Effective from 19th July, our Edinburgh office at 16 - 20 Castle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3AT, will be temporarily closed as we are in the process of relocating. During this period, there will be no staff at this office.

Please be assured that it is business as usual. You can continue to contact your solicitor by phone or email for any assistance or to discuss your case. We appreciate your understanding and are committed to ensuring that our services remain uninterrupted during this transition.

Claim Now

To ensure we give you the most tailored advice regarding your data breach enquiry, we kindly request that you complete our specialised enquiry form. You can access the form
by clicking on the following button: Click here

Click here to return to the previous window

Jean-Claude Mas the founder of the PIP breast implant company has been found guilty of criminal fraud in a French court. Mas was the mastermind behind a huge conspiracy which distributed defective breast implants around the world. He has been sentenced to four years in prison. PIP's sale of faulty implants caused a global health scare which affected about 300,000 women in 65 countries. Many of these women continue to suffer horrific health problems caused by the implants. Apart from Mas, four other former PIP executives were convicted and given lesser sentences.

Reacting to the sentence, Trisha Devine, who leads the PiP Implants Scotland Campaign said “The sentencing of Mas to four years in jail goes some way to recognising the huge pain and anxiety his crimes have caused. Women all over the world have suffered and continue to suffer terrible health problems because of this Patrick McGuiremans greed. He conned people into putting dangerous industrial chemicals into their body while all the time lying about the safety of his products. The ladies in the PiP Scotland Campaign will continue to fight to make sure that this can never happen again. We are all victims of crime and we need the Scottish health minister, Alex Neil, to hold a proper enquiry to see what lessons can be learned and to use the powers he has to properly regulate cosmetic clinics.”

Patrick McGuire from Thompsons Solicitors who represents many of the Scottish women involved in the PiP scandal said “Mas and his accomplices’ perpetrated a fraud which had the most enormous impact on the health of women all round the world. It beggars belief he could have got away with this for so long and chances were missed to stop him. If any good can come of this awful crime then surely we must  take the opportunity to properly regulate cosmetic procedures in Scotland’s private clinics. The Scottish Government must act to protect people from potentially faulty medical products.”

ENDS

Notes to Editors

•    About 300,000 women in 65 countries are believed to have received PIP implants. Europe was a major market but more than half went to Latin America. They were not sold in the United States. 42,000 British received PIP implants.

For further information please contact Peter Henderson 07887 687 318 

Injured through no fault of your own?
Call us on
To see how much you could claim
Compensation Specialists
Our offices and meeting places
Talk to Thompsons
Claim Now