Andrew Burns

Barrister @Devereux Chambers

London, GB

Andrew specialises in complex commercial, employment and industrial disputes, particularly injunctions. He has featured in some of the leading appellate cases in employment law and trade disputes in recent years including Malone & Ors v British Airways Plc (the BA cabin crew litigation), ASLEF v London Midland, RMT v Serco (the key authority on strike injunctions), and Prophet plc v Huggett (restrictive covenant injunctions). He is also a leading silk in insurance and reinsurance disputes appearing in the Supreme Court in Durham v BAI (Run Off) Ltd (the Employers\' Liability Policy Trigger Litigation), in asbestos insurance cases such as Redman v Zurich and acted in litigation relating to 9/11 reinsurance disputes (Simmonds v Gammell and Allianz v Tonicstar). He acted for Royal Mail in its injunction to prevent the national postal strike (Royal Mail Group v CWU), in a number of recent airline and airport disputes and appeared for Birmingham City Council in the recent bin workers’ strike (Birmingham City Council v Unite the Union).Two of Andrew’s cases were included in Personnel Today’s ‘Six employment law decisions that will shape 2019’: Kostal v Dunkley (on changing employment contracts outside of collective bargaining) and Ali v Capita (on discrimination between payments for shared parental leave and maternity leave).Andrew is a co-author of the Law of Reinsurance with Colin Edelman QC (3rd Ed. 2021) and Bean on Injunctions (14th Ed.

University of Cambridge

MA, Law