Tuesday, April 23, 2013

From ‘Axe Nurses First’ crackpot legal aid protests to Commonwealth Law Conference trips to South Africa, Law Society promises CLA delegates warm welcome in 2015

From crackpot protests outside Holyrood to CLA Conference in South Africa - Law Society President Austin Lafferty. AS THE EIGHTEENTH Commonwealth Law Conference came to a close in Cape Town, South Africa last week, Law Society of Scotland President Austin Lafferty promised delegates "the warmest of welcomes and a truly memorable experience" when Glasgow hosts the next conference in 2015.

The Law Society of Scotland said in a Press Release : The Commonwealth Lawyers' Association announced in January plans to bring its biennial conference to Glasgow in 2015. This followed a successful bid put together by the Law Society of Scotland in partnership with the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).

The bid also attracted wide support from the Scottish and UK Governments, Faculty of Advocates, VisitScotland and several other Commonwealth Law Societies.

Come 2015, delegates, including judges, lawyers and academics from across the Commonwealth are expected to attend the conference in Glasgow at the SECC, providing a welcome boost to the local economy.

As part of the closing ceremony for this week's conference in Cape Town, the Law Society of Scotland and Glasgow City Marketing Bureau presented Glasgow as an exciting and dynamic city and encouraged commonwealth lawyers to visit.

Speaking to almost 1,000 conference delegates, Law Society President Austin Lafferty said: "Glasgow is a city that offers the best of both worlds. A vibrant, dynamic, friendly place. A city of beautiful architecture, a city rich in culture and art, a city of style.

"It's fitting that the city that will next year host the Commonwealth's greatest sporting event will, less than 12 months later, host the Commonwealth's greatest legal gathering.  It will be a proud moment for my city and for my country.

"I can promise delegates the warmest of welcomes and a truly memorable experience in 2015."

The Advocate General, Lord Wallace of Tankerness attended this week's conference in Cape Town and was a strong public supporter of the Glasgow bid to host the conference.

He said: "Bringing a major international conference like this to Scotland is a major achievement and the Law Society of Scotland has done an excellent job in securing it. There has been a real sense of excitement this week with many Commonwealth lawyers looking forward to visiting Glasgow in 2015, many for the first time.

"Scotland has a proud, historic and distinct legal system. 2015 will provide a great opportunity to showcase the Scots legal profession but also learn from colleagues across the Commonwealth facing many similar challenges and issues in their own countries. It also allows us to show off one of our major cities and Scotland as a whole to professionals from across the globe and I look forward to it being a success in two years' time."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

ye gods

just imagine having this guy towering over you as you look up - yuk!

Anonymous said...

One way to make this an unforgettable experience would be to acquaint delegates with Lord Gill's summary of the Scottish legal system as 'Victorian....in need of urgent reform....and failing society'.

Anonymous said...

This lot are behaving like the Princes of Scotland?

Bring it on........there will be mass protests to display the disgust the People of Scotland feel about these reviled crooks so the rest of the World will find out just how crooked lawyers can be?

Anonymous said...

Speaking to almost 1,000 conference delegates, Law Society President Austin Lafferty said: "Glasgow is a city that offers the best of both worlds. A vibrant, dynamic, friendly place. A city of beautiful architecture, a city rich in culture and art, a city of style.

SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS

I would never trust your profession Austin, when I get e mails from no win no fee crooks I e mail "back no thanks I do not trust the legal profession." My pleasure is refusing to deal with them because when I do this there are a few wonderful advantages.

1) I cannot have my life ruined.

2) The law firm makes no money from me.

3) I don't have to deal with the organization you are President of.

4) I don't have to deal with a profession who do not have a complaints system.

5) I destroy the lawyers ability to use me as a thing to make money.

6) I have peace on mind knowing I am not dealing with a heavily protected criminal who would have taken on my case.

7) I cannot go to legal hell, where my rights are stripped from me because the lawyer who ruins me won't be taken to court by another lawyer because no other lawyer would represent me.

8) I wish you could be in my shoes Austin or Peter Cherbi's because perhaps then you would realize who public mistrust in your profession grows daily. I am sincere when I say I would rather be dead than trust a lawyer again. What a shockingly vile profession you all are, it is not personal Austin, you are no doubt well versed in law, but justice is not universal in Scotland, so the only way I can protect myself is to refuse to deal with your profession for life.

Anonymous said...

Haha Why Glasgow?I thought the Law Society had a contract deal with the Edinburgh rent boy set to provide hospitality on the fly?

Anonymous said...

"Axe Nurses First" suits this guy and his cohorts down to the ground!