Andrew is a Director and Solicitor within the Litigation Department specialising in property litigation.

Andrew acts for a range of property owners, developers, and occupiers across the commercial, residential, and agricultural sectors.

Key Skills

• Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals
• Disputed rights of way and boundaries
• Possession claims
• Adverse possession and trespass
• Dilapidations
• Disputed break clauses
• Rent and service charge disputes
• Professional negligence claims

Experience

• Acted for a Housing Cooperative in a case that proceeded to the Supreme Court on the question of uncertain terms and life tenancies in common law
• Pursued a complex possession claim against a high net worth individual involved in a £70m investment fraud and resulting in international tracing and enforcement
• Advising a national chain of tanning salons in relation to their portfolio of premises and advising on opposed and unopposed commercial tenancy renewals
• Pursued a misrepresentation claim for a commercial developer of a site subject to concealed contamination
• Advised a chain of pharmacists on contested forfeiture and legal remedies relating to multiple premises
• Acted for a South African commercial property investor and advised in relation to their portfolio of properties, including dilapidations claims and injunctive remedies against national UK retailers
• Represented a landowner in a substantial boundary dispute between two Warwickshire landowners resulting in a reported judgment on whether T-marks on deed plans denote ownership or repairing obligations
• Advised tenants in a multi-let block in London in relation to the enforcement of landlord repairing obligations and defective section 20 notices

Memberships

• Member of the Property Litigation Association
• Member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
• Member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association
• Fluent in Danish and Spanish

Outside of work

Outside of work, Andrew enjoys fell running and mountain ultras, his longest single stage race to date having been 145 miles. He has competed in ultras across the Alps and the Dolomites, and is regularly to be found running in the Brecon Beacons.