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Email: <\/strong>afrederick@scomo.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

View Andrews’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practice Areas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Actions Against the Police (and Public Bodies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have more than 10 years experience helping members of the public with civil claims against the police, HM Prison Service, the Home Office<\/strong>, magistrates\u2019 courts, <\/strong>and other detaining authorities (including the private companies Serco, G4S, and Sodexho<\/strong>). I have expertise helping people with claims for assault, unlawful arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in public office, breach of human rights, discrimination, and data protection issues<\/strong>. I also help people make complaints against police officers, which can lead to officers facing criminal proceedings or misconduct proceedings <\/strong>which could result in being dismissed from the police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I undertake work in the Coroner\u2019s court, also known as inquests<\/strong>. I assist families to find out the truth of what happened when their loved ones have died at the hands of the state \u2013 in prison, police custody, or after police contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I help people to challenge decisions by public bodies using the judicial review<\/strong> procedure. I help victims fo crime dispute decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service<\/strong> not to prosecute offenders<\/strong>, outcomes of DBS checks<\/strong> which can affect people\u2019s prospects of employment, decisions by the Independent Office for Police Conduct<\/strong> (formerly the IPCC) not to uphold complaints against the police, decisions by the police not to destroy DNA samples<\/strong> (and DNA profiles derived from those samples), fingerprints<\/strong> and custody photographs<\/strong>, and funding decisions by the Legal Aid Agency,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am listed in the 2018 edition of the Legal 500 directory under the category of \u2018Civil Liberties and Human Rights\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compensation is obviously a big factor in the work I carry out on behalf of clients, but for most of the people, I represent, holding the state to account is what they want to do most. My clients have often been bullied and feel they have no place to turn. They want to make sure the state agents are exposed for what they have done and to ensure that others do not suffer at their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable Cases:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Inquest into the death of Osvaldas Pagirys<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I represented the family of Osvaldas Pagirys who died whilst detained at HMP Wandsworth on 11th November 2016. Osvaldas was held on remand at HMP Wandsworth between August and November 2016 after being arrested for stealing sweets. He was held in the prison as he awaited extradition to Lithuania under a European Arrest Warrant for minor theft. This was his first time in prison custody and it is clear that he found the experience extremely distressing. As a vulnerable young prisoner who spoke very little English he struggled to cope. He repeatedly self-harmed and was found with a noose around his neck on five separate occasions prior to his death. On 11th November 2016 Osvaldas\u2019s emergency cell bell began ringing at 1pm. Despite the Prison Service\u2019s target response time of 5 minutes no member of prison staff attended Osvaldas\u2019s cell until 1:37pm. When discovered, he was already unconscious. He died in St Georges\u2019 Hospital, Tooting, on 14th November 2016. On 20th February 2018, following a 10 day inquest, a jury at Westminster Coroner\u2019s Court returned a unanimous verdict identifying numerous failures in the actions of the prison staff. The jury found that communication between prison and healthcare staff in the period leading up to Osvaldas\u2019s death was inadequate, as was the decision to locate Osvaldas in the prison\u2019s segregation unit. The jury found that the delay in responding to Osvaldas\u2019s emergency cell bell was a failure which did contribute to his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story has been reported in the national media:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n