Andrew Smith KC of Compass Chambers has over 35 years of experience of litigation in courts at all levels. He has practised at the Scottish Bar (call 1988, silk 2002) and since 2006 at the English Bar as a member of Exchange Chambers, and Crown Office Chambers in London. He took silk in England in 2016 after establishing a busy and successful practice in England as well as Scotland. Andrew has extensive trial and appellate experience in all courts having appeared in an estimated 400 trials and proofs; and well over a hundred appeals. He has a wealth of court experience, including ten appearances in the Supreme Court as leader, and several in the House of Lords and Privy Council previously. He has represented several clients in successful applications to the European Court of Human Rights. He has appeared at all levels of court in both Scotland and England. His practice is wide, but he has particular expertise and interest in commercial litigation, insurance, professional negligence and product liability (including metal to metal hips, PIP implants, Vioxx and Celebrex litigation, diesel emissions claims, claims regarding the Kenyan Tea Plantation employees). He has extensive experience in medical negligence claims and commercial claims in Scotland, and similar claims in England. He represented the pursuer in a recent claim for professional negligence in which the sum sued for was in excess of $200m US.