Representing both claimants and defendants, Andrew has experience in a wide range of landlord and tenant disputes, including:
- Disrepair claims
- Rent repayment orders
- Tenancy deposit recovery claims
- Section 21 evictions
Examples of landlord/tenant cases include:
- High Court litigation, including a warrant of stay on a mutual million-pound property case
- Illegal evictions
- Defence of disrepair claims for private landlords
- Defending a harassment claim from a landlord
- Helping a landlord with a Section 21 notice
- Defending a case for a tenant where notices of eviction had not been served properly
Andrew has also been advising clients more widely in property disputes, including building disputes, advising on prescriptive rights over land, easement disputes, advising on a large equity claim on a property dispute involving gifts/lifetime interest, advising on the scope of a license in a commercial property dispute and a number of boundary disputes on private property. Additionally, he has helped mortgagees in cases involving possession cases, stays of execution and removal of a receiver.
Andrew has experience acting for claimants and defendants in areas such as:
- Building disputes
- Japanese knotweed claims
- Cavity wall cases
- Leaseholder disputes
- Disrepair cases related to freeholders and leaseholders
- Boundary disputes
My approach
Routinely acting for both claimants and defendants, Andrew has appeared at county court and High Court levels. His court work ranges from interim application hearings and one day trials to five day multi-track trials, complex and high-value High Court proceedings, and appeals. Andrew also helps clients with all interim applications, including costs assessments and enforcement of judgement work.
Andrew has written many published books on the areas he practices in. Unusually for a direct access barrister, Andrew can provide a full litigation service from inception to completion of the case, including costs work. He prides himself on being friendly and approachable and providing sound, commercial and practical advice to resolve disputes whilst also representing clients in court robustly where required.
About me
Andrew is a former solicitor who was called to the bar in 2011. He has over 10 years of experience as a barrister, helping both professional and direct clients in areas such as landlord and tenant cases, housing professional negligence, building disputes, contract law, personal injury, clinical negligence, insurance disputes, costs and negligence cases.