
Jeremy
Purvis (LibDem) , David Davidson (Conservative), Johann Lamont
(Labour),
Stewart Maxwell (SNP) & Hugh Henry (Labour)

The Law Society of Scotland has done its utmost to kill off the LPLA
Bill,
even having groups of lawyers meet with MSPs - even members of the
Justice
Committees themselves, where lawyers have privately warned some MSPs
the
LPLA Bill is not to become law unless it writes the amendments itself -

and
with the amendments proposed by Glasgow's Bill Aitken MSP - it looks
like
the Law Society of Scotland have done just that.

It's almost as if the Law Society of Scotland wants to censor the
Scottish
Parliament - just as it has done with the Scottish media - which I
wrote
about here :
Law Society of Scotland actively censors the Scottish Press to kill
articles
on crooked lawyers and here :
Scottish Legal Profession censors the Press to kill off bad publicity -

Part
II

The Law Society of Scotland is running so scared of the LPLA Bill, the
legal
profession have now threatened to boycott legal work - all because of
the
fact that lawyers won't be able to fiddle complaints against themselves

with
the advent of independent regulation of complaints in the LPLA Bill ..
and
an article today in the Herald Newspaper quotes those threats - so the
crooked lawyers aren't going to take on all those cases such as
executry,
conveyancing or court work, for which the law requires they are
registered
as practicing solicitors.

Good ... that means they wont be able to rip you off for vast fees for
selling your house or buying a house, or ripping off dead clients wills

-
like crooked lawyer Andrew Penman did with my dad's will, and they
can't
prolong Civil Court work you asked them to do for you - so they can
fatten
up the account at the end of the work done ... It might just bring a
new
more honest breed of person into the legal arena who is able to
undertake
the work for you without all those fat inflated bills to feather the
high
living lifestyles of all those crooked lawyers.

Not content with threatening to boycott legal work, the Law Society of
Scotland has also issued a Press Release with a threat of a Court
Challenge
to the Parliament against the LPLA Bill if the legal profession's
demands of
amendments are not met. How's that for dictatorship then ! .... has
Douglas
Mill now become the new Saddam Hussein ? We get rid of one Dictator and

another one springs up - but this time, it's at home - and Mr Mill &
the
gang of political control-freak lawyers in the Scottish legal
profession are
far more dangerous to the public & the judicial system than any
politician -
as has been proved time & again.

Douglas Mill's threat of a Court challenge to the LPLA Bill is well
known,
because he called the newspapers to publish his threat in early
November- I
covered it here : Law Society of Scotland threatens Court challenge
against
Scottish Executive over LPLA legal reform Bill,. but it just goes to
show
how far the Law Society is willing to go to keep complaints handling to

themselves - all this to keep crooked lawyers in jobs - who would
otherwise
be in jail if they tried their wholesale client rip offs, embezzlements

&
other activities anywhere else.

Peter Cherbi's message to the Scottish Parliament today :

Resist the threats & intimidation of the Law Society of Scotland & the
legal
mafia. Pass the Legal Profession & Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill without
all
those so obviously anti consumer amendments and give the public a
chance to
be heard for once. You all know we are right in what we say - and how
long
all of us victims - the seen & unseen have suffered - do something
about it,
and bring honesty to the Scottish legal profession. Give the public a
reason
to trust the people who must represent us in the Courts & legal system
-
because at the moment, we have no one to trust with our legal affairs.
No
one.

Herald article here : http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/76711.html

Law change 'may harm clients of solicitors'
DOUGLAS FRASER December 14 2006

Solicitors may walk away from mainstream legal work if there is too
much
regulatory burden placed on them by legislation which is entering its
final
stage at Holyrood, the Law Society of Scotland has warned.

A spokeswoman said yesterday that if the costs of remaining as a
solicitor
are increased by the charges for sustaining a new complaints system,
including fines of up to £20,000, that may encourage solicitors to
redefine
themselves as lawyers or legal advisers instead.

If they do not carry out executry, conveyancing or court work, for
which the
law requires they are registered as practising solicitors, they would
be
free to carry on without that badge - on commercial work, for
instance.

The spokeswoman said solicitors would prefer to remain as a unified
profession, but added that costs and regulation could change that. The
outcome would only harm customers' interests, it was claimed, taking
many
lawyers outside the remit of the new complaints system. It may also
make
lawyers more selective in the cases they are willing to take on.

The Law Society of Scotland has made repeated warnings about the Legal
Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill, on which MSPs will take their

final decisions today.

With key amendments facing them, one of those warnings is that the bill

as
it stands this morning could become the first piece of Holyrood
legislation
to be struck down for being incompatible with human rights legislation.

Press Release (or declaration of War against the Scottish public &
Parliament) by the Law Society of Scotland here :

Former Ministers Back Society's Calls for Change to Legal Reform Bill

TWO influential MSPs have backed the Law Society of Scotland's concerns

and
will bring forward vital amendments to the legal Profession and Legal
Aid
(Scotland) Bill tomorrow (Thursday 14 December).

Jim Wallace MSP, former Deputy First Minister and Justice Minister, and

Jackie Baillie, former Social Justice Minister and current member of
the
Justice 2 Committee, are among those who have put forward amendments to

the
Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill.

The Society has warned consistently that the Bill, which includes
setting up
a Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to handle service complaints
against
lawyers, could breach the European Convention on Human Rights. Unless
its
flaws are addressed it could become the first Act of the Scottish
Parliament
to be struck down as incompetent.

The former ministers' amendments, as well as a series of amendments by
the
Scottish Executive and David Davidson MSP, seek to correct flaws
highlighted
by the Society. They include the need to provide a right of appeal to
the
courts against SLCC decisions and involvement of the Lord President in
the
appointment of Commission members.

Douglas Mill, the Chief Executive of the Society, stressed that the
Stage 3
debate tomorrow (Thursday December 14) was the final chance for MSPs to

ensure that the new process for making complaints against solicitors is

better than the current system.

He said: "The Society backs the principle of establishing an
independent
body to handle service complaints against solicitors in Scotland but
that
must be an improvement on the existing system for the public and legal
profession alike.

"We have made our concerns known on a number of occasions and a large
number
of amendments have already been tabled during the parliamentary process

which have led to some improvements but the question of ECHR compliance

and
the independence of the SLCC from government are fundamental and must
be
addressed tomorrow.

"The Society hopes the amendments brought forward at the Stage 3 debate

will
correct the flaws in this Bill and ensure it does not face a court
challenge
at a later stage."

Other changes that the Society hopes will be agreed during the debate
include lowering the maximum compensation levels for individual
findings of
poor service by lawyers from £20,000 and ensuring greater
accountability of
the work and costs of the SLCC.
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