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Andrew Worthley - Magdalen Chambers
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Call 2004 - Lincoln’s Inn
Andrew Worthley has been a member of Magdalen Chambers since its inception in July 2013, having practised at both founding sets Rougemont and Southernhay between 2004 and 2013. He has a broad common law practice area which is now principally focused on employment work.
Andrew accepts public access work and work through the Bar Pro Bono unit. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at City University London and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andrew is co-author of Advocacy (OUP, Oxford. 2018). He has previously been a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords, external examiner at Queen’s University Belfast and a Professor in Residence at City University New York.
He regularly appears in Employment tribunals nationwide and has acted in numerous cases in the Employment Appeals Tribunal. He has represented and advised businesses, charities, individuals and local authorities in employment related matters. He has a particular interest and skill in representing parties in meditation hearings. Andrew is also a senior visiting lecturer in Employment Law on the BPTC and LPC at City Law School and appears in the Guardian newspaper as a legal contributor for employment law issues. He previously served as a Specialist Legal Advisor for Select Committee on Communications for its inquiry into the representation of women in news and current affairs broadcasting.
– Horizon Security Services Limited v Ndeze & Anor [2014] IRLR 854
– The Police & Crime Commissioner for Devon & Cornwall v Naldrett UKEAT/0401/14/DM
– Teva (UK) Ltd v Heslip [2009] All ER (D) 277 (Jul) (EAT)
– Richmond v Devon Doctors on Call [2006] All ER (D) 379 (Nov).
Andrew accepts instructions in family law matters where he retains a practice in financial remedies cases and private law Children Act cases and has a particular interest in complex TOLATA claims. He has vast previous experience of private and public law Children Act matters, having acted for parents, guardians, interveners and local authorities. Andrew lectures in family law on the BPTC at City Law School and previously taught family law on the LPC at the University of Exeter.
Andrew’s Property and Chancery practice is focused on Trusts of Land, and also incorporates matters relating to Easements Boundaries & Covenants, Rights of Way, Housing and Landlord and Tenant (residential and business). He frequently acts in neighbour disputes relating to boundaries and rights of way, Party Wall Act cases, and has experience in resolving such matters through Alternative Dispute Resolution, mediation and litigation.
Andrew also has extensive experience in the area of implied trusts, proprietary rights on cohabitation breakdown and general proceedings under TOLATA, including intervention proceedings in Financial Remedies cases. He has acted in the Court of Appeal on multiple occasions without a leader, notably in the case of Baker v Rowe [2009] concerning the overlapping costs jurisdictions of the CPR and Family Proceedings Rules in cases where TOLATA disputes are resolved through an intervention during Ancillary Relief proceedings.
– Baker v Rowe [2009] EWCA Civ 1162, [2009] EWCA Civ 860;
– “Mr Worthley fights a valiant rear-guard action.” Wilson LJ, [2009] EWCA Civ 1162
– Dhinsa (t/a Krystal Commercial) v Bance [2009] EWCA Civ 1040
2000: Dean’s Commendation (Top of year), University of Exeter.
2003: Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
2004: Buchanan Prize, Highest grade of Lincoln’s Inn student graduating from UWE.
2004: Cholmeley Studentship Award (Lincoln’s Inn)
2014: Educational Excellence Award, City University London
Andrew lives in Sussex by the sea with his wife and two young boys. He is a keen gigging musician and recording artist whose music has featured on BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music. He also enjoys sports, politics, theology, good coffee and literature, although not necessarily in that order
– Richmond v Devon Doctors on Call [2006] All ER (D) 379 (Nov)
– Baker v Rowe [2009] EWCA Civ 1162, [2009] EWCA Civ 860
Common Law/Chancery
– “Mr Worthley fights a valiant rear-guard action.” Wilson LJ, [2009] EWCA Civ 1162, para 25
BVC, University of the West of England, Bristol
LTh, University of Wales, Lampeter
Appointed Deputy District Judge to the South Eastern Circuit (2019)
Elizabeth Willsteed Christian Gape