About Andrew Parsons- Portsmouth Barristers Chambers

Andrew founded the Portsmouth Barristers' Chambers in 1990. He has a commercial background. Prior to practising at the Bar he worked as a money and corporate finance broker in the City of London. He has a purely civil practice. His work falls into broadly five categories:

Services Rendered by Portsmouth Barristers Chambers

Business and Commerce: Building and construction, carriage of goods by road and sea (shipping dry work & containers), company, commercial contracts, partnership.

Professional Negligence and Regulatory: Mainly concerning accountants, architects, commercial agents, auditors, brokers, financial advisers, solicitors and surveyors. He has been recommended as a leading junior in the field of professional negligence in a number of publications, including The Lawyer. He was on the former SIF Panel.

Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury:Particularly cases where there are complicated items of loss arising. (Privately paying work only - Andrew does not undertake any work on a CFA or "no win no fee" basis).

Property and Finance: Banking, boundary disputes, broking, consumer credit, corporate finance arrangements, derivatives, financial services, Inheritance Act, insolvency, landlord and tenant, loan/lease/hire purchase agreements, mortgages, pensions.

Family and Personal Finance: Complex ancillary relief and co-habitee cases (particularly involving companies, partnerships, trusts and pensions). Andrew has dealt with a number of high value "celebrity" ancillary relief cases.

Mr Andrew Parsons FCIArb of Portsmouth Barristers Chambers

Andrew Parsons is an experienced barrister, mediator and arbitrator. He founded the Portsmouth Barristers Chambers in 1990. Prior to practising at the Bar he worked as a money and corporate finance broker in the City of London. He has a purely civil practice. He has for many years been committed to the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes such as mediation as a more sensible and civilised way to resolve disputes. He sits on the ADR Committee of the Bar Council and on the Committee of the Southern Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Trade Bodies / Associations

Andrew Parsons of Portsmouth Barristers Chambers is a member of The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. The General Council of the Bar. The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Specialist Services

Business and Commerce: Building and construction, carriage of goods by road and sea (shipping dry work & containers), company, commercial contracts, partnership. Professional Negligence and Regulatory: Mainly concerning accountants, architects, commercial agents, auditors, brokers, financial advisers, solicitors and surveyors. He has been recommended as a leading junior in the field of professional negligence in a number of publications, including The Lawyer. He was on the former SIF Pan

Trading Since

1990