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Andrew Pote
Date of Call 1983
RANGE OF EXPERIENCE
Andrew, a law graduate called to the Bar in 1983, specialises in Family Law and public protection cases. He has extensive previous experience as a Justices’ Clerk in family proceedings and Children Act cases, as an adviser and trainer at the Home Office and as chair of the GALRO Panel committee for Inner & North London. He has also developed a busy summary practice, both prosecuting and defending, in specialised areas such as trading standards, food safety, pollution, statutory nuisance and defending Court Martial. He is also the author of a number of published articles and is often a speaker at international conferences, last year in Londonderry and Serbia and most recently in October 2011 at a conference held at Ministry of Justice in Vilnius, Lithuania.
QUALIFICATIONS
1981: LLB (Hons) University of East Anglia
1983: Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law
1993: Diploma in Management Studies, Oxford Brookes University
CAREER PATH
He joined the chambers of Graeme Williams QC, now Julian Baughan QC, at 13 King’s Bench Walk as a pupil in 1997 and became a tenant in May 1998. He has been the Practice Leader for the Chambers’ Family Team since 2004.
He transferred to work as a legal adviser to the Magistrates’ Court in Brent from 1985 until 1997. During this time, he was seconded to the Home Office from 1989 until 1992, handling training and development and advising ministers and senior civil servants on law, practice and procedure in the Magistrates’ Courts.
From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a Justices’ Clerk’s assistant at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court.
He graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1981 and was called to the Bar in 1983 (Gray’s Inn).
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
His professional practice at the Bar has covered:
- A concentration on family work, including financial orders, financial disputes between cohabitees, private law children cases, public law children cases (instructed by local authorities, parents and guardians) and proceedings under the Family Law Act 1996.
- Experience of all aspects of criminal work, both prosecuting and defending, in the Magistrates Courts and Crown Court, and defending in Court Martial.
- Firearms and shotgun appeals.
- Advising clients and making applications for liquor licences.
- Anti Social Behaviour Orders.
- Statutory Nuisance.
- Trading Standards.
- Food Safety.
REPORTED CASES
Re P (Adoption: Leave Provisions) [2007] EWCA Civ 616
PUBLISHED WORK
Dealing with Smugglers (1982) 146 J.P. 231
Proactive Clerking or "Sans Peur et Sans Repoche (1992) 156 J.P. 227
Common Assault Sweet & Maxwell Practical Research Papers (1997)
Indecent Exposure and Outranging Public Decency Sweet & Maxwell Practical Research Papers (1997)
12th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law [2008] IFL 205
Financial Provisions and Child Equality Family Finances [2009] 665 Bea Verschragen (ed.)
Children as Criminals - Is there a right age of criminal responsibility Pravni Život 10/2010. Tom II 139
AWAITING PUBLICATION
Finality v Fairness in ancillary relief cases - A paper presented at International Society of Family Law Regional Conference: Porto [September 2009]
OTHER RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS
Who did what to whom, and why it matters - at the "Foreseeability in Child Protection" conference organized by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford [May 2010]
Child Protection Policing Paedophiles in the Community ISFL Regional Conference University of Ulster [June 2010]
Two Mothers and a Baby ISFL World Conference Lyon [July 2011]
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of Family Law Bar Association
Member of the Oxford Medico-Legal Society
Member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association
Member of the Association of Military Court Advocates
Resolution Advocacy Trainer