John Swinney reveals 'claims fixing memos' of Douglas MIll

John Swinney - one of a small number of Scottish Politicians who would dare to take on the might and corruption of Scotland's legal establishment and the Law Society of Scotland, reveals secret memos of the Law Society Chief Executive, Douglas Mill memos which detail a policy of corrupt intervention in claims & complaints against crooked lawyers, along with a policy of denying clients access to justice and the courts.

Ironically, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has just denied any knowledge of this claims fixing memo, along with a few others, which have linked one of those involved and named in the memo (Martin McAllister) to an appointment to the Judicial Appointments Board made by Mr MacAskill himself.

You can read more about that story here : http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2008/08/justice-secretary-macaskill-denies.html

Cabinet Secretary John Swinney 's statement : "I am interested in what the witnesses have just said about the Law Society having nothing to do with the arrangements for handling negligence claims. I have in front of me a memorandum in connection with the case of one of my constituents. It was issued by Mr Mill on 5 July 2001."

"Mr Mill's memo was written to the then president of the Law Society, Mr McAllister. It refers to the broker of the master policy. Mr Mill suggests that it would be good if he and the others involved all got together and had a "summit meeting" to discuss how to dispose of my constituent's "several valid claims". Mr Mill and I have discussed the matter at length over the years, but I find that a rather strange memo if it is to sit comfortably with the statement that the president has just made.

The memo of 5 July encourages "a summit meeting on the up-to-date position"to be held to look at "both the complaints and the claims aspects." That rather suggests that the Law Society has been involved. The claim remains unresolved to date and yet the memo is dated 5 July 2001."

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