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Andrew Sharland KC KC
Position
Andrew specialises in all aspects of public law (commercial, regulatory, education, community care, local government, and planning and environmental law) human rights, public inquiries, public procurement and information law. He practises in English and European courts acting for private individuals, public authorities, commercial organisations and NGOs. Notable cases include: R (Bridges) v South Wales Police (Article 8 ECHR, GDPR and automatic face recognition technology in the Court of Appeal), MacDonald v UK (Private life and community care in ECHR), Kennedy v Charity Commission (freedom of information and Article 10 ECHR in the Supreme Court), R (Plantagenet Alliance) v Secretary of State for Justice and Leicester City Council (challenge to the decision to bury Richard Ill’s remains in Leicester) and DWF v Insolvency Service (public procurement and applications to lift the automatic suspension in the Court of Appeal).
Career
Called 1996, Gray’s Inn; Silk 2018. Visiting fellow on constitutional law at Brunel University 1996-98; junior counsel to the Crown (A Panel) 2011; appointed to the Treasury Solicitor’s Freedom of Information panel of counsel; appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of counsel 2011. Publications: ‘Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure’ (OUP); ‘Atkins Court forms: Human Rights’; ‘Blackstone’s Guide to Media Law & Human Rights’ (2nd ed); contributor to ‘Education and the Courts’ (R McManus QC) and Information Rights (P Coppel QC).
Memberships
ALBA; ADRL; PEBA, Procurement Lawyers Association; Council of Europe Panel of Experts on Media Law and Human Rights.
Education
Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (1993 LLB Hons first class); William & Mary College, Virginia USA (1994 LLM); Worcester College, Oxford (1995 BCL); Inns of Court School of Law (1996). Postgraduate diploma in Public Procurement Law, University of Nottingham.
Leisure
Table tennis, travelling, photography.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection: health and welfare
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Sharland KC – 11KBW ‘Andrew is very sensible, clever and persuasive.’
London Bar > Education
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Sharland KC – 11KBW ‘Andrew is brilliant with people – even very difficult clients – also, very good at getting to the nub of any issue. Very down to earth and does not attempt to upstage instructing solicitors.‘
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Sharland KC –11KBW ‘Andrew is a versatile advocate, who is never afraid to a take a novel point.’
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Sharland KC – 11KBW ‘Andrew is a robust and clear advocate, who fights for his clients and secures brilliant results. A leading silk in his practice areas.’
‘One of the top data sets in the country’, 11KBW’s ‘leading lights feature in all the prominent data protection cases and the set is at the cutting edge in this field.’ Anya Proops KC, leading Robin Hopkins, represented The Police Federation in connection with a major data breach said to have affected 130,000 of its serving officer members, having already successfully resisted an attempt by the claimants to have the court make a group litigation order. Timothy Pitt-Payne KC led Stephen Kosmin representing the claimant in Prismall v Google UK, a representative action concerning the use of medical data from the Royal Free Hospital to develop an app to detect acute kidney injury due to be heard by the Court of Appeal. In Farley & Ors v Equiniti, a multi-million pound data breach and misuse of private information claim against the police pension administrator, Andrew Sharland KC and Hannah Ready represented the defendant and successfully convinced the judge to strike out 97% of the 446 claims.