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Barrister > Andrew Keyser Q.C.

Photograph of Andrew Keyser Q.C.
Year of call : 1986
Year of Silk : 2006
Area of Practice :

Chancery & Commercial

Adminstrative

Common Law

Notable Cases :

TSB Bank plc v Camfield 1 W.L.R. 430 (banking; legal charge; rescission)

R. (On the application of Newsum) v Welsh Assembly Government [2005] Env. L.R. 16, [2004] EWCA (Civ) 1565 (planning; Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994; judicial review; overriding public interest)

R. (On the application of Newsum) v. Welsh Assembly Government (No. 2) [2005] 2 P. & C. R. 32, [2005] EWHC 538 (Admin) (planning; protected species; judicial review; consultation)

Smith v Buckland [2008] 1 W.L.R. 661, [2007] EWCA Civ 318 (gypsies; possession under the Caravan Sites Act 1968; Article 8 rights; public law defences)

Recommendations :

"...a hugely respected practitioner..." 
"...very direct and extremely clever."
"[he] believes it is his duty to provide as high-quality a service as he can on every separate occasion." (Chambers UK, 2010)

Education :

Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1st class hons,1985; MA, 1989)

Appointments :

Recorder, 2002

Approved to sit in the Technology and Construction Court, 2006

Approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division and the Chancery Division, 2008 (including the Mercantile Court, 2010)

An assistant Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner for Wales

Deputy Chancellor, Diocese of Llandaff

Member, the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Church in Wales

Professional Memberships :

Chancery Bar Association

Wales Commercial Law Association

Ecclesiastical Law Society

Ecclesiastical Judges Association

Publications :

Justifying Partial Rescission in English Law, (2005) 121 L.Q.R. 273 (jointly with Professor Jill Poole)

Clerk :

Jim Williams

* denotes associate member