3 Hare Court

Andrew Young is the senior junior in chambers and has been a member of 3 Hare Court and its predecessor, 1 Crown Office Row, throughout his career at the Bar.

In his early years, he had a broad based general common law practice that included personal injury, contract, landlord and tenant, employment and family law work, but more recently his practice has concentrated on personal injury cases, especially those with a foreign element; professional negligence cases against doctors, solicitors, fine art valuers and other professionals and on professional regulatory work.

He has many years’ experience of handling foreign accident and illness cases, including multi-party claims, and frequently acts in cases involving complex issues of jurisdiction and conflicts of law. In recent years, he has developed a special expertise in acting for claimants who have suffered injuries or illnesses while working overseas, particularly for international security companies and in the oil industry. He has immense experience of the Package Travel Regulations and he recently acted for the claimant in the leading case on food poisoning claims against tour operators, both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal

He also acts for claimants in high value domestic employers’ liability personal injury claims.

Andrew is an appointed PIcArbs panel arbitrator.

Called to Lincoln’s Inn 1977; author ‘Famous Names in Crime’; published Solicitors Journal.

French, German.

LCLCBA; British German Jurists Association; PEOPIL; PIBA.

Shrewsbury School (1964-68); Goethe Institute (1968); University of Grenoble (1969); The Queen’s College, Oxford (1969-72).

Music, singing, foreign travel, skiing and architecture.