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Compass Chambers, whose membership includes 11 leading QCs and a number of talented juniors at the Scottish Bar, offers a broad spectrum of litigation, with core strengths in reparation, regulatory crime and professional disciplinary proceedings. Compass has an affiliation with the highly rated Crown Office Chambers in London and shares many of the values espoused by them.
The stable: Members include some of the most well-instructed and highly regarded counsel at the Scottish Bar and, as a result, have considerable experience in all Scottish courts from the Sheriff Court to the House of Lords and Privy Council. Many of its members are on the panels of several leading insurers, publishers and disciplinary bodies.
An essential part of the Compass ethos is to seek to give added value at all times. To that end, Compass provides bi-monthly e-bulletins in each of its core areas; namely reparation, regulatory crime and professional disciplinary proceedings. In addition, Compass hosts an annual conference at which the most recent developments in its respective core areas are presented to a wide audience.
As an organisation, Compass is at the forefront of innovating the way in which Counsel interacts with agents and clients, and aims to offer a commercially sensitive, comprehensive and cost-effective service.
Types of work undertaken: In the reparation field members of Compass specialise in personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, property damage, insurance law and fatal accident inquiries. In the field of regulatory crime, members specialise in the defence of allegations brought under health and safety, road traffic, environmental and corporate financial legislation, and also appear regularly in fatal accident inquiries; in particular those relating to fatalities in the workplace. In the field of professional disciplinary proceedings, members specialise in statutory appeals from medical, dental and teaching panels.
In addition to its core strengths, Compass includes specialists in contract and commercial litigation, judicial review and defamation within its membership.
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