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Andrew Lord
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Human Rights
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Andrew joined Leigh Day on qualification in 2014 and specialises in representing survivors of abuse in childhood, including in actions against local authorities, schools, a football club, cadets, and the Anglican church. Many of the cases involve complex arguments on issues such as limitation and negligence. He has also brought civil action against individual Defendants, with past success in securing a Freezing Injunction over a Defendant’s property.
While at Leigh Day Andrew has represented a number of former residents of Swaylands School, Royal Alexandra and Albert School, and Grafton Close. He has also acted on behalf of several applicants to the Lambeth Redress Scheme, and, along with Alison Millar, he has represented a number of survivors of abuse in Islington’s children’s homes. Andrew has appeared in local and national press for comment on matters of child abuse.
In recent years Andrew has developed a niche practice in representing children subjected to child-on-child abuse in schools and was the representative for “Bella”, a primary-school aged child subjected to assault by peers which was widely reported on settlement. Andrew has since commented in the media about child-on-child abuse, hosted an episode of the Leigh Day podcast on this issue, and in June 2021 he was a guest on Sky News podcast considering the issue of sexual harassment in schools. His experience in this area means that he has been invited to speak about this issue at a number of training events and conferences.
In September 2021, Andrew was named Times Lawyer of the Week after he settled the case of another young child subjected to abuse by a classmate, in which it was argued that a failure to conduct a thorough investigation and / or put in place sufficient measures to prevent further sexual assault from taking place was negligent and a breach of his client’s human rights.
Memberships
Panel member of Association of Child Abuse Lawyers; Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
(Leading associates)Practitioners at Leigh Day are ‘fearless in their mission to break new legal ground’, acting across a wide array of health and social care claims, inquests, inquiries, actions against the police and state, and judicial review proceedings. On the domestic front, the team represents individuals, NGOs, and charities, while the international and group litigation department focuses on holding big business and governments to account for injury, loss, and abuse. The latter is led jointly by Richard Meeran, a pioneer in claims against UK-domiciled multinationals, and Sapna Malik, who has built a reputation in landmark litigation against the state. Environment, immigration detention, and migrant rights specialist Jamie Beagent and privacy and data breaches expert Gene Matthews head up the human rights offering. Tessa Gregory, who has made waves in environmental litigation and matters of national security, Daniel Leader, who excels in complex multi-party claims, group actions, and torts, and Sean Humber, who focuses on privacy issues, prisoner rights, and discrimination, continue to be part of the firm’s vanguard of civil liberties defenders, as do prisons team head Benjamin Burrows and inquests lead Emma Jones. Andrew Lord, Kate Egerton, and Yvonne Kestler are further names to note.
Lawyer Rankings
- Civil liberties and human rights London > Public sector
- Leading associates London > Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Real estate > Environment
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Insurance > Product liability: claimant