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Hugh Angus

Hugh Angus

Partner in commercial property, head of commercial department. Acting for a wide range of local and national occupiers and investors, particularly in industrial, retail and leisure, and in the third sector including community right to buy. Experienced in all areas of commercial property including advising on law reform and property-based projects in the public sector.
Shona Brown

Shona Brown

Partner and Head of Private Client Department. Shona specialises in will drafting, the creation and management of trusts, including personal injury trusts, succession planning, asset protection and tax mitigation both during lifetime and at the time of someone’s death. She is also experienced in the administration of complex and high value executries and related tax matters. Shona has expert knowledge of a broad range of matters including advance directives, powers of attorney, intervention orders, guardianship as well as access to funds orders. She has a particular interest in working with elderly and vulnerable clients and those who lack capacity and their families. Shona advises the trustees of a number of substantial trusts whose principal beneficiary is vulnerable or disabled including those who have acquired their disability though personal injury. The management of personal injury trusts means that Shona works closely with not only the trustees but health care professionals, case managers, local authorities, financial advisers and accountants.
Julie Clark-Spence

Julie Clark-Spence

Partner with over 14 years’ experience of personal injury and clinical negligence litigation, specialising in pursuing personal injury and clinical negligence claims on behalf of individuals.  She has resolved many cases for claimants in areas including road traffic accidents, accidents offshore, agricultural accidents and also surgical, GP and dental cases, as well as related health professions. Extensive experience in high value, catastrophic injury claims.
Gordon Deane

Gordon Deane

Partner specialising in commercial litigation Gordon undertakes a wide range of work involving commercial disputes. His work ranges from commercial contracts and property-related claims, to shareholder/partnership disputes and claims against professionals. As well as a varied mix of commercial disputes, over the last few years Gordon has become increasingly involved in claims against banks, particularly over mis-sold interest rate hedging products. He has developed a specialism in this field acting for individuals and small businesses against major UK and Irish banks.
Jamie Foulis

Jamie Foulis

Partner in Family Law team. Accredited specialist in Family Law and Regulation of Professional Conduct. Jamie has acted in a range of family law actions, concerning financial provision, child-related matters, cessation of cohabitation and international elements, and deals with the preparation of Agreements before and after marriage and post-separation and advising clients in connection with Guardianship matters. His caseload has included complex Court of Session divorces, largely relating to the division of matrimonial property, and actions in the Sheriff Court concerning both children and financial matters. Also experience and expertise in regulatory and disciplinary law.
Michaela Guthrie

Michaela Guthrie

Michaela is a Senior Associate and has specialised in medical negligence and personal injury work since 2015 in both the Court of Session and the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court. She has experience in complex cases involving birth injuries sustained by both mother and child, acquired brain injuries, spinal injuries, pharmaceutical negligence, surgical negligence, accidents at work and road traffic accidents. She has also had success in cases involving failures to obtain informed consent prior to medical procedures being carried out.
Robert A Holland

Robert A Holland

Partner and Head of Employment team for both contentious and commercial sides of the department. Advises individuals and companies on all aspects of Employment law, including Unfair Dismissal, discrimination claims, redundancy, and Business restructure. Solicitor Advocate and personally litigates tribunals for clients. Also a member of the firm’s successful cross department Charity / Not-for-profit team with large client following in the third sector. Special interest in Social Media Law and regular contributor to seminars in this area. Also heads up the firm's Sports Law department, and has acted for a number of Scottish Premier League players and advised prominent players and coaches in Rugby Union and Athletics.
Kirsten Knight

Kirsten Knight

Partner and accredited family law specialist. Kirsten advises client's on a wide range of work types including divorces, cohabitations, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, child related disputes and adoptions. Much of Kirsten's work involves international elements. Kirsten regularly draws upon her litigation experience in appearing for client's in Sheriff Courts and has been the principal solicitor for clients in a number of novel and/or high value Court of Session actions. She is also a trained collaborative solicitor and is keen to utilise alternative methods of dispute resolution. Kirsten has previously sat as a panel practice advisor for the Children's Panel in Aberdeen City and as a part time tutor on the Diploma in Legal Practice at RGU in both professional ethics and family law.
Ann Logan

Ann Logan

Partner with over 28 years’ experience of personal injury litigation, specialising in pursuing clinical negligence claims on behalf of individuals. Experience of high value catastrophic claims, particularly birth trauma cases, including cerebral palsy and stillbirth. Expertise includes surgical, GP and dental cases, as well as delayed diagnosis of cancer cases, and claims against related health professionals.
David McIntosh

David McIntosh

A partner in the litigation department, specialising in pursuing personal injury and medical negligence claims, David is also one of the firm’s Risk Assessment Partners for speculative actions. He has successfully resolved a significant number of claims acting for injured claimants with damages recovered ranging from several thousand pounds to 7 figure settlements. He acts for the largest teachers union in Scotland, the EIS, and regularly advises their members who have been involved in workplace accidents or have suffered from stress as a result of working conditions. He has raised a number of actions for stress claims which have been successfully litigated and clients have recovered damages after lengthy court proceedings.
Elaine Motion

Elaine Motion

Partner, Chairman and formerly head of litigation department. Wealth of experience in public and administrative law; civil liberties; professional regulation and discipline; clinical negligence (particularly late diagnosis of breast cancer); commercial litigation; acting for individuals and public bodies, including the Law Society of Scotland. Solicitor Advocate (Civil). Involved in ground-breaking cases: Article 50 case to the Court of Justice of the European Union; Cherry prorogation case; Brexit extension case; additional party in the successful Church lockdown case.
Sindi Mules

Sindi Mules

Partner in Litigation Department. Has considerable experience in Public and Administrative Law including Judicial Review, Convention Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law and appeals to Superior Courts, including to the UK Supreme Court. Managing and coordinating the work of legal teams dealing with complex and high profile cases, frequently in untested areas, some of which have shaped the post devolution legal landscape in Scotland. Sindi was a Legal Adviser to the Scottish Social Services Council Sub-Committee from 2015-2017.
Kenneth S Robertson

Kenneth S Robertson

Partner specialising in private client work, including wills, executries and powers of attorney and residential property work. Firm's anti-money laundering reporting officer.
Sarah Shiels

Sarah Shiels

Partner in Employment Department. Sarah provides advice and representation to employees and workers. She specialises in contentious employment disputes and provides advice to our trade union clients.  Sarah has been a qualified solicitor specialising in employment and discrimination law for more than 10 years. She manages a busy contentious caseload, regularly appearing at Tribunal on behalf of her clients in unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE and whistleblowing cases. Sarah also advises our union clients and their members in relation to all aspects of trade union and collective employment law. Sarah also works closely with BALPA in respect of industrial and trade union law including redundancy disputes, proposed changes to employees’ terms and conditions of employment and advice regarding balloting for industrial action. A strong negotiator she has previously participated in conciliation talks with ACAS, and a number of successful mediations to resolve disputes.Sarah has pursued cases in the Court of Session dealing with breach of contract, personal injury and professional negligence claims. She has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal successfully overturning decisions of the Employment Tribunal and has pursued Employment Appeals to the Inner House of the Court of Session. Sarah has been successful in obtaining interim interdict from the Courts in order to protect her clients from unlawful actions. Her experience in personal injury work has enabled Sarah to developed a niche practice area between employment and personal injury.  In particular, she is continuing to develop a case load in Injury to Health claims caused by discrimination at work. Sarah has successfully settled a number of psychiatric injury claims related to the treatment of employees at work. She has been involved in, and dealt with sensitively and supportively, a number of serious sexual harassment cases occurring at work, following the #metoo campaign.
David Short

David Short

Partner and head of litigation. Extensive practice acting on behalf of individuals, trade unions and professional associations. Main areas of practice include aviation accidents, work related accidents, disease cases and complex injury cases.  Has represented the Pilots Union, BALPA for over 30 years.  Past Steering Committee member of Piper Alpha and Brent Spar disasters. Has represented clients throughout the world in twenty-three air crash cases. Currently working with the Steering Committee of Malaysian Airlines MH17. He has recently represented clients in the Shoreham air crash, the Sumburgh helicopter crash and was lead negotiator in the Norwegian helicopter accident at Turoy which settled this year.  David is currently representing Kenyan tea pickers who have been injured on tea plantations in Kenya owned by a Scottish company.  Appointed as Chairman to the War Pensions Appeals Tribunal, Scotland in 2019.
Graeme Thomson

Graeme Thomson

Partner dealing with a large variety of private client work including giving advice in relation to wills, tax and succession planning, the preparation and operation of powers of attorney, the creation and running of trusts and the administration of executry estates.  He also supervises a team of executry paralegals.
Stephanie Zak

Stephanie Zak

Partner in commercial department of Balfour+Manson LLP with experience in various aspects of commercial law, including banking, funds, property finance, corporate governance and regulatory compliance but now specialising in all aspects of business and commercial property law. Experienced in a variety of sectors including, but not limited to, retail, industrial, forestry and leisure and acts for a wide range of clients from small family businesses and charities to multi-national companies, banks and larger organsiations.