Legal watchdog fines mum’s solicitor
did not explain to her how the legal fees and courts costs were deducted from her final compensation payout.
Watson was censured for poor bookkeeping, organisation, and client record keeping at the hearing in the capital’s George Street on September 4. The successful claim for compensation was broughtg against g NHS Lanarkshire by Watson in 2011 after the baby’s death in 2008. It is not the first time a grieving family have raised concerns about the lawyer’s handling of medical negligence cases. In November, we told how the parents of a toddler who accidentally hanged herself on a blind cord had accused Watson of withholding the ful l compensation and keeping them in the ddark. MMuireann McLaughlin died aged just two after trapping herself in a looplooped cord in a bedroom in her homhome 10 years ago. DDad Angus and mum Kate, from MeMenstrie, Clackmannanshire, claclaim Watson, 64, still owes them £1010,000 from a £100,000 payout ththey were awarded by insurers acacting for the blinds company. Watson did not respond to our requestre for a comment.