12 King's Bench Walk

Andrew specialises in serious personal injury and professional negligence litigation and has a wide experience of advisory and advocacy work at interlocutory, first instance and appellate level.

He is particularly interested in fatal accident claims, a subject on which he lectures regularly. He acts regularly in claims in relation to catastrophic injury including both brain injury claims and serious orthopaedic injury claims.

His practice includes litigation arising out of accidents at work, accidents involving motor vehicles and public liability accidents from injuries sustained on highways to those sustained when engaging in sports and recreations.

He undertakes a significant amount of clinical negligence and dental negligence litigation, specialising in the latter in part because his wife is a practicing General Dental Practitioner.

He also specializes in industrial disease litigation focusing upon noise induced hearing loss, occupational asthma, industrial dermatitis, repeated insult back injury and vibration white finger.

Andrew has been instructed at first instance and appellate level in respect of historic sex abuse claims involving children’s homes and football clubs.

He is regularly instructed on Costs Management Conferences in Multi-Track claims of many types.

He is instructed by both Claimant and Defendant solicitors.

He is Deputy Head of Chambers and Head of the Civil Practice Group at Atlantic Chambers, Liverpool and is a former Northern Circuit Representative on the PIBA Executive Committee. He is recognised as a leading individual in the 2016 Legal 500.

Called 1987, Lincoln’s Inn; involved in the Continuing Professional Education of solicitors.

Personal Injury Bar Association.

Birkenhead School; Magdalen College, Cambridge (1985 BA Hons English; MA English); City University, London (1986 Dip Law).