Medical Negligence

  • Acting in a £10 million medical negligence claim in the Court of Session.

  • Acting for individual surgeons, GPs and paediatricians in a number of complex Fatal Accident Inquiries.

  • Representing a pharmaceutical company and Opthalmic surgeons in the defence of Court of Session proceedings involving allegations of negligence in the performance of LASIK surgery.

  • Acting in Court of Session proceedings that involved allegations both of medical negligence on the part of general practitioners and also of professional negligence on the part of solicitors.

  • Defending actions brought in the Sheriff court against individual plastic surgeons.
    Acting for chiropractors and individual medical practitioners in regulatory and disciplinary proceedings before the GMC and the GCC and in appeals to the Court of Session.


  • Representing the interests of prison doctors at Fatal Accident Inquiries.

  • Providing advice and representation to consultants and health board staff in disciplinary investigations by their employers.

  • Acting on behalf of health professionals at NHS tribunals.
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