Ambitious plans for a new online television show featuring Edinburgh locals receiving live on-air legal advice look to have been abandoned after a firm led by the brother of singing star Susan Boyle backing the project was closed down.
Viewers of Crowd-Law TV were able to pay an £85 a year subscription for the right to call a panel of experts based in the vacant old Royal High School as part of the ‘innovative’ Judge Rinder-esque experience promoted by SuBo’s sibling Gerry.
Mr Boyle claimed the broadcast would “disrupt the legal sector like never before” prior to the stream launching in 2019 after signing up a host of big name firms to appear as pundits.
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However the enterprise quickly hit the rocks amid claims callers to the weekly live event were redirected to a premium phone line offering racy chat in Hindi instead.
It now appears the show has been killed off altogether after a Companies House filing on March 30 this year applied for the company to be voluntarily struck off the register.
According to a press release, lucky participants in the broadcast “may have [their] particular case taken on, in court if required, with no legal fee being charged” if they were selected.
Edinburgh Live reached out to several of the personnel claimed to be participating in the project for comment, but received no official response.
The show’s website has also since been shut down, with visitors greeted by an error message.
A City of Edinburgh Council spokesperson confirmed “initial talks” over the use of the iconic 19th-century building on Calton Hill were held before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, however were not revisited following the first lockdown.
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The facility - which was once proposed as a location for the Scottish Parliament - is now set to be transformed into the ‘world class’ St Mary’s Music School as part of a £55 million refurbishment.
Mr Boyle, 67, of Musselburgh, left his post as director of the company on March 27, according to official documents.
His previous ventures included streaming service ‘Internet World Television,’ which went bust in 2018, while plans to manufacture the historic Excalibur vehicles in Dundee also failed to get off the ground over concerns they were “not eco-friendly enough”.
