Profile
Andrew Buchan specialises in clinical negligence and personal injury cases. He has successfully taken to the House of Lords the two leading cases on bullying and stress: Waters v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Barber v Somerset County Council. As a result Legal 500 2004 described him as "A leading junior in stress claims".
However, Andrew does all types of personal injury work. He is keen to maximise damages for Claimants or minimise them for defendants. He is the co-author of Schedules of Loss: Calculating Damages (Tottel, 2nd edition 2005)and is the Editor and co-author of "Personal Injury Practice, the guide to litigation in the County Court and High Court" (4th Edition published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2003).
In the employment sphere, Andrew was instructed to intervene on behalf of the NUT (on questions of European law) in the case of Eastwood and another v Magnox Electricity plc (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).
Qualifications
LLB (Leeds)
Cases
Eastwood and another v Magnox Electricity plc
Ref: [2004] UKHL 35 Date: July 2004
Walker v Co-Operative Insurance Services
Ref: [2003] EWCA Civ 632 Date: July 2004
Barber v Somerset County Council
Ref: [2004] UKHL 13 Date: April 2004
Waters v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
Ref: [2000] UKHL 50 Date: July 2000