3 Hare Court is ‘an excellent set in relation to travel claims and all injury claims relating to accidents abroad’. Recent instructions for the personal injury team include Katherine Deal KC representing the claimant, a reality television personality, who was injured in a fall during filming a reality show in Argentina and subsequently brought a claim against a Californian television production company. The claim involves complex issues of validity under Californian law, as the client had signed a waiver in advance of filming, and Argentinian legal issues involving safety on set. In a separate matter, Andrew Young acted for a claimant who had suffered a serious head injury while on a package holiday in Austria, after she slipped on ice on a mountain path and slid down a glacier.
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Andrew Young is the senior junior in chambers and has been a member of 3 Hare Court and its predecessor, 1 Crown Office Row, throughout his career at the Bar.
In his early years, he had a broad based general common law practice that included personal injury, contract, landlord and tenant, employment and family law work, but more recently his practice has concentrated on personal injury cases, especially those with a foreign element; professional negligence cases against doctors, solicitors, fine art valuers and other professionals and on professional regulatory work.
He has many years’ experience of handling foreign accident and illness cases, including multi-party claims, and frequently acts in cases involving complex issues of jurisdiction and conflicts of law. In recent years, he has developed a special expertise in acting for claimants who have suffered injuries or illnesses while working overseas, particularly for international security companies and in the oil industry. He has immense experience of the Package Travel Regulations and he recently acted for the claimant in the leading case on food poisoning claims against tour operators, both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal
He also acts for claimants in high value domestic employers’ liability personal injury claims.
Andrew is an appointed PIcArbs panel arbitrator.
Career
Called to Lincoln’s Inn 1977; author ‘Famous Names in Crime’; published Solicitors Journal.
Languages
French, German.
Memberships
- LCLCBA
- British German Jurists Association
- PEOPIL
Education
Shrewsbury School (1964-68); Goethe Institute (1968); University of Grenoble (1969); The Queen’s College, Oxford (1969-72).
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