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Andrew joined Blake Lapthorn in June 2007 from Trowers &
Hamlins to head the Environment team.
Andrew specialises in environmental law and has extensive
experience of contaminated land, waste management, environmental
insurance and other environmental matters. He regularly advises
local authorities, multinational companies, NGOs, housing
associations, charities, UK-based companies on international,
european and UK environmental regulation. Andrew is immediate past
chairman of the UK Environmental Law Association, Convenor of
UKELA’s Contaminated Land Working Party and a member of
Environmental Protection UK's Land Quality Committee. He has
written for various publications and he regularly lectures on a
wide range of environmental issues. He is on the editorial board of
Environmental Law and Management published by Lawtext, is a former
editor of Garner’s Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law and
Butterworth’s Environmental Law Bulletin.
Andrew has been appointed by the Minister of State for Trade,
Investment and Foreign Affairs to sit on the Advisory Council of
the Export Credits Guarantee Department, is a Director and Trustee
of Environmental Protection UK and also is Chairman of the London
Borough of Islington’s Climate Change Fund Advisory Panel.
He is acknowledged as a leader in the field of environment in
Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession 2007, which
refers to him “as being without question a leader on contaminated
land” and “admired for his ability to explain issues ….. in a calm
and clear fashion”.
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