Andrew Haggis > Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton > Liverpool, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton
St John's Buildings
38 VERNON STREET
LIVERPOOL
L2 2AY
England

Work Department

Family - Children

Position

Andrew specialises in family proceedings. He acts for parents and guardians in public law.

Andrwe regularly acts for parents, Local Authorities, children and other family members and has extensive experience in complex cases including those involving non accidental injuries, sexual abuse, and fabricated illness.

Career

Andrew studied law at Sheffield University, qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and practiced in Liverpool dealing as an advocate principally with criminal law, family and mental health tribunal matters.

When the Children Act 1989 came into force in 1991 he began to specialise in family cases, both private and public law, was one of the first members of the Law Society children panel, and gained higher rights of audience in civil proceedings in 2003.

In 2007, Andrew was called to the Bar.