4 King's Bench Walk

: Contract, Commercial and Tort; Property (including Landlord and Tenant); Personal Injury; Professional Discipline and Regulation; and Costs.

Barrister, Head of Civil

Andrew has over thirty years’ experience advising and representing clients in courts and tribunals at all levels up to the Supreme Court. Since 2014 he has been Head of Civil Litigation at 4KBW, having previously been Chambers’ Manager from 1999 to 2001.

Andrew practises in the following areas: Contract, Commercial and Tort; Property (including Landlord and Tenant); Personal Injury; Professional Discipline and Regulation; and Costs.

In October 2014 he became the first member of 4KBW to be elected to the Bar Council. He is a long-serving member of the Bar Council’s Ethics Committee, having previously also been on its Training for the Bar, Legal Services and Access to the Bar Committees. He has written or contributed to over a dozen guidance papers published on the Bar Council’s Ethics Hub.

In January 2011 Andrew was appointed one of only three Bar Standards Board approved providers of public access training for barristers. His other appointments include Legally Qualified Chair of the Taxation Disciplinary Board, Independent Assessor for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Legal Assessor to the ICAEW, NMC, GOsC, GCC and GPhC, and Legal Adviser to the ACCA and GDC.

Andrew read law at Cambridge and graduated from Bar School in 1987 in the top 10% of his year. As a student he won the Gray’s Inn Debating Trophy and represented the Inn on its Mooting Tour of North American universities. During pupillage at 4KBW he worked for the Court of Appeal as an external summary writer.

Andrew is one of a small number of barristers authorised by the Bar Council to conduct litigation.

Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Personal Injury Bar Association

MA (Cantab) in Law

Semi-professional musician. Double bass player with the Coal Porters and the Seagrass Band