Fountain Court is pleased to note that Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Andrew Burrows QC as a Justice of the Supreme Court. He will take up his position on 2 June 2020. Andrew is the Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College and is a long-standing door tenant of Fountain Court (appearing in several reported cases, including — in the Supreme Court — Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2018] 3 WLR 652 and Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2012] 2 AC 337). He is particularly well-known as an expert on the law of Unjust Enrichment and for his work as a Law Commissioner between 1994-1999 (leading the ‘common law’ projects which included, Privity of Contract, Damages for Personal Injury and Death, Joint and Several Liability, Limitation of Actions and Illegal Transactions): his work led, for example, to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Andrew was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2003 and is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.
