Andrew McNamara
- Year called:
- 1992
- Email:
- andrewmcnamara@ropewalk.co.uk
- Qualifications:
- BA (History), University of Southampton; LLB, University of Leeds
- Practice areas:
- Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Disease, Regulatory, Business and Property, Employment, Local Government, Mediation
Andrew McNamara was called to the Bar in 1992.
He is a Judge of the Residential Property Tribunal and an ADR Group Accredited Mediator.
His principal areas of specialisation are personal injury, including serious and catastrophic claims, clinical negligence and housing.
Personal Injury
He advises and represents Claimants and Defendants and is frequently instructed to defend claims against local authorities.
He has extensive experience of employers’ liability, including attacks on care staff by patients in secure environments.
Clinical Negligence
He regularly acts in cases including incorrect or late diagnosis and negligently performed surgery.
Disease
He has undertaken disease work, in particular NIHL, over the whole of his period in practice.
Regulatory
He represents companies and individuals prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive in the mining and engineering industries and the general factory environment.
He regularly represents the interests of companies and individuals in the Coroners’ Court.
Local Government and Housing
He is a respected practitioner in the field of Housing law.
He advises and represents Local Authorities, Housing Associations and individuals across the whole spectrum of housing work: possession, demotion, right to buy, statutory nuisance, licensing and management under the Housing Act 2004, possession, disrepair, unlawful eviction, anti-social behaviour (including ASBO’s) and neighbour nuisance.
He has advised Local Authorities in the formulation of homelessness and allocations policies, including related judicial review.
He lectures on a range of Housing Law subjects to public and private sector solicitors.
Business and Property
He advises and represents Claimants and Defendants in contractual cases and cases of solicitors’ negligence and surveyors’ negligence.
Employment
He advises and represents Claimants/Applicants and Respondents/Defendants in all aspects of statutory and contractual employment law.
General
Away from the Bar his interests include triathlon, rugby, reading and music.
Professional Membership
Personal Injuries Bar Association.
Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Housing Law Practitioners’ Association.
Reported cases
(1) Michelle Draycott (2) Paul Maxwell Draycott v Hannells Letting Limited (T/A Hannells Letting Agents) [2010] EWHC 217 (QB); 3 All ER 411 (2010); HLR 27 (2010); L & TR 12 (2010); NPC 18; (2011) 1 WLR 1606 (first Divisional Court appeal involving the Tenancy Deposit Scheme created by the Housing Act 2004).
R (on the application of (1) AB (2) SB) v Nottingham City Council [2001] EWCA Admin 235 (Judicial Review proceedings involving a core assessment of a child and his mother’s needs, Children Act and NHS & Community Care Act, against the backdrop of alleged anti-social behaviour on the part of the child);
Longhurst Homes Limited v Dean Killen [2008] EWCA 402 (appeal against a committal to prison arising from breach of an anti-social behaviour injunction)
R v Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, Ex Parte Bennett, Independent, October 2, 2000 (Judicial Review of the CICAP’s interpretation of the notion of a ‘disabling mental condition’ for the purposes of the CICA’s tariff).
