Moira Kay > Digby Brown LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Digby Brown LLP
2 WEST REGENT STREET
GLASGOW
G2 1RW
United Kingdom

Work Department

Serious injury department.

Position

Moira is a Litigation Partner in the serious injury department. She has a specialist interest in personal injury cases involving brain and spinal injury and amputation claims.

Moira provides a legal counselling service for Spinal Injuries Scotland, BIRT at Graham Anderson House in Glasgow and at Huntercombe Neurodisability.

Moira has co-authored a publication entitled “Claiming Compensation after Head Injury in Scotland” for Headway and she is the chairperson of the Complex Injury Network Scotland.

Career

Trained Bishops; qualified as solicitor and notary public 2004; Digby Brown 2005 to date, partner 2011.

Memberships

Moira is accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) as a Senior Litigator and as Brain Injury Specialist and Spinal Cord Injury Specialist – the only solicitor in Scotland to hold both these accreditations.

She is also accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Personal Injury Law.

Education

Strathclyde University (2001 LLB Hons).

Lawyer Rankings

Scotland > Insurance > Personal injury: pursuer

With an impressive track record and significant experience acting for claimants, Digby Brown LLP handles the gamut of personal injury claims. The practice fields a large and experienced team across seven offices throughout Scotland and includes several accredited personal injury specialists. In Edinburgh, the ‘superb’ Gordon Dalyell has a broad practice that includes fatal claims and claims for miscarriages of justice, while Kim Leslie is frequently instructed to act on historic institutional abuse claims. In Glasgow, the core team includes Chris Stewart and Moira Kay, who handle catastrophic and serious injury claims, as well as Fraser Simpson, who takes point on industrial disease matters. Mark Gibson, Stuart Barton and Fraser Oliver are other key members of the team.