Gordon Dalyell
Digby Brown LLP
Digby Brown LLP
Client SatisfactionHousing a sizeable team of highly experienced practitioners spread across the firm’s seven offices in Scotland, the practice at Digby Brown LLP is collectively steered by Fraser Oliver, Brian Castle, Mark Gibson, Gordon Dalyell, Chris Stewart, Euan Love, and Dawn McCafferty. Praised as ‘the best personal injury firm in Scotland’, the team regularly handles complex occupational injury and related cross-border litigation, with ’impressive breadth and depth of experience’ in historical abuse claims, catastrophic injury and occupational hazard mandates. Neil Davidson is another key contact in the team and assists on RTA cases.
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‘The team is excellent. They have a strong commitment to being the best in the sector and doing the best for their clients. There is a particularly strong commitment to high quality training for all members of their team and that shows through in the success that they have.’
- 'Fraser Oliver - there is not a better managing partner. Always thinking and always listening. The success of Digby Brown stands in part on his shoulders.’
‘By some distance the best personal injury firm in Scotland. They put far more resource into their cases than any other firm and have excellent systems in place.’
‘The team has impressive breadth and depth of experience. Every case is prepared to the very highest standards, leading to excellent results for clients time and time again.’
‘Market leaders in pursuer personal injury. They investigate and prepare cases like no other practice. Partners and associates understand what is going to be important in a case and follow lines of inquiry through to a conclusion.’
‘The stand-out firm for personal injury work. Experience and expertise beyond compare, and each solicitor gives huge effort to every case.’
‘The team are fully focused on pursuer personal injury work, so they have great expertise in this area. They have a dedicated catastrophic team, which has meant that the key individuals in that team have a level of knowledge in this particular area not seen in other firms.’
'Gordon Dalyell has dealt with some of the most sensitive and challenging cases litigated in the last 20 years. He has a strong sense of justice which is his clear and singular motivation.'
Key clients
- Spinal Injuries Scotland
- Asbestos Action
Work highlights
- Secured £1.67million for disabled man who suffered compound fractures to both legs after being tipped from his wheelchair by an agent during a manually escorted disembarkation from an airplane.
- Acted in an employer's liability case where we secured £1.2million for an aircraft mechanic who suffered a brain injury due to an accident at work.
- Acted in a RTA case where we recovered £1.675million for family of a woman who was killed by a driver who ran a red light.
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Fraser Oliver, Brian Castle, Mark Gibson, Gordon Dalyell, Chris Stewart, Euan Love, Dawn McCafferty