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Published Date: 09 May 2009
JOHN Forysth (Law & Legal Affairs, 4 May) writes about the introduction of McKenzie Friends into the Scottish courts and comments that "Lord Gill has been considering a major overhaul of Scottish justice".
If the Scottish justice system is to be put in order, Lord Gill should consider enforcing the rules that many lawyers and advocates abuse.

Lord Gill knows a lawyer or advocate must not knowingly give false or misleading information to the court or misquote documents or become an accomplice to any fraud, yet these are some of the many abuses that go on in court each day, but those on the bench who are supposed to uphold the law ignore it.

When the late Lord President Emslie and Lord Justice Clerk Wheatley became judges, they sorted out the abuses that were going on at the time with a large volume of criminal appeals which were unfounded and brought just to get fees. They doubled the sentence and the abuses came to a halt, so what is Lord Gill going to do?

DEREK COONEY

Petershill Drive

Glasgow




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  • Last Updated: 09 May 2009 12:40 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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open,

west coast 09/05/2009 12:15:36
INJUSTICE IN SCOTLAND BBC RADIO 06 May 2009
http://www.youtube.com/v/EtD2N7lEVyM

CORRUPTION IN SCOTLAND BBC RADIO 06 May 2009
http://www.youtube.com/v/Dm8YoPbwgbw
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Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 09/05/2009 22:50:56
I remember sitting in on such an appeal before Lord Wheatley and two colleagues, when they not only increased the sentence, but also added some pointed remarks on the above lines, indicating that the panel was lucky not to have got off even worse. The look the defence counsel got from his client as he was taken back to the cells was positively cinematic.


 

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