Education & Professional Qualifications
Lord Reid Scholarship (2008 - 2009)
Diploma in Legal Practice, 2006, University of Edinburgh (2006)
LLB with Distinction, 2005, University of Edinburgh (2005)
Winner (as senior team member) Anderson Strathern Mooting Competition (2004) Clark Foundation for Legal Education Award (2003-2005)
BA (Hons) (First Class), 2003, Napier University (2003)
University Medal for Law (awarded annually to the exceptional graduate) (2003)
Lexis Nexis Law Prize for Honours Dissertation
Professional Career to date
Devil Masters: Alastair Duncan, Ronaldo Renucci.
2009: admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
2008 - 2009: Devilling
2006 - 2008: Simpson and Marwick, Edinburgh
Helen spent two years working in litigation at Simpson and Marwick. She gained experience across a broad range of contentious work, and in particular of professional negligence and professional regulatory cases. She regularly appeared in the Sheriff Court.
Professional Experience
Helen is regularly instructed by the professional indemnity insurers of solicitors and advocates. She also occasionally acts for pursuers in claims against legal professionals. She acts on behalf of the defender in clinical negligence claims.
She has been instructed in claims involving professionals working in the construction industry, including surveyors, architects, engineers, and contractors. She is increasingly instructed in claims against accountants, auditors, and fund managers.
She also acts on behalf of professionals in relation to regulatory matters, and has particular experience of representing solicitors in disciplinary proceedings.
Helen acts in a variety of commercial disputes. She has been instructed in matters relating to contracts, property, agency, and unjustified enrichment.
Helen has experience of conducting fatal accident inquiries, both acting on her own, and with Senior Counsel. She was instructed as Junior Counsel to the Crown in the Rosepark Nursing Home Fatal Accident Inquiry, the largest FAI ever conducted in Scotland.
Cases
Glynhill Hotel v Dundas and Wilson CS LLP 2011 CSOH 195
Rosepark Nursing Home Fatal Accident Inquiry
The inquiry was to establish the cause of the Rosepark Care Home blaze, in Uddingston in 2004.