Alan Eadie

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Alan Eadie is recognised as a leading individual in the field of professional liability, having specialised in this area of practice for the best part of 30 years.

He is well respected by clients and fellow professionals and has built a strong reputation, leading the team at BTO in its handling of complex and high value, often multi-party, professional negligence claims on behalf of solicitors and their insurers under the Law Society of Scotland Master Policy Scheme and acting for engineers, architects, quantity surveyors and other professionals across the construction sphere. He has handled many of the largest and highest profile professional negligence cases in Scotland and has been described as "everything a client is looking for”.

Alan also has in-depth experience of resolving professional liability claims on behalf of accountants, financial advisers, surveyors, contract managers, planning consultants, estate and forestry managers and educational institutions. He has also handled the defence of a number of significant D&O and management liability claims.

In addition, he represents professionals in conduct and service complaints and has represented individuals and corporate clients in the pursuit of claims against professionals for negligence and breach of contract. He is currently leading a team of BTO lawyers acting (both direct and through insurers) for one of the Core Participants in the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, representing them in both the Inquiry itself and in the numerous related disputes and court actions.

CORE mediation accreditation qualifies Alan to act as a mediator and enables him to recognise when it is in his clients’ best interests to adopt creative, solution-driven approaches. He regularly represents clients in mediations and is actively involved in training on ADR. Last year, he achieved mediation re-accreditation through the ADR Group.

Alan is recognised for favouring a pragmatic and commercial, yet thorough, approach to claims, focused on achieving his clients’ desired objectives as efficiently and economically as possible.