SACL is made up of people from all walks of life. Its members have all, at one time or another, been victims of deep-rooted corruption by grubstreet lawyers and law warehousemen in the extended legal profession. Although all our cases are dissimilar, a vicious underlying theme pervades throughout, and that is the complete lack of redress from a self-regulated, hence corrupt, legal profession. It is an endlessly implacable tyranny that abides by no code, legal or humane.
We are not anarchists, but law-abiding citizens who strive, by necessity, to embarrass the powers-that-be (including MSPs) to take responsibility for the mess our legal system is in. Whenever the legal profession abandons the law and justice, the legal profession itself proclaims anarchy.
A similar pattern of judicial disorder extends to the highest echelons of the legal profession. Many SACL members' cases unveil a ready-made plan of action, or defence, by law herdsmen, to pre-empt exoneration for their cronies' crimes, assisted by fellow conspirators in the Law Society, the Faculty of Ad-vermin-cates (sic), the Crown Office and the Judiciary.
Having been forced into the corridors of depravity in our civil courts over prolonged periods, we eventually learned the sad truth about the crooked operatives in the legal profession and their deceitfully fraudulent habits. A typical example of how they operate is in divorce cases. Never has the Italian proverb "A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer" been more pertinent. If one of the litigants does not conspire with one or both of the lawyers to deprive the ex-partner of his/her just deserts, the two lawyers will customarily prolong the case until such times as most, if not all, of the spoils are in the hands of the lawyers through their legal fees. The litigants end up with little or nothing for their rancorous squabbles when they could have, more beneficially, settled for a "bad agreement" at the outset, leaving them both better off.
SACL campaigns to alter that. The responsibility ultimately lies at the doorstep of the Scottish Government. To date, they have not had the spine to stand up to the judiciary and the wider legal profession. They allow full-time lawyer-advisers and lawyer-MSPs - who greatly outnumber the quota of MSPs - to take an overly legalistic approach to political debates in order to control all the arguments in Parliament for the benefit of the legal profession rather than for the benefit of the Scottish people as a whole.
Lawyer MSPs allegiance to their political party undoubtedly takes second place to their allegiance to their profession. They also totally disregard their constituents who deserve an ethical, efficient, well-organised, trustworthy, and accountable legal and political system.
Lawyers have an insidious effect on all political parties and issues. This is why no Scottish Government to date has had the gumption to end self-regulation of the legal profession. They are, therefore, primarily responsible for preserving crooked lawyers' unaccountability.
Accountability lies at the heart of everything. Self-regulation = unaccountability = deep-rooted corruption; nothing less. It is an affront to democracy and humanity. The legal profession becomes numb with fear and trepidation at the thought of accountability. Cowardly nonlawyer politicians seek sanctuary when asked to take responsibility and explain this peculiar unaccountability. This is because they are bureaucratically, legislatively and morally bankrupt.
This is why we campaigned on the first Thursday of every month at 12-noon at strategic focal points in, especially Edinburgh, but occasionally in Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Our efforts are aimed towards, inter alia, ending self-regulation of the Law Society of Scotland and removing the privileges it abuses when presiding over complaints made by aggrieved members of the public against the very thugs the Law Society licenses to give audience in court in the first place. To all appearances, the Law Society is an insular, quasi-underworld, totalitarian organisation covered up by legalese.
Nobile Officium
Another mechanism that gives Scottish judges the power to operate
with impunity is the "Nobile Officium" catch-all
ruse, which is unique to Scotland. "It allows the Court
of Session to exercise its 'equitable discretion' to modify the common
law or to grant relief in a situation where no provision exists under
the ordinary law. This might be done where an unexpected or
exceptional circumstance arises for which jusrtice dictates there
should be a remedy."
"Equitable discretion" is the key phrase here. Almost
invariably the decisions are dependent on a less than scrupulous judge
and almost invariably he does NOT exercise
"equitable (fair and impartial) discretion". An aggrieved
litigant ought to stress to the judge that he/she does not accept
the Nobile Officium as a valid procedure as there is no evidence
to support that it works equitably, therefore, he/she is not convinced
of the impartiality or fairness of any
ruling. If all litigants declared their unacceptance of Nobile
Officium it would have to be cast into antiquity.
The mere potential of it being open to a judge's prejudice against
either litigant
is enough to justify rendering it obsolete.
Self-regulation MUST end because it is a most unscrupulous, dictatorial system, concocted by lawyers, for lawyers, to cover up for lawyers' routine abandonment of morals and duty at the expense of their hagridden clients.
They have denied SACL members, and the larger public, any justice. Its legal mechanics have picked our pockets then laughed in our faces for the privilege. It was these harrowing circumstances that united SACL in common purpose.
It is unfortunate that most people have to go through a painful experience in our civil courts before they realise that the legal fraternity is devoid of any moral fibre. There is no meaningful soul within its house.
And it is not just solicitors who are corrupt. They cannot operate in a vacuum. Their criminality must be rubber-stamped by the "beaks". It is the whole system that is corrupt, from the top, down. There is an unacceptable number of law businessmen, to give them their proper moniker, being intentionally delinquent in their duty to the public.
N.B. The fliers we handed out at our monthly demos for about ten years, some of which appear elsewhere on this website, are as they were at the time we campaigned outside the Scottish Parliament, the Supreme Courts, the Crown Office, the Law Society of Scotland, and other law firms and venues necessitating our attention.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The ultimate "Conflict of
Interest" must be accorded to SACL member, Cathy.
Cathy and her husband bought their dream home. A mansion-type
property for a comparatively snip of a price. The dream was
to become a nightmare.
Unbeknown to them at the time, the lawyer whom they paid to negotiate the transfer of the house was negotiating with himself. He was the selfsame lawyer who owned the house and was selling it to them. However, the house was landlocked, so they had no access to it.
They were not to learn this until a later date, a date after which they had sold it back to the crook at a much reduced price.
At a date thereafter, they discovered that this was the third time this legal mechanic had bought and sold the selfsame property. (How many more times he embezzled his clients with just this one property scam is anyone's guess. They vastly overpaid this crooked lawyer for the privilege of being defrauded by him.)
Incognizant at the time of their lawyer's extreme conflict of interest, they still had an infallible case to complain to the Law Society of Scotland about this lawyer's, not incompetence, but unmitigated embezzlement.
To cut it to the quick, the Law Society of Scotland covered up for him, so it cost Cathy and her husband fortunes more to take the fraudster to court only to see him exonerated by his fellow conspirators: the Law Warehousemen in the Supreme Courts, Parliament Square, Edinburgh. LINK
Let us not pretend for one single moment that litigants' cases in Scottish civil courts are deliberated on and dispensed with with the same diligent attentiveness, contemplation and impartiality as advanced on STV's Judge Robert Rinder or the fictional Judge John Deed programmes. Generally, the law or any form of justice is doled out without even remotely approximating these TV programmes' adherence to the specifics of the law.
In real life, greedy law practitioners, with a conflict of interest, act within the due processes of what is the civil courts' theatre. SACL members have unfortunately become accustomed to that classical tragedy. These courtrooms are filled with pathological liars. (So much so, they are not even honest about being dishonest.) Members of the public are seldom present to witness the farcical processes in civil courts.
So beware: the Scottish legal profession operates at different "legal" levels from the public's perception of legality. What is more, in our pitiful legal system the judges outrank the truth. They set aside our laws when and if they choose, illustrating that justice is just a lottery.
We, the people, have inalienable rights. Government has an inalienable purpose to protect those rights to the full extent. We are not being protected against an unaccountable, self-regulated legal profession.
Even the few honest lawyers, if there are any, who operate within what we have been forced to accept as proper legal procedures, are still vastly overpaid for their often overrated, dubious, extortionate silver-tongued services.
Scottish J.U.S.T.I.C.E. could well mean: "Judicial Unscrupulousness Safeguarding Tediously Inflexible Corrupt Eelworms."
When Plato imparted the proverb in 380 B.C., "Honour among thieves", he must have had lawyers in mind.
If you just want to titter at the expense of lawyers, go to "Jokes about Lawyers" LINK or to "Quotes by famous people about Lawyers". LINK.