Trial and appellate advocate instructed in cases of murder, terrorism and serious and historic sexual offences. Recent cases acting as advocate for the Appellant in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) include HNF [2022] EWCA Crim 859 in which a conviction for being concerned in the supply of class a drugs was quashed on the grounds that the trial judge had made a substantial error in directing the jury concerning a defence under s45 the Modern Slavery Act 2015 for those under the age of 18.Also represented the Appellant in the recent Court of Appeal cases of Grimwood [2021] EWCA Crim 8 and AA [2019] EWCA Crim 1307 and where multiple convictions were overturned in both cases as a result of errors in summing up and wrongly admitted bad character evidence. Appeared before the Divisional Court in a leading case stated appeal on police powers of arrest Ali – v- DPP [2009] EWHC 3353 (Admin) in which the Court quashed convictions on the grounds of errors of law. In 2013 he was led junior in a landmark case of R-v G & F [2012] EWCA Crim 1756 in which convictions were overturned and which is now a leading case on the law on half time submissions in the Crown Court.In R-v- DA [2022] Andrew appeared as junior alone at the Central Criminal Court where he was successful in a half time submission on a charge of manslaughter and achieved not guilty verdict for an offence of assisting an offender.Andrew is instructed in cases of alleged misuse of police powers of arrest and detention and recently in R-v- KD [2022] where he was successful in a trial where the issues concerned the misuse of police powers of stop and search under S23 Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, reasonable force and the freedom of expression under Article 10 of European Convention of Human Rights.