Scottish Borders Council £250K data fine case goes to appeal tribunal as...
Scottish Borders Council was recently fined £250K for data breaches. SOUTH OF SCOTLAND local authority Scottish Borders Council (SBC) have been ranked the most unsafe local authority for data handling...
View ArticleScottish Legal Aid Board refuse to disclose info on lawyers reported for...
Unfit for purpose – The Scottish Legal Aid Board are losing the battle on legal aid fraud, and on how to write a Press Release. LEGAL AID FRAUD is a multi-million pound rising crime in Scotland,...
View ArticleClaims of 'Censorship' as papers reveal Scottish Parliament ‘reluctant to...
Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee reluctant to ask judges about freemasonry A PUBLIC PETITION lodged at the Scottish Parliament by Dunfermline based Transparency campaigner Mr Thomas Minogue...
View ArticleAttempt to rescue SNP’s costly, ailing solicitors regulator as Bill...
New Chair appointed to SNP’s ailing legal regulator. THEScottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has today announced the appointment of Bill Brackenridge as it’s chair, somewhat tardily replacing...
View ArticleLevy Mcrae lawyer Bill Macreath had his ‘Human Rights’ violated says Court of...
Court of Session Judge Lord Drummond Young rules lawyer had his ‘human rights’ breached by Law Society over complaint row. WILLIAM MACREATH, a partner in the well known Glasgow law firm LEVY MCRAE, and...
View ArticleFears Crown Office are prosecuting Religious Minorities ‘to balance books’ as...
Lock em’up - Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill happy over sectarian hate law progress.ANTI-SECTARIAN legislation brought in by the Scottish Government to tackle incidents of sectarian songs &...
View ArticleLET HER EAT CAKE : Scotland’s Top Judge & snooty judiciary refuse to...
Moi Ali was ‘frozen out’ by Lord Gill and secretive judiciary.MOI ALI, the Judicial Complaints Reviewer appointed by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to independently review judges handling of...
View ArticleLost Your Keys ? Scottish Police Services Agency boss spends £800K on private...
PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS apparently mean nothing at the Scottish Police Service Authority, the new watchdog for Scotland’s single Police Service, who are reported to have spent nearly a million pounds of...
View ArticleScottish Government ‘to consider’ draconian censorship of all media as...
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT have today published the report by their own expert group headed by 86 year old Lord McCluskey on the recommendations made by Lord justice Leveson into press practices and how...
View ArticleLaw Society of Scotland President Austin Lafferty backs Alex Salmond’s...
Between the placards, Austin Lafferty strikes a chord for an increase in legal aid fees.AUSTIN LAFFERTY, the current President of the Law Society of Scotland has given his backing to the draconian...
View ArticleKEEP SALM & CENSOR ON ? First Minister’s report on Leveson will censor anyone...
First Minister Alex Salmond wants regulator with power to censor anyone with adverse opinion. THE PROSPECT of Soviet style total media censorship coming to Scotland has taken a significant leap forward...
View ArticleScottish Government to tackle growing problem of drug culture ‘legal highs’
The Scottish Government has announced it is bringing together a range of experts, including the police and those with expertise in health, and organisations working in the community and with young...
View ArticleLaw Society AGM will see vote on separate representation for property buyers...
Solicitors in Scotland are set to vote on whether to continue to allow one solicitor to act on behalf of clients buying a property and their mortgage lender at the Law Society's annual general meeting...
View ArticlePublic urged to protest, Scottish Councils told to use loopholes as...
ADVICE for landlords and Scotland’s local authorities on the looming start of the Conservative Coalition Government’s Bedroom Tax, viewed by many as a new Poll Tax which may well end up evicting...
View ArticleHave an opinion on Scotland’s health services or an experience worth sharing...
PATIENTS using Scotland’s health services are now able to have their opinions & experiences of using the country’s medical services published online via the new Patient Opinion website, announced...
View Article‘Magic Circle’ of Scottish Judges & rent boys : Scandal Solicitor David Blair...
Solicitor David Blair Wilson pictured outside court.DAVID BLAIR WILSON, a crooked solicitor well known for his part in the Magic Circle affair which exposed a sex-for-justice scandal involving liaisons...
View ArticleFrom ‘Axe Nurses First’ crackpot legal aid protests to Commonwealth Law...
From crackpot protests outside Holyrood to CLA Conference in South Africa - Law Society President Austin Lafferty. AS THEEIGHTEENTH Commonwealth Law Conference came to a close in Cape Town, South...
View ArticleProceeds of Crime seizures & Cashback for Communities £80m ‘success’ wiped...
Lord Advocate & Crown Office receive £100million annual funding.PROCEEDS OF CRIME legislation created in 2003 by the then Scottish Executive, has, according to claims made by Scotland’s Crown...
View ArticlePolice Scotland asked to investigate collapsed Scottish bank HBoS for...
Police Scotland asked to investigate corruption at HBoS.POLICE SCOLTAND have been asked to investigate Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) now known as Lloyds Banking group, after complaints were lodged...
View ArticlePolice called in to investigate DWF Biggart Baillie’s Banking & Finance head...
Top Banking specialist lawyer Grant Docherty found guilty of threatening client.SOLICITORGRANT DOCHERTY, currently the head of Banking & Finance at DWF Biggart Baillie has been found GUILTY of...
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