Andrew Sinclair LLM
Legal research and publications
Andrew is a former senior editor at legal publishers Sweet and Maxwell, where as early as 1998 he worked on the development of the online legal database WestLaw UK.
A member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, Andrew holds a BA in history and politics and a postgraduate diploma in law, both from the University of Central Lancashire. A semi-finalist in the Times Law Awards 2002, Andrew’s LLM dissertation the following year on legal professional privilege and the compatibility of UK tax investigation procedures with domestic and European human rights law gained a first with distinction from the University of Leeds.
From 2004 to 2007 Andrew was the editor of The Criminal Lawyer and he remains a member of the editorial board of European Law Reports, for which he regularly writes on leading tax and EC law cases from all over the UK and Ireland, including the recent House of Lords’ judgment in Boake Allen Ltd [2007] Eu LR 197, which concerned a challenge to the UK’s rules on advance corporation tax and group income elections, and the judgments of both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in the retrospective VAT capping case Fleming (t/a Bodycraft) v Customs and Excise Commissioners [2008] UKHL 2.
Outside of work Andrew has a longstanding interest in human rights work and has provided legal research assistance to campaigns as diverse as the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, which assists human rights lawyers in the former Soviet states.