Fiona Paterson |
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CALLED TO THE BAR 2003 |
Junior Counsel
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Professional Discipline & Regulatory Profile
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Background
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2009 Appointed to Attorney General's "C" Panel
2003 Called to the Bar
1994-2003 Solicitor practising in Scotland
1990-1991 Diploma in Legal Practice Edinburgh University.
1987-1990 Bachelor of Laws, Edinburgh University
Email: fpaterson@3serjeantsinn.com
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General Information |
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Directory Comments
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Nature of Practice
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Professional discipline
Appears on behalf of doctors and nurses before the Interim Orders Committee and Fitness to Practise Panels of the GMC and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Recent experience includes representing a dentist before the GDC, which resulted in the first appeal by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence of a Scottish healthcare professional to the Court of Session (Scots equivalent of the High Court) on the grounds that the GDC’s sanction against the dentist had been too lenient.
Appears at the HPC
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Specialist
Information
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Reported and other
cases of Interest
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R (on the application of P) v HM CORONER FOR THE DISTRICT OF AVON [2009] EWCA Civ 1367
Multiple Claimants v Saniflo-Synthelabo Ltd & Anr [2007] EWHC 1860 (QB)
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Clients
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Publications
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August 2006 onwards – contributing editor to APIL’s ‘Personal Injury Law, Practice and Precedents and Personal Injury Manual’
Edited chapter entitled “Accountability” in ‘Medical Ethics: A Case Based Approach’ by Hendry, Schwartz and Preece, Saunders (2002)
Instructed by the GMC’s solicitors, Field Fisher Waterhouse to advise on Scots Law implications for GMC’s booklet, ‘Research; The Role and Responsibilities of Doctors’
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Lectures and
Seminars
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Fiona has recently provided lectures to solicitors' firms on developments in regulatory law and the law on limitation, as well as claims under the Fatal Accident Act 1996.
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Related
Professional Activities
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Member of:
AvMA
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Justice
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Other Information
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