Andrew Parker, Partner

Andrew has been at the forefront of strategic litigation over the last five years and advises insurers on a range of emerging issues affecting injury claims. He represented the defendants in the leading CFA case of Callery v Gray and successfully defended the Claims Direct and The Accident Group Test Cases in the Court of Appeal. He defeated claimant attempts to challenge the Discount Rate set by the Lord Chancellor for future loss claims: Warriner v Warriner in 2002 and Cooke v UBHT and others in 2003. Andrew is currently engaged by insurers in the lead case on indexation of periodical payments: Singh Flora v Wakom.

As a former President of FOIL and a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, Andrew has played a leading role in monitoring such issues as the introduction of periodical payments and the effect of compensation system reforms in the USA, the EU and the Commonwealth. He was among those who presented arguments to the Better Regulation Task Force during their consultation exercise in 2004, using his extensive experience of rehabilitation, claims farmers, legal costs and other topical areas. He is now working closely with the Government on the Compensation Bill.

Andrew qualified in 1983 and has been a partner in Beachcroft and Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave since 1997, having previously been a defendant insurance partner with Keeble Hawson in Sheffield and Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham. Andrew is a member of the IUA Rehabilitation Working Party and contributed to the IUA/ABI 2nd Bodily Injury Awards Study in 1999 and the 3rd Study in March 2003. He is a Committee member of the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association and the Costs Practitioners’ Group and has recently been appointed to the Court of Appeal Civil Users’ Group.