Catherine Currie > 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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Catherine Currie
Work Department
Insurance, personal injury.
Position
Partner and Solicitor Advocate
Catherine is a Solicitor Advocate with over 30 years’ experience in personal injury work, principally defender reparation for the insurance industry. She heads the firm’s expanding catastrophic injury team with Carly Forrest and Garry Ferguson.
Catherine handles complex and catastrophic high value cases. These include brain and spinal injury, amputations, and fatal claims for some of the UK’s largest insurers. Her caseload includes RTAs, employers’, public and product liability, and clinical negligence, including cases with an international dimension. Her cases regularly involve claims for multi-million pound sums.
Litigated cases include the fatal jury case of Towers v Flaws and Another, child brain injury case Anderson v Imrie and Vibert v Zenith Insurance and Another, a catastrophic brain injury case where she successfully challenged a claim for contribution from another defender where there were allegations of cars racing each other.
She frequently becomes involved in cases almost as soon as an accident has been reported and works with clients to co-ordinate investigations, rehabilitation and devise an action plan for the earliest and best possible resolution for the client. She has good relationships with her opposing solicitors and favours a collaborative approach to negotiating effective solutions for her clients.
Catherine is the Scottish representative on FOIL’s Catastrophic Injury Special Focus Group.
Career
Qualified 1987; BTO Solicitors LLP, Partner (2003 – present); Admitted as a solicitor advocate 2007.
Languages
English.
Memberships
Law Society of Scotland; FOIL (Forum of Insurance Lawyers).
Education
Glasgow University, LLB Honours (1984).
Leisure
Walking, theatre and dancing.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Insurance > Personal injury: defender
BTO Solicitors LLP’s ‘very reliable and knowledgeable’ personal injury department in Glasgow is headed by Stephen Bryceland and is equipped to deal with volume claims as well as complex and high-value litigation at all levels, from pre-litigation advice through to taking cases to the Supreme Court. Solicitor advocate Catherine Currie is the firm’s key contact for high-value catastrophic injuries cases, while accredited mediator Garry Ferguson is well versed in complex, international matters and covers cases involving injuries, such as chronic pain and brain injury, as well as fatalities. Claire White specialises in employers’ liability, public liability and product liability claims with a focus on medical devices and implants.
Lawyer Rankings
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