Andrew Noble

As a dually qualified barrister at law and chartered surveyor, Andrew offers sound legal and tactical advice and can often bring innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions to problems in hand.

Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1992, Andrew was reappointed Treasury Counsel in October 2003, a position he held for more than 7 years. Before being called to the bar, Andrew was an experienced Chartered Surveyor (FRICS) and former branch chairman of both the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Andrew advises, drafts, negotiates and represents clients in litigation, arbitration and in ADR/mediation. He appears as an advocate in the High Court (Chancery and QBD divisions, including TCC and Commercial/Mercantile courts) and in the county courts of England and Wales. He has appeared in numerous disputes in the First-tier Tribunal (Land Chamber).

A Registered Chartered Arbitrator, Andrew has been instructed and has appeared as an advocate in a number of 1996 Arbitration Act arbitrations. He is familiar with the instruments of International Commercial Arbitration and the ICC, LCIA and DIAC rules. He is also a fully accredited Dubai International Financial Centre Advocate.

Andrew is an Accredited Mediator and Construction Adjudicator and is an experienced dispute resolver across all the areas of practice in which he specialises (which principally involve him acting in the capacity of chartered arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator or expert).

Areas of law

• Commercial Chancery
• Construction & Engineering
• Professional Liability & Related Insolvency Cases
• Defective Dwellings & NHBC/Warranty Claims

Commercial Chancery Litigation

• Land and real property, including boundary disputes and party wall advice and drafting
• Commercial, including contracts, insurance, JVs, partnerships and international arbitration

The chairman of the Bar Council appointed Andrew to resolve a multi-million-pound sterling dispute between developers and land owners involving complex Developers’ “overage” contracts (involving the determination of the meaning of the contract with a view to ascertaining the calculation of additional payments due from a developer to a former owner of significant hectares of development land).

Construction & Engineering

• Defects
• Variations
• Time and money claims in litigation
• Arbitrations and ADR, including Adjudications

Professional Liability

• Surveyors
• Architects
• Engineers
• Brokers
• Office holders
• Lawyers
• Accountants

Defective Dwellings & NHBC/Warranty Claims

Andrew has been heavily involved in the leading multi-party litigation.

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association
• Property Bar Association
• Insolvency Law Association
• Technology and Construction Court Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• RICS’ Pyramus & Thisbe Club (Party Walls)

Personal Interests

Music, melodic jazz (esp. violin), the interaction between gardening and cooking, reading and teaching.

FEES:

Andrew's charges are £300 per hour plus VAT where applicable. A considerable part of Andrew's work is for international clients, based overseas where VAT is not applicable. Andrew is always happy to provide an estimate of costs or quote a fixed fee and confirn the VAT position before any work is carried out. Andrew is very flexible when it comes to fees, turnaround time and flexibility.

SERVICES:

Please see “profile” tab for description of the legal services provided by this barrister.

We aim to complete and return all paperwork within 14 days (2 weeks) of receipt if no specific deadline is provided. We can work to much faster timescales if requested or we can agree a specific target date for each individual circumstance. We will always advise at the outset if counsel is unable to meet any deadline.

Each barrister has a standard hourly rate for their work. The individual hourly rate can be agreed when instructions are acknowledged if preferred. We welcome early discussion as to the suitability of a specific barrister for a specific case. The right barrister will have the relevant expertise to deal with the case but will not be too junior, or too senior depending on the complexities.

We aim to allocate all cases to the correct level of experience & seniority which we believe will prove most to be the most cost effective solution for our clients.

If, due to urgency, we allocate paperwork to a more senior member of Clerksroom, we will charge the appropriate hourly rate for the work, not for the barrister. We welcome early discussion to ensure the correct fee is applied to the case at the outset.

REDRESS:

All our barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and hold a current practising certificate, details can be found at the following link Barristers’ Register

Complaints information

If you are not satisfied with the service provided, you can make a complaint to Chambers. Information on the chambers’ complaints procedure is available at the following link: http://www.clerksroom.com/content-html?cid=416

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from my chambers, you can make a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman. You must contact the Legal Ombudsman either within 6 months following the conclusion of our handling your complaint, within 6 years from the date of the act/omission, or 3 years from the date that you should reasonably have known there were grounds for complaint (if the act/omission took place before the 6 October 2010 or was more than six years ago).

The Legal Ombudsman’s details are as follows:

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PO Box 6806
Wolverhampton
WV1 9WJ
Tel: 0300 555 0333
Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk
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