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Band 2
Band 2
About
Provided by Andrew Latimer
Practice Areas
Business cases including unfair prejudice petitions and other claims to vindicate shareholder rights; claims for breaches of directors duties; breaches of trust and fiduciary duty; breach of warranty disputes, often arising after the sale of a business; partnership disputes, including disputes within solicitors' own partnerships; litigation over commercial contracts and disputes about the scope of remedies such as specific performance, taking accounts, assessment of damages and unjust enrichment.
Property cases including access to neighbouring land to build a new roof on Leeds Opera House; easements at the Richard Seiffert-designed Gateway House at Manchester Piccadilly station; removing liens over the Fox Street Village development in Liverpool; recreational easements at Broome Park, Kent (from trial to the Supreme Court); litigation over the lease at Haigh Hall, Lancashire; an easement to fly through airspace and to take off and land in Northumberland.
Career
Read Law at Hertford College, Oxford. 1st Class degree, 1993. BCL, 1994. Called, 1995. Recorder, 2020.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, Northern Business and Property Bar Association, R3
Publications
Commercial Litigation: Pre-emptive Remedies (contributor, 2003-2021)
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Andrew Latimer is a highly experienced junior with expertise in commercial litigation and chancery matters. He is frequently instructed in unfair prejudice petitions and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
Andrew Latimer is a vastly experienced barrister with a busy commercial practice. He handles the full spectrum of commercial dispute work and is often instructed in matters involving fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of warranty and breach of contract. His client list is a healthy mix of regional and international businesses, as well as banks.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Andrew is brilliant and clever, and he gets into the core issues. He is easy to work with and an outstanding advocate."
"Andrew has a broad range of knowledge in a number of areas and is an ideal choice of instruction in cases that cut across a number of disciplines."
"Andrew Latimer is extremely good. The only problem we have had with him is that he is too busy working on big cases!"
"Andrew has first-class technical knowledge."
"Andrew is brilliant and clever, and he gets into the core issues. He is easy to work with and an outstanding advocate."
"Andrew has a broad range of knowledge in a number of areas and is an ideal choice of instruction in cases that cut across a number of disciplines."
"Andrew Latimer is extremely good. The only problem we have had with him is that he is too busy working on big cases!"
"Andrew has first-class technical knowledge."