London Bar
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
LEADING JUNIORS5Andrew Buchan - Cloisters 'The doyen of stress at work claims.'
Andrew Buchan
Personal injury, employment (disability discrimination)., Cloisters
- Phone020 7827 4000
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Work Department
Personal injury, employment (disability discrimination).
Position
Barrister who has been specialising in personal injury since 1984. He has successfully taken the two leading cases on bullying and stress (respectively) to the House of Lords: Waters v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [House of Lords] 2000 bullying at work; Barber v Somerset CC (stress at work); in the employment sphere he has been instructed to intervene on behalf of the NUT (on questions of European Law) in the case of Eastwood v Magnox (House of Lords, jurisdiction of the Employment Tribunal to deal with personal injury claims). He took Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd to the Court of Appeal in 1999, jurisdiction of employment tribunal for personal injury cases. CEDR-accredited mediator.
Education
Leeds University (LLB Hons).