Mark Morton > BTO Solicitors LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
BTO Solicitors LLP Offices
48 ST VINCENT STREET
GLASGOW
G2 5HS
United Kingdom
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Mark Morton
Work Department
Insurance, product liability, property and fraud.
Position
Partner and Solicitor Advocate
Mark works in BTO’s Insurance team providing advice on property disputes; construction & engineering claims; product liability and on policy coverage. He is the head of that team which comprises 4 Partners, 5 associates and others.
Mark has been a Solicitor Advocate for over 17 years and has over 25 years’ experience of working in dispute resolution. He now works principally in the role of counsel for Court of Session cases and appears in the commercial court on a regular basis. Recent work includes being junior counsel in a £19 million pound claim involving a leaking leisure centre & a defective chapel: Agro Invest v Morgan Associates; a £1.5 million claim involving defective cladding and roofing; an insurance coverage dispute: Wayne Gardner Young v RSA, claims arising from the high profile E.coli outbreak in 2016; an RTA resulting in a major oil leak: Mackenzie v DHL and Asda: and a commercial dispute about whether a product was responsible for the loss of a major strawberry crop.
Career
Partner BTO Solicitors LLP (2009 – present); Associate, BTO (2008 – 2009); Dundas & Wilson (1995 – 2008); MacRoberts (1993-1995); Trained Bishop & Robertson Chalmers; qualified 1992.
Languages
English.
Memberships
Law Society of Scotland; Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL); member of the FOIL sub-committee for Property litigation.
Education
Kelvinside Academy; Edinburgh University (1990 LLB (Hons)).
Leisure
Cycling and gardening.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Medical negligence: defender
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Social housing
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Construction