Elaine Motion

"Elaine Motion heads the firm's litigation practice and is a prominent figure in the sector. She advises on civil liberties matters in the personal care sector."
Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession 2010

Elaine Motion heads up the firm’s 65-strong Litigation team and is on the firm's Management Board.

Qualifying as a solicitor in Scotland in 1986, she spent a number of years in New Zealand and became both a barrister and solicitor there, before returning to Scotland in 1993 to join Balfour+Manson.

Elaine was assumed as a Partner of the firm in 1997. She has a wealth of experience in a number of areas of Litigation, including:

Elaine is a Solicitor Advocate (Civil) which means that she is able to represent clients in the Court of Session, and United Kingdom Supreme Court, when it is in their best interests to do so.

A consultant in the charity sector recently wrote of Elaine and her team: “We have worked closely with Elaine (and her team) over the last number of years and have found their service to be exceptional… We have used a number of firms over the years but on finding Balfour + Manson we have never gone anywhere else.”

She is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), The Society of Solicitor Advocates, the Medico-Legal Society, the Association of Regulatory Lawyers and a trustee of the vCJD Trust set up by the Government to compensate victims and families of those who contract vCJD.