About Andrew

Specialist barrister, mediator, arbitrator, negotiator and evaluator with over 40 years of experience in work concerning business, commerce, construction, finance, partnership, professional negligence and property.

Investor in businesses.

Writer of cartoons, stand-up jokes and routines.

Former money and corporate finance broker in the City of London, still having contacts in the financial industry.

Founder of Portsmouth Barristers’ Chambers.

One of the first English barristers to become an accredited commercial mediator in 1998. An experienced mediator who has conducted over 1,500 mediations. An experienced arbitrator who has conducted dozens of private (ad hoc) arbitrations domestically and internationally. An experienced specialist advocate representing parties in mediation, arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes in thousands of cases.

Pioneered the use of hybrid dispute resolution processes, such as Arb-Med.

Appointed Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2001. Admitted to the freedom of the City of London in 2018. Admitted as Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators in 2019 and elected as Court Assistant in 2024. Sits on the ADR Panel of the Bar Council and on the International Committee Africa Sub-Group. Current Chair of the UK Southern Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Public Access, Licensed Access and International Practice work undertaken.

To those who know him in the dispute resolution and business community, Andrew is known as “The quiet man on the corner” and by the tag-name “Lucky Andrew.”

In real life, cases do not fit into neat categories. Nor do the means of resolving them. A key advantage to instructing Andrew is that he is versatile, having experience and expertise in overlapping categories of work, not only in litigation but also in mediation and arbitration.