BTO Solicitors LLP

Insurance, personal injury.

Partner and Solicitor Advocate

Catherine is a Solicitor Advocate with over 30 years’ experience in personal injury work, principally defender reparation for the insurance industry. She heads the firm’s expanding catastrophic injury team with Carly Forrest and Garry Ferguson.

Catherine handles complex and catastrophic high value cases.  These include brain and spinal injury, amputations, and fatal claims for some of the UK’s largest insurers.  Her caseload includes RTAs, employers’, public and product liability, and clinical negligence, including cases with an international dimension. Her cases regularly involve claims for multi-million pound sums.

Litigated cases include the fatal jury case of Towers v Flaws and Another, child brain injury case Anderson v Imrie and Vibert v Zenith Insurance and Another, a catastrophic brain injury case where she successfully challenged a claim for contribution from another defender where there were allegations of cars racing each other.

She frequently becomes involved in cases almost as soon as an accident has been reported and works with clients to co-ordinate investigations, rehabilitation and devise an action plan for the earliest and best possible resolution for the client.  She has good relationships with her opposing solicitors and favours a collaborative approach to negotiating effective solutions for her clients.

Catherine is the Scottish representative on FOIL’s Catastrophic Injury Special Focus Group.

Qualified 1987; BTO Solicitors LLP, Partner (2003 - present); Admitted as a solicitor advocate 2007.

English.

Law Society of Scotland; FOIL (Forum of Insurance Lawyers).

Glasgow University, LLB Honours (1984).

Walking, theatre and dancing.