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Balfour + Manson LLP

54-66 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 1LS, SCOTLAND
Tel:
Work 0131 200 1200
Fax:
Fax 0131 200 1300
DX:
ED4 EDINBURGH
Web:
www.balfour-manson.co.uk
Email:
Edinburgh, Aberdeen

Alfred J Tyler

Tel:
Work +44 131 200 1210
Email:
Balfour + Manson LLP

Work Department

Litigation.

Position

Chairman of Balfour + Manson LLP and member of firm’s management board, specialising in personal injury, medical negligence, and commercial litigation; has significant experience in multi-party actions, and high-value personal injury and medical negligence claims with a particular interest in brain injury and cerebral palsy cases. Fred recently acted for the vast majority of the relatives of those killed in the Nimrod crash in Afganistan.

Career

Articled Balfour + Manson LLP; qualified 1975; partner 1978.

Member

Criminal Injuries Appeal Tribunal; convener of the Personal Injury Panel of the Law Society of Scotland. Court of Session Rules Council, Court of Session Personal Injuries User Group, Lord President’s Advisory Committee on Fees, Law Society of Scotland Civil Justice Committee.

Education

Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh; Edinburgh University (1973 LLB).

Leisure

Golf.

Practice Areas

Clinical negligence - claimant; Litigation - commercial; Personal injury - claimant

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