Betul Milliner

Legal Director

Bristol

Betul specialises in resolving commercial disputes and in defending misselling and professional negligence claims.
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About Betul

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  • Biography

    Betul specialises in resolving commercial disputes and in defending misselling and professional negligence claims. She also advises on managing reputational risks arising from defamation and harassment.

    She has over 14 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including health and social care, financial services and insurance. Her key clients include private hospitals, health and social care providers and commissioners and medical insurers, as well as financial advisors and wealth management firms.

    Betul also advises clients across multiple sectors to manage reputational risk arising from defamation and harassment. She regularly helps clients to protect their reputation by removing libellous reviews and comments on social media, as well as defending defamation claims. She also obtains injunctive relief to protect her clients from harassment.

    Relevant experience includes:

    • Advising the Secretary of State for Health on a multi-million pound breach of contract dispute with a supplier of business processing services.
    • Acting for an NHS Trust in a high profile dispute with an environmental waste company over a “Body Parts Scandal”.
    • Defending a leading wealth management group in a £16 million claim by multiple investors in connection with property development and tax schemes.
    • Acting for the directors of a company in a £10 million claim in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme.
    • Acting for an NHS Trust to successfully defend a defamation claim brought by a doctor following a referral to the General Medical Council about their fitness to practise.
    • Acting for a medical clinic to prevent defamatory allegations by a former patient being published in two national newspapers.
Sector Expertise
  • Financial Services

  • Health and Social Care

  • Insurance

Service Expertise
  • Banking, Restructuring and Insolvency

  • Dispute Resolution

  • Professional Liability

Office Location

Bristol Skyline

Bristol

  • DAC Beachcroft LLP
  • Portwall Place, Portwall Lane
  • Bristol, BS1 6NA

+44 (0) 117 918 2000

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