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Andrew Bershadski
Work Department
International Group Claims / Business & Human Rights, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Employment
Position
Andrew specialises in international group claims, clinical negligence, personal injury and employment work.
Andrew’s group litigation work includes acting for the defendant in Kadie Kalma v African Minerals [2020] EWCA Civ 144 in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Andrew was instructed in the Gemfields litigation involving the operation of a ruby mine in Mozambique, and is currently instructed in Wambura v Barrick TZ Ltd, which involves the operation of a gold mine in Tanzania. He has acted on behalf of over 4,000 claimants following the loss of compensation monies paid out under a settlement arising out of the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast (Agouman v Leigh Day [2016] EWHC 1324 (QB)).
Andrew has a large clinical negligence and personal injury practice. He has, for example, recently acted at trial in a case involving alleged unnecessary and unconsented-for surgery for pancreatic cancer (Sarah Pepper v Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 310) and a case in which causation of a signet ring cell colorectal cancer is disputed. His appellate work includes appearing before the Privy Council in Kamal Williams v Bermuda Hospitals Board [2016] AC 888.
Career
2010; Inner Temple.
Languages
Russian.
Education
Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, BA Law and History.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Bershadski –2 Temple Gardens ‘Highly intelligent and very hard working. He is a forceful and persuasive advocate including in the Supreme Court.’
2 Temple Gardens ‘have an impressive collection of juniors and silks‘, offering both ‘both experience and some very talented up and coming barristers‘. The set has particular experience in cross-border, multi-jurisdictional work: this year, Roger Harris, Charles Dougherty KC, Benjamin Phelps, Niazi Fetto KC and Andrew Bershadski were all involved in the case of Roberts v Various Defendants in the Supreme Court, in which the claimant, a child of a British soldier serving in Germany whose mother received care by British midwives working with German doctors, was born in a German hospital in 2000 with cerebral palsy as a result of allegedly negligent treatment; the case brings up issues relating to jurisdiction and vicarious liability. Niazi Fetto KC took silk in March 2023, and Harry Trusted joined the set from Outer Temple Chambers in January 2023.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Andrew Bershadski –2 Temple Gardens ‘Highly intelligent, well organised and very hard working. Andrew is a forceful advocate and is very good with clients.’