Kings Chambers

Andrew Latimer appears in the Business and Property Courts and in recent years has appeared 3 times in the Court of Appeal without a leader and also as a junior in the Supreme Court.

Andrew’s business cases including unfair prejudice petitions and other claims to vindicate shareholder rights; claims for breaches of directors’ duties; breaches of trust and fiduciary duty; breach of warranty disputes, often arising after the sale of a business; partnership disputes, including disputes within solicitors’ own partnerships; litigation over commercial contracts and disputes about the scope of remedies such as specific performance, taking accounts, assessment of damages and unjust enrichment.

Andrew’s property cases include access to neighbouring land to build a new roof on Leeds Opera House; easements at the Richard Seifert-designed Gateway House at Manchester Piccadilly station; removing liens over the Fox Street Village development in Liverpool; recreational easements at Broome Park, the home of Lord Kitchener until 1916;  litigation over the lease at Haigh Hall in Lancashire, a Grade II* listed building; and an easement through airspace to take off and land aircraft in Northumberland.

Trustee of the Kings Chambers and Ian Mark Cooper Trust (2018)

Treasurer, Northern Chancery Bar Association (since 2018)

BSB External Examiner for Commercial Litigation (2013-16)

Committee Member, Northern Chancery Bar Association (since 2011)

Attorney-General’s Panel for Civil Litigation (2000-2007)

Chancery Bar Association, NCBA, R3 (associate member)

Hertford College, Oxford (1990-94)

BA (Jurisprudence) – 1st class (1993).  Joint winner of University Land Law prize

BCL (1994)

Holt Award, Gray’s Inn (1995)