tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post7962254159142837547..comments2023-09-20T13:32:30.933+01:00Comments on Scottish Law Reporter: TOP TEN reasons why the Scottish Legal Aid Budget is so high, and why Scotland’s 5 years old Justice Secretary should go back to being a High Street solicitorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-34744001853151749472013-06-28T13:20:49.443+01:002013-06-28T13:20:49.443+01:00Lay advocates (sure to come in time), and an incre...Lay advocates (sure to come in time), and an increase in McKenzie Friends will soon dent the wallets of all 'instructing agents'.Keeper of the Lighthttp://www.freethepeople.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-4122304066270251862012-11-15T13:07:57.985+00:002012-11-15T13:07:57.985+00:00Let the crooked Scottish lawyers strike and make s...Let the crooked Scottish lawyers strike and make sure that none of them are ever allowed to return to the courts, so that the Public can be served by a new set of Scottish lawyers who have morals and who don't commit legal aid fraud with impunity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-3421645221065158012012-11-15T13:05:10.685+00:002012-11-15T13:05:10.685+00:00The problem seems to be the tripartite relationshi...The problem seems to be the tripartite relationship between the Law Society of Scotland, the Crown Office & the SLAB where crooked Scottish lawyers have historically been allowed to fill their boots and steal from the Legal Aid Fund and where the SLAB facilitate this fraud by turning a blind eye and the Crown Office refuse to prosecute their colleague Scottish crooked lawyers?<br /><br />The sooner a stop is put to this fraud the quicker the Legal Aid expense of £160 Million can be cut in half?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-82065327128079319462012-11-15T10:22:41.849+00:002012-11-15T10:22:41.849+00:00The fact is there is more fraud going on inside SL...The fact is there is more fraud going on inside SLAB than outside it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-23300940632373961732012-11-15T00:33:02.760+00:002012-11-15T00:33:02.760+00:00It is well known that Scottish crooked lawyers hav...It is well known that Scottish crooked lawyers have been subsidising their lavish lifestyles, new executive cars every year, flash holidays three times a year and putting their kids through posh private school out of the gravy-train (free cash fund) that is called the Scottish Legal Aid Fund?<br /><br />It has become very similar to the MP's expenses scandal.....remember at the time when they were caught with their fingers in the till they whined......well it is common knowledge that when you enter parliament you are told to claim for everything to bump up your salary....?<br /><br />Well it is the same as for Scotland's crooked lawyers who have been bleeding the public fund dry like CASH VAMPIRES?<br /><br />A far better way to cut the £160 + SLAB Funding in half is simple......CUT OUT THE SYSTEMATIC AND ENDEMIC FRAUD BEING COMMITTED!<br /><br />And as if to rub salt deep into the public's slashed and open wounds, the crooked bunch threat to go on strike and say that they are doing so to stick up for the Scottish public?<br /><br />Hollywood would not even accept this as a script as it is so HORRIBLY UNBELIEVABLE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-36632344337731720482012-11-14T19:06:44.141+00:002012-11-14T19:06:44.141+00:00In the eyes of Scottish law, everyone is guilty un...In the eyes of Scottish law, everyone is guilty until proven innocent !<br />=============================<br />Yes clients and the public purse are cash trees. Fill in a few forms and the lawyers legal aid subsidy fills their bank accounts .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-43591651877747479332012-11-14T15:09:11.193+00:002012-11-14T15:09:11.193+00:00and the No. 1 reason YOUR Scottish Legal Aid Budge...and the No. 1 reason YOUR Scottish Legal Aid Budget is so high, is … : In the eyes of Scottish law, everyone is guilty until proven innocent !<br /><br />NOPE.<br /><br />In Scotland Paedophiles are considered to be innocent and never proved guilty in Scots law..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com