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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 15:08:52+00:00

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Co-author of Schedules of Loss: Calculating Damages, the leading practitioner textbook on schedules of loss. Published the celebrated 1991 LAG Guide to Personal Injury Practice.
Andrew is a specialist in clinical negligence and other cases involving personal injury. He has experience of a wide range of clinical negligence claims from high value brain injury, cerebral palsy and missed spinal injury claims, to claims including ambulance delays, failure to diagnose meningitis, failure to diagnose leukaemia and other types of cancer, and dental negligence claims.
His experience in personal injury covers road traffic claims, including severe spinal injury claims, workplace claims and disease claims, including fatal accident claims, work related upper limb disorder claims, manual handling claims, work equipment claims, working at height claims and claims for harassment and occupational stress.
Andrew is a co-author of Schedules of Loss: Calculating Damages, the leading practitioner textbook on schedules of loss, now in its third edition. He published the celebrated LAG Guide to Personal Injury Practice in 1991 and is currently working on updating Lewis on Clinical Negligence.
In the employment sphere, Andrew has recently been working on the Working Time Directive and Regulations 1998. In the Sayers case he argued that these Regulations should give rise to civil liability at Common Law. He was 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). He also practices in employment law cases concerning psychiatric injury. He is an accredited mediator with CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution). Many of his cases settle after mediation.
He was junior counsel in the groundbreaking case of Walker v Northumberland County Council, the first successful claim for stress at work. He lectures widely on the subject of occupational stress and bullying claims, and has represented hundreds of claimants and defendants reaching settlements for both first and second breakdown cases.
"A leading junior in stress claims"
Editor and co-author of Clinical Negligence, in print, Tottel Publishers.
Editor and co-author of: Personal Injury Practice: The Guide to Litigation in the County Court and the High Court, 5th Edition 2008, Tottel Publishers.
Walker v. Northumberland County Council  1 All E.R. 737.
Sheriff v. Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd (1999) ICR 1170 – jurisdiction of employment tribunal for personal injury (discrimination) cases.
Eastwood v Magnox  3 WLR 322 HL Intervener on points of European law.
Andrew brought the first successful case of negligent sterilization of a woman with no children:Biles v. Barking Health Authority (1987) Kemp & Kemp Vol. 2 F012.
In 1993 he acted for an US Air Force Sergeant who had received negligent medical treatment on a US base in the UK: Littrell v. United States of America  PIQR p. 141 CA.
In 1995 he brought the first successful claim for damages caused by a twisting masonoeuve fracture during childbirth: Gerard v. North West Anglia Health Authority [January 1996, AVMA L&MJ].
In 1996 he brought one of the first successful cases for negligent stillbirth: Re: C, April 1996, Personal and Medical Injuries Law Letter PMILL.
North Essex District Health Authority v. Spargo  Med LR 125,  7 Med LR 221.
Forbes v Wandsworth Health Authority  1QB 402, CA.
Drury v. Grimsby Health Authority  Med LR 38- limitation, Section 33 discretion, inappropriate medical advice.
In 1997 he brought the first successful case concerning a GP's failure to diagnose a subarachnoid haemorrhage: Stasziewicz v. Nottingham Health Authority [January 1997, AVMA L&MJ].
In 1997 he brought a successful claim for the negligence treatment of a fracture by an orthopaedic surgeon: Pasfield v. South Essex Health Authority [March 1997, AVMA L&MJ].
In 1998 he brought the first case concerning cervical cancer treatment causing infected tissue and fistula formation: Re Evans  January AVMA M&LJ p. 26.
In 1998 he brought one of the first successful claim for failed sterilization. Failure of the filshie clip. Lack of histopathology evidence: Bailey v. Grimsby and Scunthorpe Health Authority  AVMA M&LJ p. 118.
He has conducted several successful cases against ambulance services e.g.: Burt v. Hereford & Worcester A. Service [September 1997 L&MJ Action for Victims of Medical Accidents AVMA L&MJ].
He has conducted many cases concerning consent to treatment e.g.: Elms v. S and Bromsgrove Redditch Health Authority and West Midlands Regional Health Authority  AVMA M&LJ 121. Posterior cruciate ligament repair/history osteomyelitis/ consent/failure of surgery. Stereotactic radiosurgery.

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