Amy Dickson > Harper Macleod LLP > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Harper Macleod LLP
CITYPOINT, 65 HAYMARKET TERRACE
EDINBURGH
EH12 5HD
United Kingdom
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Position

Partner

Amy is a partner in our Personal Injury & Reparation team. She is an experienced Personal Injury solicitor and delivers advice and assistance to insurer and individual clients in relation to pursuer and defender cases. Amy has significant experience in relation to serious injury cases, wrongful death cases, medical negligence cases, credit hire and fraudulent claims.

She carries out regular appearance work in relation to actions raised in Sheriff Courts throughout Scotland, including the All Scotland Personal Injury Court and the Court of Session. Amy has also appeared frequently before Sheriff Principals in relation to Appeal cases.

Amy provides frequent training sessions to clients and third-party organisations and provides opinions on prospects of success and valuations for pre-litigation and post-litigation cases. Amy runs our internal technical liability clinic for solicitors and paralegals in order to ensure we obtain a favourable, fair and just outcome for clients.

Amy also coordinates the Mexico country desk, part of Harper Macleod’s international offering.

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

Education

LLB (Hons) Dip LP

Lawyer Rankings

Scotland > Insurance > Medical negligence: pursuer

(Next Generation Partners)

Amy DicksonHarper Macleod LLP

With a dedicated personal injury and reparation department, Harper Macleod LLP is praised for its ‘unwavering diligence and determination to investigate every avenue‘ and regularly handles matters concerning surgical negligence, misdiagnosis, and treatment and prescription errors. Heather Calderwood leads the team, handling delay-related disputes, while Amy Dickson focuses on wrongful death claims. Craig McKellar is another key contact in the group.

Scotland > Insurance > Personal injury: defender

Harper Macleod LLP’s ‘well-organised and highly knowledgeable’ personal injury practice is situated within the firm’s wider insurance department and regularly handles industrial disease, road traffic accident and employ and public liability cases. Practice head Heather Calderwood has considerable experience in catastrophic injury and fatal claims, while ‘established and confident practitioner’ Suzanne McGarrigle is instructed on Covid-19 industrial disease mandates. Assisting with spinal injury cases and litigation, Amy Dickson is another key contact in the group.

Scotland > Insurance > Personal injury: pursuer

Harper Macleod LLP’s ‘exceptional’ personal injury team provides support to clients on road traffic accident cases, in addition to employers’ and public liability mandates and catastrophic injury claims. ‘Extremely able and experienced’ Heather Calderwood spearheads the practice, leading on employers’ liability, catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Calderwood is assisted by ‘outstanding’ personal injury specialist Amy Dickson, who regularly advises on occupational hazard matters. Craig McKellar is another key contact in the group.