ANIMAL FORUM

Fri 18 Jul 2003

Law Society myth

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/letters.cfm?idw9022003

As a member of the steering group of Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers, I
could not agree more with your article on Tommy Butler, The Law Society is
worse than a pit full of vipers (Law, 15 July).

Regardless of the Law Society of Scotlands claim that impartiality is a
cornerstone of the professional life of a solicitor whose work can lead to
representing clients against governments, multinationals, individuals and
sometimes their own membership organisation, I know this is a myth. It is
perpetuated by the society to make a complacent public believe its
complaints procedures are not just a facade of redress for complainants.

The withdrawal of Mr Butlers solicitor from his case on the day he was due
to appear in court to contest the societys litigation suit is not an
isolated case.

But blaming the society alone, or, for that matter, the Faculty of
Advocates, will never rectify matters. No empire ever remedied or dismantled
itself. Former lawyers, in the shape of sheriffs, judges and MSPs, must take
their share of the blame.

Only the Scottish Executive has the power to effect radical change, so it is
about time it used it and called the unaccountable to account.

WILLIAM BURNS
Shore Road, South Queensferry, West Lothian
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The justice problem is UK nationwide. The UK Justice System is a hotbed of
corruption and often ruled over by many corrupt and very evil people. The
time is drawing close to when their must be a day of reckoning.

The-Informer

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