Andrew Burrell

Andrew gained experience of various public law matters during the non-practising part of his pupillage. He assisted with drafting opinions, pleadings and pre-action correspondence about:

• age assessment cases related to asylum-seekers
• ordinary residence under the Care Act 2014 and section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983
• duties to accommodate children under section 20 of the Children Act 1989
• duties owed to care leavers under the Children Act 1989
• recovering fees from former care home residents under the Care Act 2014.

Andrew also assisted with the research and skeleton arguments for 2 recent judicial reviews:

• R (Begum) v LB Tower Hamlets [2025] EWCA 1049, a Court of Appeal hearing about whether a local authority’s database of households living in unsuitable temporary accommodation indirectly discriminated against women (supervised by Genevieve Screeche-Powell)
• R (RB Kensington & Chelsea) v NHS North West London ICB [2025] EWHC 889 (Admin), a judicial review over whether the NHS was required to co-fund a children’s home placement (supervised by Rebecca Davies)

Before studying law, Andrew was an adviser to the Liberal Democrats on a wide range of public policy areas, including education, political reform, business, trade and social security. He ran internal training on parliamentary procedure for the party’s 2024 intake of MPs.

During his time as a High Court Judicial Assistant, Andrew worked on a modern slavery judicial review and a statutory planning review relating to an oil field.

Alongside his studies, Andrew volunteered for the School Exclusion Project, where he successfully appeared before an Independent Review Panel to appeal a child’s exclusion from school.

During the non-practising part of his pupillage, Andrew experienced a wide range of Court of Protection cases. He assisted with drafting orders and position statements in cases involving:

• Section 21A appeals against standard authorisations in care homes
• deprivations of liberty in the community
• forced marriage protection orders and port alerts.

Andrew is instructed regularly by both landlords and tenants in first possession hearings and in housing disrepair cases. He has been instructed in cases involving:

• rent arrears
• anti-social behaviour, including closure orders and anti-social behaviour injunctions
• successions, and
• the validity of section 8 notices and notices to quit.

Andrew is instructed regularly in Family Law Act proceedings and private Children Act proceedings.

He is keen to develop his practice in children’s public law.

• During pupillage, he was instructed as second counsel in a 5-day final hearing where the local authority alleged that the mother’s overprotectiveness delayed the child’s development.
• He was the drafter of the Kinship Care Bill, a Private Member’s Bill proposed in 2022 to strengthen the rights of special guardians and other kinship carers.
• While working in parliament, Andrew coordinated the Liberal Democrats’ response to the Independent Review on Children’s Social Care.

During the non-practising part of pupillage, Andrew gained experience of a wide spectrum of children’s and financial remedies proceedings, including private law fact-finding hearings and contested divorce and financial remedies proceedings.

Andrew has a niche interest in litigation arising under the Solicitors Act 1974:

• During pupillage, he represented a firm of solicitors to successfully recover unpaid fees from a former client. The trial dealt with issues about the validity of statute bills and the court’s approach to assessing the reasonableness of a solicitor’s fees under the Act and at common law.
• During the non-practising part of his pupillage, Andrew assisted with drafting the skeleton argument in Santers Solicitors Limited v Law Society [2024] EWHC 3003 (Ch). This is thought to be the 1st successful application under Schedule 1 of the Act to withdraw an intervention notice against a solicitor (assisting John McLinden KC and John Critchley).

As a High Court Judicial Assistant, Andrew assisted extensively during the trial in InterDigital Technology Corporation v OnePlus Technology (Shenzen) Co, a case about the ‘Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory’ cost of 4G and 5G mobile network patents. He also assisted with 2 cases concerning trade mark validity and infringement.

As a High Court Judicial Assistant, Andrew assisted extensively with the judgment in Leonard v Leonard [2024] EWHC 321 (Ch) and [2024] EWHC 979 (Ch), a contentious probate case about testamentary capacity.

Andrew is keen to build a practice in ecclesiastical law. His article on the impact of ECHR Articles 8 and 14 on Church of England burial arrangements was published in the peer-reviewed Ecclesiastical Law Journal. He was a finalist in the first Inner Temple Ecclesiastical Law Moot.

• Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies (City, University of London) 2021-2022, Distinction
• Graduate Diploma in Law (City, University of London) 2020-2021, Distinction
• BA Human, Social & Political Sciences (University of Cambridge) 2013-2016, 2.1

• Stephen Seabrooke Memorial Prize (2022), awarded by City Law School for exceptional performance in the advocacy assessments on the Bar Course
• Inner Temple Bar Course Exhibition Scholarship (2021)
• Inner Temple GDL Exhibition Award (2020)

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