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Solicitor-advocate Catherine Currie heads Brechin Tindal Oatts’ personal injury team, which is ‘very strong technically’. Jill Setterington is ‘knowledgeable 
and proactive’, and Stephen Bryceland is also recommended.

HBM Sayers provides ‘strong and clear’ advice. John Morrison is a ‘clever solicitor with an ability to think outside the box’; David Taylor is ‘quiet and reliable, with a broad depth of legal knowledge’; and practice head Alastair Leggat, whose ‘reputation is rightly well founded’, is also recommended.

Simpson & Marwick is ‘one of the top insurance litigation firms’. Its PI team is divided into specialist groups covering advocacy, catastrophic injury and occupational disease matters. The Aberdeen team notably undertakes claims arising in the oil and offshore industry. Practice head Gordon Keyden is recommended, along with David Tait, Harry Boyle, Robert Leith and Michael Jones QC.

Anderson Strathern’s insurance litigation team receives instructions from employers, liability adjustors and insurers, including The Co-operative Insurance, the Coal Authority and INEOS. The team fields seven solicitor-advocates and accredited PI specialists including team co-head Douglas Keir. Fellow co-head Andrew Lothian is also highly recommended.

Andersons Solicitors LLP has ‘a strong, well-run team’ which looks ‘to break the mould of the way in which injury claims are handled north of the border’. Team head Gilbert Anderson ‘stands out as a leader’. Frank Hughes, John Maillie and Andrew Ireland are also recommended.

Biggart Baillie LLP represents insurers, insurance brokers and loss adjusters including Zurich and UKAEA. The team, led by David Stevenson, has particular strength in asbestos litigation.

Brodies LLP’s insurance group, headed by Toby Seton, is valued for its ‘excellent service and in-depth sector knowledge’, and covers the spectrum of PI claims, with specialist capabilities in health and safety, and construction. Cameron McNaught is ‘technically very able’.

Harper Macleod LLP has a ‘conscientious, experienced, keen and business-orientated’ team. Recent instructions include handling catastrophic injury claims arising from occupiers’ and employers’ liability. Elizabeth Mitchell heads the insurance group, and is recommended along with Fergus Thomson, who is ‘exceptionally knowledgeable, professional and determined’.

Morton Fraser’s PI defence team is led by accredited specialist Ewan McIntyre, and works across employers and public liability, road traffic and catastrophic injury cases. Insurer clients include AMEC, AXA and Chartis.

Ledingham Chalmers LLP’s PI defence practice is headed by Graeme Edward, and operates from offices in Aberdeen, Inverness and Edinburgh.

Mackinnons has an extensive marine insurance litigation practice.

McClure Naismith LLP’s practice head Jeffrey Hutcheson is recommended.

Paull & Williamsons LLP has particular expertise in the gas and oil industry.

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