Andrew Pickering

Barrister Profile

Andrew specialises in personal injury, professional negligence (in particular clinical and legal) and civil actions against the police.  Andrew also practises from the chambers of John Benson QC at Atlantic Chambers in Liverpool. 
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Qualifications

Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA English); City University, London (DipLaw)

Professional Membership

PIBA (Northern Circuit Representative)

Interesting Cases

Taylor v Home Office (1992) - Industrial disease related to asbestos exposure during wartime gas mask manufacture; Parrott v Jackson [1996] PIQR P394 (CA) - Advising in the appeal concerning automatic strike out under CCR Ord.9 r.10; Perrin v Short [1997] PIQR P426 (CA) - Automatic strike out under CCR Ord.9 r.10; Smith v Wyre Forest DC (1998) - Highway Authority not liable in respect of pavement guttering design; DG Honeywell v Beckwith & Beckwith (1998) - Material damage; DJR Peters v Mann (1998) - Negligent treatment by osteopath; K Goddard v Isle of Wight Health Authority (1998) - Causative effects of negligent non-treatment of haemophiliac; Cassin v Bexley LBC (1999) 1 LGLR 810 (CA) - Liability of Highway Authority for removal of traffic signs on police instructions prior to a demonstration; Lowe v Home Office - Consolidated actions in respect of asbestos exposure whilst manufacturing gas masks in the period before the Second World War.