No.6 Barristers - specialist legal services in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK

Andrew Hatton (Sabbatical)

Andrew is a member of the Criminal, Mental Health & Court of Protection, and Regulatory Crime teams.

Andrew Hatton has been appointed as an International Criminal Judge in Kosovo to monitor, mentor and advise local Judges as well as to try some of the more serious cases such as war crimes, organised crime and serious financial crime.

The UK Government has seconded him to the European Union to work as an International Criminal Judge in the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo ("EULEX").

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Areas of Practice:

Criminal Law

Licensing

Courts Martial

Adminstrative Law (Judicial Review)

Background:

Bolton School

Leeds Metropolitan University (1983-1986) LLB (Hons) Degree in Law

Pupil of HHJ Goldsack QC and HHJ Murphy QC, Paradise Chambers, Sheffield

Tenant at Paradise Chambers, Sheffield, September 1988 to November 2000

Areas of Speciality:

All areas of criminal work, particularly sexual offencs and homicide and cases with complex mental health issues

Administrative Law, particularly in relation to Magistrates' Courts proceedings

Professional memberships and Significant Appointments:

Called to the Bar July 1987, Gray's Inn

Recorder (Midland Circuit) since 2009

Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Court) since 2004

Member of the Criminal Law Bar Association and Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association

Member of North Eastern Circuit (and former member of its Executive and Remuneration Committees)

Former member of the South Yorkshire Area Criminal Justice Consultative Committee

International Criminal Judge

Notable cases:

* R v Cawthorn - Child Murder

* R v Peatfield - Murder

* Operation Halogen - Prostitution

* R v Walsley - False lottery win, Fraud

* R v Dyson - Hull Crown Court. "Valentines Day Murder" - 40 day search for body of deceased

He regularly appears in homicide cases without a leader or leading others juniors