'A truly outstanding set', Maitland Chambers is well regarded for handling a broad range of property matters, as well as cases involving an overlap with company, insolvency and financial issues. Andrew Walker KC is 'incredibly persuasive with considered arguments and great gravitas'. Among the junior end of chambers, Tim Calland successfully acted for the claimants in Cooper v Ludgate House Limited and Powell v Ludgate House Limited, two major rights of light claims arising from a redevelopment project. Philomena Harrison has retired from practice.
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Position

Andrew Walker KC is a litigator, adviser and legal expert. He also sits as an arbitrator and adjudicator. In his property practice, he advises those who own, develop, protect, occupy or invest in land, and deals with property-related disputes of all kinds (including contractual and development disputes, leases, rights over land, mortgages, disputed property disposals, valuation issues of all kinds, private and public rights in the countryside, and leasehold enfranchisement claims). In his Chancery practice, he deals with company and commercial disputes in many business sectors (including shareholder and joint venture disputes, investment disputes, business sales, fraud and asset tracing, and partnerships); claims for professional negligence and other breaches of duty by business professionals (particularly in the fields of property, finance, investment and tax); securities disputes; and insolvency.

Career

Called Lincoln's Inn (1991); QC (2011); Bencher (2016). Chair of the Bar, 2018 (Vice-Chair, 2017). Elected member of the Bar Council, 2005-2016 (Chairman, Ethics Committee, 2013-2016; Vice-Chairman, Law Reform Committee, 2012-2016; Vice-Chairman, Access to the Bar Committee, 2012-2013). Winner of the Bar Pro Bono Award, 2009.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Property Bar Association, Commercial Bar Association, Financial Services Lawyers Association.

Education

Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, Elstree; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA).

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