Drummond Miller LLP

Litigation

Partner

Miranda Becher is a Partner in the Litigation Department, with more than 30 years’ experience, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence claims, primarily in the Court of Session.

Renowned for her attention to detail, Miranda is rigorous in the investigation and prosecution of her client’s claims. No stone is left unturned! Over time, she has increasingly dealt with catastrophic injury cases and delay in diagnosis of cancer cases, dealing sensitively and compassionately with clients facing very different futures to those they had envisaged.

Miranda represented the pursuer in the first damages claim for rape in Scotland in the case of DC v DG & DR [2017] CSOH 5; [2017] CSIH 72, succeeding at Proof and resisting an appeal.

A number of her cases have been decided in the House of Lords (now the UK Supreme Court) and have clarified or restated the law relating to personal injury matters for legal practitioners across the UK, e.g. Simmons v British Steel [2004] UKHL 20; Spencer-Franks v Kellogg Brown & Root & Ors [2008] UKHL 46, Mitchell v Glasgow City Council [2009] UKHL 11; and McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26.

Miranda is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Personal Injury Law and by APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) as a Senior Litigator.