Andrew Leggatt

He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He wrote Tribunals for Users - One System, One Service, published by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.[3] He liked the English language and literature and was a member of the Queen's English Society.[2]

He had two children, George and Alice. His son, George, is also a judge and was appointed to the UK Supreme Court before his father's death.[2]

• Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority [1991] 2 All ER 293, dissenting
• Vaughan v Barlow Clowes International Ltd [1991] EWCA Civ 11 - an English trusts law case, concerning tracing
• Nestle v National Westminster Bank plc [1992] EWCA Civ 12, duty of care for investment
• Fitzpatrick v British Railways Board [1992] ICR 221, [1992] IRLR 376 - UK labour law, concerning collective bargaining
• Johnstone v Bloomsbury HA [1992] QB 333, [1991] 2 WLR 1362, [1991] 2 All ER 293 - English contract law case, concerning implied terms and unfair terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
• Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Maxwell (No 2) [1993] BCLC 814, pension fund misappropriation
• Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Homan [1994] EWCA Civ 33 - English trusts law, whether a beneficiary whose fiduciary breaches trust, may trace assets through an overdrawn account to its destination.
• Powdrill v Watson [1995] 2 AC 394
• Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] UKHL 12, overturned - English trusts law case concerning the circumstances under which a resulting trust arises.
• Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28, overturned - English contract law, which laid down that a contextual approach must be taken to the interpretation of contracts.
• Fujitsu's Application [1997] EWCA Civ 1174 - confirming the rejection of a patent involving the computerisation of an existing process.