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Andrew Buchan
Work Department
Personal injury, employment (disability discrimination).
Position
Barrister who has been specialising in personal injury since 1984. He has successfully taken the two leading cases on bullying and stress (respectively) to the House of Lords: Waters v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [House of Lords] 2000 bullying at work; Barber v Somerset CC (stress at work); in the employment sphere he has been instructed to intervene on behalf of the NUT (on questions of European Law) in the case of Eastwood v Magnox (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. CEDR-accredited mediator.
Career
Called 1981; co-author of Butterworths ‘Personal Injury Practice’, ‘The Guide to Litigation in the County Court and the High Court’ sixth edition (March 2014), co-author of Butterworths ‘Personal Injury Schedules’, third edition 2009; editor of Lewis & Buchan on ‘Clinical negligence’, seventh edition (Bloomsbury, 2013); has lectured widely on the subject of occupational stress and bullying claims including to the EEF, TUC, HSE, the Welsh Assembly and the International Stress Managers Association.
Languages
French.
Memberships
PIBA; PNBA; ELBA; Bar Council 1995-2003; BIICL.
Education
Leeds University (LLB Hons).
Leisure
Sport, military history, politics, economics.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Andrew Buchan – Cloisters ‘The doyen of stress at work claims.’
Cloisters are ‘a top set‘ for ‘high-value’ personal injury work, with notable strength in catastrophic injury claims arising from road traffic accidents. William Latimer-Sayer KC continues to be an expert in this area, leading Chesca Lord – a quantum specialist – on a number of complex claims including a case in which the claimant, at 13 years old, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury following a road collision, securing interim payments as the claim continues. Andrew Buchan has particular expertise regarding occupational stress claims; Tamar Burton specialises in the assessment of damages.