BTO Solicitors LLP

BTO Solicitors LLP

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BTO Solicitors LLP - Professional Negligence

Wendy Thomson

Wendy Thomson

Partner A Civil Solicitor Advocate with over 20 years’ experience of acting for Defenders in a wide range of insurance cases and for commercial and private clients in commercial and civil litigation. Acting predominantly as solicitor advocate for insurance clients for last 15 years. Personal injury practice includes a range of industrial disease cases as head of team as well as other employers’ liability cases, public liability cases and road traffic claims, including high value and fatal claims. Also has experience of cases in the Commercial court. Has acted for commercial and private clients in a wide range of commercial disputes and civil matters, including interdict and defamation cases. Wendy is one of the few Solicitor Advocates to appear regularly in the Court of Session. She conducts settlement negotiations and pre-trial meetings. Regularly instructed in cases against senior and junior counsel. Extensive knowledge of Court of Session practice and procedure and excellent reputation as an insurance litigator in the Court of Session.
Lewis Richardson

Lewis Richardson

Lewis is an Associate within BTO’s insurance team, where he focuses on defending motor, employers and public liability claims in the Sheriff Court. These include a number of claims arising from asbestos exposure. Lewis trained solely in litigation at a firm specialising in insurance defence work. Upon qualifying he moved to a firm where he appeared regularly in Edinburgh Sheriff Court as local agent in both procedural and contentious matters. He has also conducted Proofs, Opposed Motions and Appeals on behalf of his own clients in courts throughout Scotland. In addition to his Sheriff Court work Lewis has experience dealing with a wide variety of Court of Session matters. He volunteers as a tutor at the Mock Court competition for Scottish secondary schools.

Deals

  • Advising a global technical services provider in connection with multiple PI claims, core participant involvement in a public inquiry and guidance on a police investigation concerning alleged design and construction defects, and resulting public health risks, relating to two major hospital projects.
  • Advising a leading Scottish educational institution and its insurers in the defence of a claim by a commercial company for alleged infringement of its European patent.
  • Representing multiple parties (former company directors) in a potentially 8 figure D&O claim relating to alleged unlawful dividends/distributions made by a subsidiary company to support its struggling parent company

Team Services

Experts in dealing with claims/complaints of all values and best known for dealing with complex, high value, multi-party professional negligence claims.

Our market leading team, which includes two accredited specialists in professional negligence, one mediator and a certified specialist in cyber security, has 30 years + experience in representing the full spectrum of professionals including accountants, advocates, architects, construction professionals, educational institutions, engineers, IFAs, insolvency practitioners, insurance brokers, solicitors and surveyors.

We achieve commercial resolutions and our experience, coupled with strong relationships with insurers, experts and counsel enables us to tailor solutions to all professional disputes.

We also defend D&O claims and represent professionals in regulatory proceedings before their professional bodies, including the SLCC, ICAS and the ARB and provide guidance on sensitive, effective handling of risk management, PR and reputational issues.

Known for keeping clients out of court where possible via ADR but also for the successful defence of high profile reported cases for Master Policy insurers, for example, landmark cases on breach of fiduciary duty and identity fraud.

Recent work includes advising on claims arising from payment instruction frauds and data breaches following incidences of cyber fraud where home working exposed vulnerabilities in processes, client and internal communications and IT systems.