Betul has a broad practice with extensive experience advising on complex and large disputes. She has particular expertise in resolving disputes in the health and social care and financial services sectors, and her clients include Government departments, private hospitals and NHS organisations, as well as financial advisors, wealth management firms, and insurers.

Betul regularly advises on reputation management issues. She helps clients to protect their reputation in times of crisis, responding to press enquiries and removing libellous reviews and comments on social media, and obtains injunctions to protect her clients from harassment. She also defends defamation claims and has a broad client base advising insurers and their insureds, corporates, and public bodies.

Betul provides strategic advice on managing all aspects of both pre-action and ongoing litigation, but her focus is always on reaching commercial, cost-effective solutions and she has extensive experience in resolving disputes through mediation.

Betul’s relevant experience includes:

• Acting for the NHS to successfully defend a defamation claim brought by a doctor following a referral to the General Medical Council about their fitness to practise. This reported case affirmed that absolute privilege attaches to communications to professional bodies.
• Successfully defending a media company alleged to have defamed an international manufacturing company across multiple social media platforms and jurisdictions, involving a related consumer class action against the manufacturing company in the U.S
• Acting for a cosmetic clinic to prevent defamatory allegations being published in the national press
• Advising a secretary of state on a multi-million-pound contract dispute with a supplier of business processing services which was widely reported in the press. The case was successfully resolved via negotiation.
• Successfully defending a leading wealth management group in a multi-million-pound claim by multiple investors in connection with property development and tax schemes