Kim Leslie > Digby Brown LLP > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Digby Brown LLP Offices
CAUSEWAYSIDE HOUSE
160 CAUSEWAYSIDE
EDINBURGH
EH9 1PR
United Kingdom
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Kim Leslie
Work Department
Foreign and travel department.
Position
Kim is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde and qualified in 1999. She joined Digby Brown in 2000. She is a partner within the Edinburgh office and head of the Non-Accidental team. A team dedicated to representing those abused in childhood or otherwise deliberately harmed.
She has extensive experience of all types of personal injury work and Kim is both accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Personal Injury Law and is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). She is also a member of the Ogden Working Party, was a Chair of the Civil Justice Committee for the Law Society (from 2009 – 2019) and is currently the Executive Director of Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (June 2020 – present).
As Chair of ‘Restoring the Balance of Justice’, Kim lead a campaign involving national and international experts and campaigners aiming to overcome barriers to justice in Scotland for victims of stalking and harassment.
Kim is also a panel member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (ACAL) and was Highly Commended in the Scottish Law Awards 2022.
Career
Trained Stewart and Watson; qualified 1999; partner Digby Brown 2009.
Memberships
Fellow status with Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL); Council member for Edinburgh of the Law Society of Scotland; Member of the Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL); Convenor of the Civil Justice Committee; accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in personal injury.
Education
Strathclyde University (LLB (Hons) DipLP).
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.