Head of Public Law Team and Public Law expert who acts for individuals, businesses & public bodies who need advice across a wide range of public functions.

Partner at Irwin Mitchell
Head of Public Law

Handles general judicial review, regulation of the professions and of education and of food and medicines sectors, planning and environmental litigation.

"'Excellent' head of public law Andrew Lockley continues to go from strength to strength. His skill is in 'explaining complicated points of law very simply and always sticking to the point.'"
Chambers and Partners Directory - 2007/08

Cases of note include:

• R (HFMA and NAHS) v SoS for Health (ECJ challenge to Food Supplements Directive)
• R (NAHS) v SOS for Health (re prohibition of Kava-Kava)
• R (Robertson) v Wakefield (sale of electoral registers); Pine v Law Society (two cases) (LS Regulatory)
• R (Jarrett) v Lord Chancellor and LAB (legal aid funding for exceptional cases)
• R (Bramley) v Chief Constable of Derbyshire (search powers)

• Trained Kingsley Napley
• Qualified 1979 
• Assistant solicitor at South London high street firms 1979-82 
• Law Society of England and Wales (posts included director of legal practice and Director of corporate and regional affairs) 1982-96 
• Consultant Irwin Mitchell 1996-99
• Partner 1999 
• Chair, Special Education Needs and Disability Tribunal 
  Honorary fellow, University of Sheffield
  

• Editor, 'The Pursuit of Quality' (Tolley 1993)
• Contributor to the national and legal press
• Legal Assessor to the GMC

• Education Lawyers Association
• Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers