Hilary Steele
Hilary is Managing Director of Starling Lawyers Limited and specialises in healthcare litigation and mental health law. She has a unique clinical and legal background, working for many years in frontline healthcare (Intensive Care) before qualifying as a lawyer in 2002.
Before founding Starling Lawyers, Hilary was the Claims Lead for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland at Medical Protection Society (a world-leading ‘not for profit’ medical protection organisation). She has represented medical and dental professionals in complex healthcare litigations ranging from lower value fatal claims to high-value complex and catastrophic injury claims valued at £25 million+.
Hilary is a Solicitor Advocate with extensive experience advising clients on all types of healthcare disputes. She has been a member of Lord Armstrong’s clinical negligence working group since 2017, working on the Clinical Negligence Pre-Action Protocol and Personal Injury procedure in the Sheriff Court.
Hilary also sits on the Law Society of Scotland’s Health & Medical Law sub-committee and the Law Society’s cross-committee working group on advance directives and medical decision-making in intensive care situations.
A well-respected commentator on medico-legal matters, Hilary regularly presents at international conferences on healthcare litigation alongside high profile clinical practitioners and members of the judiciary.
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