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DOUGLAS MILL AND THE SCOTSMAN SLEEPING IN SAME BED
http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=3D74622005
Fri 21 Jan 2005
>From high school janitor to a high-flying legal career
I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM TODAY
WHO? Douglas Mill
REALITY :SCOTLAND LEADING LEGAL CROOK WHO HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
WHAT? CEO, Law Society of Scotland
REALITY:DELUSIONAL PSYCHOTIC
What exactly do you do? I head the organisation which promotes the
Scottish solicitors' profession for the public and the 10,000
solicitors in Scotland. We have 120 employees in Edinburgh, working on
everything from regulation to law reform, education and training, and
professional practice.
REALITY:RESPONSIBLE FOR WIDESPREAD LEGAL FRAUD THROUGHOUT SCOTTISH
COURTS
Why? Because I want to! I worked in private practice for 18 years, was
a council member of the society and had a part-time post at the Centre
for Professional Studies at Strathclyde University when the job of CEO
at the society came up. It was the ideal job for me and brought
together my work and experience. The Law Society was established in
1949 and I have had only two predecessors - it was a once in a career
opportunity.
REALITY:DERANGED AND INFLATED VIEW OF HIS MASONIC PERSECUTION SYSTEM
OPERATING FROM DRUMSHEUGH GARDENS
What was your first senior position? I became a partner with Cameron
Pinkerton and Haggarty in Paisley, aged 25.
REALITY:EXTRA -TERRESTRIAL FROM THE LIZARD FAMILY
What's your motivation - love or money? My notary public motto is
"honore et labore". I suffer from a fairly major streak of good old
west of Scotland work ethic. I am not an eccentric millionaire and with
three children my wife and I work to pay the bills. My main motivation
is a combination of real belief in the law and the organisation, desire
for change and fear of letting anyone down.
REALITY:TO FLEECE AS MANY INNOCENT SCOTTISH CITIZENS WHO GET CAUGHT UP
IN CIVIL LITIGATION VORTEX's PERPETRATED BY HIS LEGAL GOFFER LAWYERS
Was your first job pocket money pennies or first rung on the ladder? My
first job had nothing to do with law. As summer relief school janitor
at Staneley Green High School in Paisley, I was paid to drink unlimited
amounts of tea, read books and chase kids away when they came to cause
trouble. Not a traditional starting point for a law career!
REALITY:FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH LEGAL CROOK PROTECTION NETWORK
Was yours a seamless logical progression or did fate lend a hand? I am
not a fatalist but I do think careers are largely about luck and
timing. With different timing my career would have turned out very
differently.
REALITY:HE HAD THE RIGHT FUNNY HAND SHAKE
What has been the single most important stage of your career?
Responding to the Law Society of Scotland job advert in the summer of
'96.
REALITY:THE GODFATHER OF SCOTLANDS CROOKED LEGAL SYSTEM
What stage has been most challenging and why? Each stage of development
of the society into a robust open, transparent and accountable body has
its own challenges. In just over seven years there have been tremendous
internal changes to the organisation as well as external change with,
for example, the Scottish Parliament.
REALITY:HOW DOES AN OBNOXIOUS DEVIOUS AND EVIL CRETIN GET AWAY WITH SO
MUCH CRIMINALITY
What has been the essential element that has got you where you are
today? Mettle.
REALITY:HE MISPELT THIS SHOULD READ" MENTAL"
Any life changing magic moments along the way? Yes many, but in
retrospect, none more so than parenthood.
REALITY:HIS BIRTH AS SCOTLANDS ANTI CHRIST
Any regrets? None - though I am pleased that the law graduates of today
have much wider opportunities. I went to Glasgow University in 1975
when about 90 per cent of the class entered the legal profession - and
most of them went back to their home towns to practice law. That is a
paradigm which has gone.
REALITY:NOT STEALING ENOUGH ASSETS FROM THOSE HE HAS MADE VULNERABLE
OVER YEARS OF LITIGATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
What do you like least about your job? When change happens too slowly.
Also, the fact that the international reputation of Scotland, its legal
system and its lawyers is second to none but the national feel good
factor is marginal.
REALITY:NOT FILLING UP HIS SWISS BANK ACCOUNT QUICK ENOUGH THROUGH
SHADY DEALINGS WITH MARSH UK THE LAW SOCIETIES MASTER POLICY INSURANCE
BROKERS.THE HARDEST INSURANCE POLICY IN THE WORLD TO MAKE A CLAIM
AGAINST.
Minimum 12-hour day or out the door by five? A basic 8am to 6pm with a
fair amount of evening functions and weekend conferences.
REALITY:24 HOURS A DAY CHIEF LAW SOCIETY CROOK AND BOTTLE WASHER
Early bird or night owl? When I was studying it was always late night
stuff, but now that vital hour in the office between eight and 9am is
what keeps my head above water.
REALITY:DOESNT LOSE ANY SLEEP DESPITE THE MILLIONS OF POUNDS THE LAW
SOCIETY RIPS OFF OF PEOPLE EVERYDAY IN SCOTTISH COURTS.
Technogeek or technophobe? Neither. I am amazed at how much e-mail has
changed my working life over the last three or four years.
REALITY: TECHNOCROOK
Best under pressure or well chilled? The pressure end of the spectrum.
There is a point beyond which stress is counteractive but I'm one of
those people who likes to be "in the zone" to keep on my toes.
REALITY:BEST WHEN STEALING FROM THE THOUSANDS OF BANK ACCOUNTS HE GETS
ACCESS TO VIA HIS PARTNERS IN CRIME AT THE LEGAL AID BOARD
Numbers or pictures? Numbers
REALITY:NEITHER MONEY IS ALL
Team player or lone wolf? Team player.
REALITY : MOST HATED LAW SOCIETY DIRECTOR CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY YELLAND
AND WHO BOTH MAKE HITLER LOOK LIKE A MODERATE
You've won the lottery, what do you do? Never bought a ticket. Never
will. I believe in living the life you have to the full and making life
happen for you rather than playing games of chance with the future.
REALITY:DOESNT NEED TO DO LOTTERY HE MAKES MORE MONEY STEALING FROM
PARTY LITIGANTS USING HIS CROOKED SYSTEM
Your dream job? This is the one I dreamed of - but if someone offered
me a million pounds a year to save Scottish rugby or Scottish football
I would have to think about it.
REALITY:HE HAS THE DUBIOUS HONOUR OF BEING THE UNTOUCHABLE MAFIA HEAD
OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
Perfect recipe for winding down? A good blast of Bruce, Zeppelin or U2
in the car home. A trip to the cinema with my wife, Christine. A good
curry, or 18 holes on challenging links with a friend.
REALITY:WINING AND DINING WITH HIS FELLOW CROOKS AT SCOTLANDS JUDICIAL
OFFICES
Best well-kept secret? 64 St Mirren shares!
REALITY:CANT SAY SWORN TO SECRECY FROM HIS ENTERED APPRENTICE OATHS
=B7 This column is inspired by and dedicated to the late actor John
Barron, who played CJ, the boss with the famous catchphrase, in the
1970s BBC comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
REALITY: MILLS IS THE ORIGINAL REGINALD PERRIN
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http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/31118.html
Ombudsman supports Law Society over complaint against Mill
PAUL ROGERSON January 10 2005
THE Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman has backed the Law Society's
decision not to follow up a complaint against its chief executive,
Douglas Mill, lodged in the aftermath of a Herald article last October.
Aberdeen man David Emslie, a long-standing critic of the legal
profession, wrote to Mill in October to lodge a complaint of
professional misconduct against him personally. Emslie's letter
followed the disclosure of evidence suggesting the governing body for
Scotland's solicitors wanted to consult a multinational insurance firm
to discuss an individual compensation claim brought by a member of the
public - contradicting what MSPs were told at a public inquiry.
An internal memo revealed that senior figures at the Law Society sought
a "summit meeting" about the claim with Marsh UK, broker of its
so-called "master" insurance policy - which provides insurance for
all compensation claims against Scottish solicitors arising from
negligence, fraud or dishonesty.
In Marsh's submission to Parliament's Justice 1 Committee in 2001,
Alistair Sim, a Marsh executive, stated: "The society is not involved
in the handling or resolution of individual claims." The memo, sent the
previous month, was written by Mill to Martin McAllister, the then
president. The document discusses complaints against solicitors brought
by Stewart and Susan Mackenzie, from Pitlochry. The memo discusses not
only the merit of the complaints, but the character of the Mackenzies.
Mill told McAllister: "I have discussed the matter with Alistair Sim
and I think a holding letter is ideal ... there is a saga here." He
added: "The Mackenzies, I would say, are different from some of our
other complainers in as much as they have several valid claims, they
have been let down by a series of solicitors, but they are unreasonable
in their expectations of quantum etc. Rather than trivialise matters I
would recommend that the four of us i.e., you, me, David Preston
(vice-president) and Alistair Sim ... have a summit meeting on the
up-to-date position looking at both the complaints and claims aspects.
"There is no doubt Mr Mackenzie is (an) intelligent and well-organised
individual (sic) who could, unlike some of the other thorns in our
flesh, come over very well at (an) investigation." The full text of the
memo only became public last year following intervention from former
SNP leader John Swinney, the Mackenzies' MSP. He claimed to The Herald
that it "flatly contradicts the arms-length relationship between the
society and its insurers, which is often cited as a means of suggesting
the law society is powerless to affect the decisions of its insurers."
In his complaint to - and about - Douglas Mill, lodged on October
28 last year, Emslie accused the society chief of "blatantly conspiring
with the professional insurance body against the public interest".
A case manager in the society's client relations office was assigned to
the complaint, as is routine. She wrote to Emslie on November 11,
highlighting the fact that because Mill had not acted as Emslie's
solicitor, the society could only look at a complaint of professional
misconduct. But she added that for this to be validly investigated, she
had to see if Emslie "had an interest" in making the complaint. Her
conclusion was that he did not, because he was not "directly affected
by something the solicitor has done or said".
Her conclusion was supported by a law society "sift panel", which
consists of a solicitor and a non-solicitor.
Emslie then passed the matter to the ombudsman, Linda Costelloe Baker.
In her written ruling on the matter, delivered to Emslie just before
Christmas, the ombudsman decided that the society had acted reasonably.
She said: "The legislation that governs the way the law society handles
complaints says that the complainant must have an interest to make a
complaint. There is no formal definition of what that means, but the
society has adopted my interpretation, which is that the complainant
should have been directly affected by something that the solicitor has
done or said. While Mr Emslie has made complaints about solicitors, he
has not been directly affected by Mr Mill, who takes no direct part in
the process an who, in any event, is acting for the law society, not as
an individual." She added: "Having seen a copy (of the memo), it is not
about him (Emslie), he is not named as being a thorn in the law
society's flesh, and while it might be stretching my role somewhat, I
suspect he was not included even by inference as "thorn". He has not,
therefore, been directly affected by the contents of that memo."
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