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Year of Call: 1979
Year of Silk: 1994

Areas of Practice:
- Family Law
- Property
- Personal Injury
- Professional Negligence
- Administrative

Andrew M Hajducki QC

Andrew has a general civil practice that includes reparation, administrative law and family law with a particular interest in personal injury, professional negligence, civil juries, judicial review, licensing and the law relating to children. Among cases he has appeared in are:

  • Robertson v Fife Council, 2002 SC (HL) 145, (judicial review of residential care costs)
  • McLelland v Greater Glasgow Health Board, 2001 SLT 446 (damages for unwanted birth of handicapped child)
  • Gillies v Lynch, 2006 (highest ever award in Scotland for bereavement)
  • McLean v Denny Bros, 2004 SC 656 (principles of damages for death)
  • Jacques v Jacques, 1997 SC (HL) 20 (unequal division of matrimonial property)
  • Telfer v Kellock, 2004 SLT 1290 (common law civil partnerships)
  • Highland Regional Council v British Railways Board, 1995 SLT 274 (judicial review of decision to discontinue sleeper-train service on West Highland line)
  • Moncrieff v Jamieson, 2007 SLT 989 (House of Lords) (servitude of car parking)

Andrew is also an enthusiastic juridical writer. He is the author of Civil Jury Trials (the 2nd edition of which was described in the JLSS as "a tour de force") and co-author of Scottish Civic Government Licensing Law (said in an SLT review to be 'readily accepted by licensing practitioners - as an essential addition to their libraries') and has contributed to the Scottish Licensing Handbook, Renton & Brown's Statutory Offences, The Parliament House Book and the Scots Law Times. He has his own free-access website civiljurytrials.com. According to the Legal 500 he is "highly recommended" in licensing matters and is "an expert in civil jury trials".

Andrew has served as a temporary sheriff, a safeguarder to the Children's Panel and the Scottish arbiter for the Motor Insurers' Bureau Untraced Drivers Scheme and he is a reporter for the Scottish Legal Aid Board. He is a member of the Bar of England & Wales.

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