About
Provided by BTO Solicitors LLP
Our Professional Discipline team has vast experience in dealing with complaints against the medical, dental and nursing professions. We represent professionals before their regulators, including interim orders and fitness to practise proceedings, in relation to misconduct, deficient professional performance, adverse physical or mental health and criminal convictions.
Team members appear regularly at the GMC and GDC and conduct their own advocacy before the Interim Orders Tribunal or Committee.
We represent:
- All types of healthcare professionals during NHS Counter Fraud Service Investigations, at Performers List and Dental List Suspension Hearings, during NHS Disciplinary Investigations, at Disciplinary Tribunals, in criminal proceedings and in investigations by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman.
- Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
- Architects before the Architects Registration Board on instructions from professional indemnity insurers.
- Solicitors in disciplinary matters with the Law Society of Scotland.
- Nurses before the NMC
- Social care professions before the SSSC
- Teachers before the GTCS
Experience: advising on police interviews and reports to the Crown Procurator Fiscal, providing employment regulatory advice for registrants with criminal convictions: drink driving, fraud, assault and abuse.
Also appear on behalf of clinicians at Fatal Accident Inquiries throughout Scotland and in Public Inquiries in Scotland, Northern Ireland and UK wide.
Ranked Lawyers at
BTO Solicitors LLP
Scotland
Members
Provided by BTO Solicitors LLP
Adam Boyle
Cara Docherty
Caroline Carr
Duncan Mawby
Jill Harris
Head of Department
Laura Salmond
Natalie McCartney
Phoebe Crane
Sophie Lennox
Clients
Provided by BTO Solicitors LLP
British Medical Association
Medical Protection Society (MPS)
Royal College of Nursing
The Medical Defence Union Limited (MDU)
The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS)
The Scottish Police Federation
Industries
Provided by BTO Solicitors LLP
Accountancy
Architecture
Dental
Education
Health Care
Legal
Medical
Nursing
Professional Services
Social Care