Andrew Walker has won the 2009 Sydney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award.

Andrew undertook a complex pro bono case, successfully representing a couple who had been the victims of a ‘sale and rent back’ scheme. The couple and their children faced eviction when the purchaser defaulted on the mortgage. Andrew persuaded the court to set aside the entire transaction, the first known instance of a person successfully challenging an action by either the landlord or mortgagee following a sale and rent back scheme. In addition, the case attracted a £20,000 pro bono costs order in favour of the Access to Justice Foundation.

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