Jenny Dickson

Information about the specialist

jenny.dickson@mfmac.com

Practice Areas

HEALTH AND SAFETY - Jenny is the partner who heads up our Health & Safety team. She has particular expertise in handling Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAI), having acted in some of the most high profile FAIs in Scotland.

Jenny is known for having been the principal solicitor advising the Air Accident Investigation Branch in the Clutha Bar and Sumburgh FAIs. These were both hugely complex and important inquiries, the two helicopter accidents having taken the lives of 14 people between them. We continue to use this experience, for example, in current fatal cases involving deaths in custody and live ammunition accidents.

Jenny acts for companies who require health and safety advice on their operations, as well as acting for the regulator - the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). For the HSE, Jenny and her team conduct Notice appeals. These are the purest form of health and safety work. The HSE serve Notices under health and safety legislation.

PERSONAL INJURY - MAINLY DEFENDANT

Jenny Dickson is the Head of our Department and is instrumental in our successes at retaining clients in this area. Jenny is particularly well known for her work on industrial disease cases. She is an active member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (the premier industry group in this area), sitting on their Disease Sector Focus Team. She manages the defence of hundreds of asbestos-related disease claims at any one time - for clients such as the Ministry of Defence and Royal Mail.