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Duncan Mawby
Discipline: Professional Discipline and Clinical Defence; Professional Liability; Professional Liability
Position: Consultant
Location: Edinburgh
Email: dzm@bto.co.uk
Phone: 0131 222 2946
Biography
Duncan specialises in the representation of healthcare and other professionals before their professional regulators, in disciplinary proceedings and before the civil and criminal courts. An experienced advocate, he regularly represents doctors and dentists in fitness to practise proceedings, conducting professional disciplinary hearings before the General Medical Council and General Dental Council.
Duncan has also represented pharmacists before the General Pharmaceutical Council and accountants before the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy and has prosecuted professional disciplinary proceedings against teachers and social workers.
Duncan has acted on the instructions of the three main medical defence organisations for over 17 years and has extensive experience of defending doctors and dentists in clinical negligence claims in the Court of Session and the Sheriff Courts, as well as in NHS investigations and disciplinary proceedings.