Andrew McGee

Practice:

Insurance, Banking and Financial Services
Commercial Agency
Limitation
Costs
Company Law

Profile

Andrew practises as a member of the Chancery and Commercial Group in Chambers. His specialist areas are insurance and financial services company law, commercial agency, pensions and limitation. He also has a particular interest in costs, and is a member of the Kings Chambers costs team, appearing regularly in detailed assessments as well as arguing points of principle in relation to costs. He has been involved in major litigation in the SCCO, as well as appearing in the early proceedings in the groundbreaking case of Rogers v Merthyr Tydfil BC.

Before coming to the Bar Andrew was an academic lawyer and retains an academic role as Professor of Business Law (part-time) at Manchester University.. He has published a large number of articles and books in his specialist areas, including the acknowledged leading textbook on limitation of actions (Limitation Periods, 5^th edition 2006, which is regularly cited by courts up to and including the House of Lords) and a major practitioner text on insurance law, as well as a textbook on Life Assurance ContractsProfile.

Significant Reported Cases:

Regent Lesiuretime Ltd v Natwest Finance Ltd plc [2003] EWCA Civ 391

LMS International Ltd. v Styrene Packaging Ltd [2005] EWHC 2065 (TCC)

Global Projects Management Ltd v Citigroup plc [2005] EWHC 2663 (Ch)

M Young v Zahids Solicitors [2006] EWCA Civ 613 [2006] 1 WLR 2562 C.A.

Memberships:

Society of Legal Scholars
Chancery Bar Association
NCCBA
Fellow of Royal Society of Arts since 2001

Career & Education:
University: Degree: Year of Call: Other career details: Panels:	Oxford (Magdalen College) Law 1998 (Lincoln's Inn) After graduating from Oxford in 1981, Andrew did articles with Clifford Turner and qualified as a solicitor. From 1984 to date he has held various academic posts and, since 1994, he has been Professor of Business Law at the Universities of Lancaster Leeds and now Manchester. Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) Legal Consultant to Insurance Ombudsman 1990-94 Member, Council of Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Bureau 1994-2000.

Career & Education:

University:

Degree:

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Panels:

Oxford (Magdalen College)
Law

1998 (Lincoln's Inn)

After graduating from Oxford in 1981, Andrew did articles with Clifford Turner

and qualified as a solicitor. From 1984 to date he has held various academic

posts and, since 1994, he has been Professor of Business Law at the Universities

of Lancaster Leeds and now Manchester.