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Andrew McLaughlin

McLaughlin@12kbw.co.uk

Position

Andrew is a leading senior junior in the fields of personal injury and industrial disease recommended in Chambers UK and the Legal 500 for over 20 years. Andrew continues to practise from St John’s Chambers in Bristol but is instructed nationwide by Defendants. He is known above all for being a formidable trial lawyer. He is ranked as a band 1 practitioner in personal injury and is listed as a disease expert in Chambers UK Spotlight table. He has been a member of the Government panel (‘Treasury Counsel’) since 2012. In 2018 he was appointed to the ‘A’ panel which is reserved for counsel expected to conduct work on the Government’s behalf involving millions of pounds against QCs.

Andrew is instructed by all the  national firms nearly always on behalf of defendants and their insurers, especially in cases involving fundamental dishonesty, catastrophic injuries, amputations, fatal accidents, chronic pain disorders, serious psychiatric injuries as well as asbestos-related disease, HAVS, occupational stress, sexual abuse and WRULDs. He has been involved in numerous reported or high profile cases in recent years. He opened the appeal on behalf of the successful defendants in Denton v TH White. He appeared for the Defendant in Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board [2022] EWHC 455 (clinical negligence), Walkden v Drayton Manor Park [2021] EWHC 2056 (fundamental dishonesty), Arshdeep v Buttar Construction [2021] EWCA Civ 1408 (interim payment tetraplegia), ATX v CRS and DPS (2019) Kemp Quantum (severe child brain injury and tetraplegia), Smith v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWHC 1954 (asbestosis), Stewart v Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust [2017], EWCA Civ 2091 (manual handling), Dyson v Heart Of England NHS Trust [2017] EWHC 1910 (clinical negligence), Smith v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWHC 1954 (asbestos). This year he comprehensively defeated a well known QC in a £1.6m fundamental dishonesty claim to widespread national acclaim.

Andrew acts primarily for defendants in complex clinical negligence cases.

In addition, he defends public authorities against claims for misuse of private information, breach of confidence and breach of Data Protection legislation.

Career

Call 1993