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Spotlight on Elish Angiolini and the stories that refuse to go away
Posted on January 30, 2012 by IanPJ

Following on from the £1/2million Breach of the Peace trial to silence accusations of paedophilia amongst Scotland’s establishment figures, and the laying of a complaint against Angiolini for the use of public funds in a private legal action come new accusations of corruption and cover up at the highest levels of the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Law Reporter tells us:



INFORMATION likely to implicate Scottish Ministers & other figures in the Scottish Government involved in the awarding of ‘Dame’, the female equivalent of a “knighthood” to the Scotland’s former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC (nee McPhilomy), has been angrily withheld from Freedom of Information requests by Scottish Government Civil Servants, after leaks to the media suggested Scottish Ministers were involved “via the backdoor” in ensuring recommendations were made to London that the controversial former Lord Advocate received a knighthood for ‘her services’ to Scots law.

Almost instantaneously after receiving the honour Dame Elish Angiolini was swiftly taken on by the First Minister Alex Salmond as his Ministerial Complaints Adviser in a role seen by most as little more than an exercise to ensure Scottish Ministers are not found guilty of misconduct while in office.

Several leading figures in Scotland’s legal establishment questioned the decision to give the controversial, former Lord Advocate a knighthood while other senior legal figures connected to the Lockerbie case have condemned Dame Angiolini’s tenure as Lord Advocate as "a disastrous experiment” a period which saw some high profile disasters for Scotland’s Crown Office including the collapse of the World’s End murder prosecution where the Chief Prosecutor for the Lord Advocate ran away from the court, and judges criticised the handling of the prosecution, a scandal ranking high among other notable case losses, injustice & controversies including huge bonus payments made to Crown Office officials under Angiolini’s tenure as Lord Advocate.


If we thought that corruption was rife in Westminster, what is going on in Scotland beggars belief. Do read the whole story.


During the time of Elish Angiolini’s tenure as Lord Advocate, she employed a private law firm based in Glasgow LEVY MCRAE, which operates for clients in the notorious tax avoidance haven of the Cayman Islands and who also represented shamed former Glasgow City Council Boss & Cocaine addict Steven Purcell to “go after” an anti abuse campaigner named Robert Green. The law firm employed by Angiolini threatened several media outlets with legal action over reporting of the Hollie Greig case and Green’s campaign to out the alleged abusers, while Scottish Ministers further covered up, refusing to disclose who funded the work carried out by law firms on Angiolini’s behalf and that of others linked to accusations in the case.


After further investigations into the prosecution of Robert Green, ordered by the Crown Office under Angiolini’s tenure as Lord Advocate, it later transpired the Crown Office, Police & other public bodies have spent at least £1/2 MILLION of taxpayers money going after the anti abuse campaigner, who was recently found guilty of committing a breach of the peace just because he was ‘handing out leaflets’ asking for an investigation into claims a downs syndrome girl had been abused in Aberdeen.


Curiously, while the Scottish Government adamantly refused to release any information on the controversial recommendation for the former Lord Advocate’s knighthood, hiding behind UK Cabinet Guidance & also using the grounds secrecy was of the utmost importance, a different stance was adopted on another honours issue after accusations were raised of involvement by the First Minister in recommending SNP Party donor Brian Souter for a knighthood.