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Senior counsel left out as Scottish legal aid board tries to cut costs on the quiet



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Published Date: 21 July 2008
By Patrick Wheatley
I HAVE always had a passion for our criminal justice system and believe that we have a system that, by and large, stands up with the best of them.
At university in the early 1960s we studied the criminal law that had developed during the 1950s. There were several major cases in that decade, and there was an overriding sense that if a prosecution was flawed, a conviction could not stand. For tho...



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  • Last Updated: 20 July 2008 7:26 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Legal Issues
 
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Free by '93,

21/07/2008 00:02:31
Betwenn you, me, Kenny MacAskill, Legal Aid wasting billions and punishments that resemble action adventure holidays that cost millions and don't work I can tell I you would never go back the dark old days of the Tories and Jail terms.

The first 15 years of independence has shown how well we can treat scum-bags.
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ultravires,

Edinburgh 22/07/2008 12:31:19
well if you don't like the way the legal aid board spends the money, make the legal profession pay for it's administration.

takes the argument of wasting taxpayers money right out of the equation and since only members of the legal profession receive legal aid payments, that would be fair, right ?
3

2Right,

On Location 04/08/2008 05:08:35
I have it from a good source that one who worked with "SCCRC" now decides who gets Senior Cousel or not at SLAB.
Great independent Justice system we have eh ?
He has also told someone that his lawyer is competent enough to lodge his appeal.

 

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