Year of Call: 1999
Areas of Practice:
- Personal Injury
- Clinical Negligence
- Professional Negligence
Una Doherty
Prior to calling to the Bar in 1999, Una worked as a litigation solicitor for ten years with a broad range of practice. For five years, she was a partner in the litigation department of a busy Edinburgh firm of solicitors. As an advocate, she has a varied civil practice. Her areas of experience include personal injury, clinical negligence, non-clinical professional negligence, and commercial disputes.
Una has extensive experience in acting for both pursuers and defenders. She appears regularly in the Court of Session and in the Sheriff Court. As part of her Sheriff Court practice she has appeared at Fatal Accident Inquiries. She has also appeared before the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and before the Professional Conduct Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council where she has both prosecuted and defended.
In 2011, Una was appointed as a Legal Assessor by the General Teaching Council of Scotland. As such she provides legal advice to the committee which conducts hearings to decide complaints of professional incompetence and misconduct against teachers.
Una is an Instructor on the Faculty of Advocates' training courses for new intrants to the Faculty.
A selection of the reported Court of Session cases in which Una has appeared is listed below:
- Aitchison v City of Glasgow Council 2010 SC 411 - reclaiming motions before five judge bench on the proper construction of s17 Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973
- Wilson, Petitioner 2008 SLT 753 - judicial review of Police Appeals Tribunal decision - standard of proof - powers of that tribunal as review body - whether correct to interfere with decision of misconduct hearing
- Wilson v BAE Systems Plc 2007 Scot (D) 10/6 – damages for personal injury - pursuer tripping while at work and sustaining injury - whether breach of Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - whether contributory negligence
- Donaldson v Hays Distribution Services Ltd 2007 CSOH 31- damages for personal injury - pedestrian in the loading bay of a shopping centre struck by reversing articulated lorry
- Patterson v Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 2004 SCLR (P) 1062 - damages arising out of alleged medical negligence - failure to diagnose significant neurological compression resulting in cauda equina syndrome
- Christie v Bank of Scotland 2003 (D) 3/9 - cautionary obligations - reduction of guarantee and standard security granted by husband and wife - loan by bank to business in which wife director and company secretary - wife averring no involvement in business - whether relevant averments of reduction - whether wife personally barred from seeking reduction
- Graham v East of Scotland Water Authority 2002 SCLR 340 - widow's claim for damages in respect of her husband’s death - whether occupier of land containing artificial reservoir has duty to fence off its shores - Occupiers' Liability (S) Act 1960
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