Civil Litigation, Clinical Negligence, Industrial Disease, Personal Injury, Police Law, Road Traffic Accidents
Year of Call 1987
Civil Litigation - Andrew has been instructed by a number of Police forces throughout the country in claims against them, primarily for assault, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. He also deals with contractual disputes, particularly those arising from insurance contracts.
Andrew concentrates on high and medium value claims arising out of road traffic, public liability and employer’s liability incidents.
Personal Injury - He has a particular interest in fatal accident claims (a subject upon which he lectures regularly). Recent interesting cases include a successfully mediated claim on behalf of two children, one of whom although 19 was a protected party, both of whose parents were killed in a coach crash where the father was the driver and a settled claim where the deceased wife’s decision to get back into a car which had suffered engine failure and was positioned on the hard shoulder of the motorway and which was then struck by a lorry raised difficult issues as to contributory negligence.
He is also instructed regularly in brain injury cases with recent instances including a successfully mediated claim in respect of brain injury to a young child from a difficult home where the lump sum award was £1,300,000 with periodical payments of £55,000 increasing to £112,000 prior to indexation, a claim turning upon the impact of an acquired brain injury upon a serving soldier’s ability to continue his career in the armed forces and a successful claim where the then 11 year old claimant fell through a skylight when a trespasser on school property.
He appears in a wide range of claims where primary liability or contributory negligence is in dispute in relation to accidents at work, accidents involving motor vehicles and accidents in public places.
Clinical Negligence - Andrew has a particular interest in dental negligence claims (his wife is a practicing General Dental Practitioner) and has acted in claims involving negligent orthodontic treatment and unnecessary extraction of several front teeth in a young woman, tooth loss because of untreated periodontal disease, tooth loss and protracted remedial treatment following sub-standard endodontic treatment and failed prosthetic dental treatment.
He is the author of three articles on the valuation of dental injuries.
He is also regularly instructed in wider clinical negligence claims, with recent cases involving negligent failure to convert hand surgery to open reduction and fixation, splenic tear and massive post-surgical haemorrhage following prolonged attempts at laparoscopic subtotal colectomy and delayed referral for investigation of bowel cancer leading to premature death.
Andrew has a particular interest in dental negligence claims with recent cases involving periodontal disease/treatment, endodontic and prosthetic dentistry/orthodontics and is the author of a series of papers on the valuation of dental negligence claims.
Valuation of Claim for Dental Negligence:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Andrew is frequently instructed in professional negligence claims, particularly those in respect of alleged negligent conduct of litigation by Solicitors.
As a consequence of his interest in limitation issues Andrew has frequently been instructed by both Claimants and Defendants in relation to historic sexual abuse cases.
Andrew’s involvement in public authority liability litigation goes back many years and he has been instructed by numerous local authorities (both in their capacity as Highway Authority and otherwise) throughout England and Wales.
Andrew has also been instructed for, and against, Local Authorities in England and Wales in claims in respect of employment, highway design and maintenance and industrial disease.
As part of his personal injury, disease and clinical/dental negligence practice Andrew appears regularly in costs related hearings, in particular in costs case management hearings and on substantive hearings relating to the costs of complex personal injury claims.
Industrial Disease - Andrew has lengthy and extensive experience in industrial disease litigation at advisory, first instance and appellate levels instructed by both Defendants and Claimants.
He is particularly interested in the impact of limitation law on this field and has both lectured in the topic for many years and appeared in the Court of Appeal on limitation issues in relation both to industrial disease and other areas of personal injury litigation.
Personal Injury Bar Association
Magdalene College Cambridge (BA Hons English Literature)
MA Cantab
Diploma in Law (City University)