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My Story ~ One Woman's Voice ~ Page 13

As far as I was concerned this whole fiasco from day one of this shameful system was flawed and wrong. I was awarded (as stated in the letter below) £750.00 compensation, from first acting solicitor for 6 counts of professionally inadequate service. I sent the lawyers the cheque back, as I don’t want money.

The lawyers defence was, that he was under extreme work pressure, and could not act competently on my behalf. As you can see, I sent the money back. I did not seek nor require the money. What I did require was proper ethical representation for my child, and stated that maybe the lawyer could use the money better than me, and go on a stress management course or a refresher course in the practice of child welfare.

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After the attack on me in court, the Scottish Court Service was committed to acting on people’s safety! They went to great lengths to provide security in the court after failed promises as stated in previous letters. They even put this article in the local paper:

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What they failed to mention was that this security was only there on a trial basis, and had only been in place for 3 weeks, and would look good to the public that they had acted. But, it was too little too late in my case.

In one of my conversations with the Scottish Court Service, they stated that there was not a demand for this service, interestingly the other family who had been referred to me via the MSP went through a very similar experience of being threatened and put in a state of fear and alarm. (The Scottish Court Service might like to see the feedback this website gathers for people tortured within this system, and act then if there is a demand for effective security to be put in place for people being a voice for their children.)

On letter dated below I wrote to the floating sheriff, who sent Reporter X in to my house:

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Here was the reply:

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On one visit in Dec ‘06 to the court, a new disclaimer had been put up in the civil office of this court and stated that - “any information given can not be guaranteed of the accuracy of the information”. (There is no coincidence that this was some sort of internal memo that was sent to safeguard the Scottish Court Service, as too much information was being unfolded as to what was being allowed to operate within this system. I was informed that the notice was always there! My companion and I must have missed it!)

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** Please observe the wording "THE SCOTTISH COURT SERVICE AIMS NOT GURANTEES peoples safety".

The only other contact I had with the police force was 2 weeks before the sheriffs judgement was due to come out. They wanted to follow up the complaint of the attack. The insulting call I took from the police, where he asked me if I had the pursuer’s phone number, as he couldn’t find it.

Why would I have the number of someone who had a power of arrest placed on them, had a history of harassment and violence against me, and 2 previous police cautions for his behaviour toward me and my children? I knew at this stage that this was just another action of the court to try and tidy up their mess. The pursuer was questioned under caution yet again, and then let go. This was his 3rd caution, but it became evident in the sheriffs judgement why the police came out to see me two weeks before the judgement was released.

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