Andrew Colman

Andrew Colman is a leading junior of great intellect and experience, held in high esteem for his particular ability to cut through complex issues of fact or law in order to get to the heart of the matter.

Over the past twenty years he has established a solid reputation as one of the foremost practitioners in the field of professional discipline. After presenting some of the GMC’s most serious and substantial cases, for the past decade he has deployed his expertise in the defence of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals at the MPTS, GDC, HCPTS and elsewhere. He is commonly instructed in lengthy and complex Fitness to Practise cases. He also acts for and advises regulators (for example, the GOC and GPhC) and registrants in other professions, such as solicitors.

Andrew appears regularly in the High Court, on statutory appeals, judicial reviews and ancillary matters. He is well equipped for such work by his previous experience of appellate advocacy, up to the highest levels (Privy Council/ House of Lords) and his past history of practice in extradition.

Andrew is a member of the Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers, the Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association and the Criminal Bar Association and a former director of the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund.

Andrew is recommended in the current editions of The Legal 500 and Chambers UK and won the award for Professional Disciplinary and Regulatory Law Junior of the Year in The Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2024.

Called 1980; Lincoln’s Inn; South Eastern Circuit; director of Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund 2003-11.