Andrew McGee

Practice:

Insurance, Banking and Financial Services
Commercial Agency
Limitation
Costs
Company Law
Professional Negligence
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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, professional negligence, costs and limitation.

Insurance, Banking and Financial Services

Andrew has an extensive practice in these areas, dealing with insurance policy disputes, banking matters and pensions. He also has substantial experience of issues arising under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. His textbook on insurance The Modern Law of Insurance , will go into its 3^rd edition next year. He is also a member of the Kings Chambers Consumer Credit Team and appeared in two widely-publicised cases, MBNA v Thorius , one of the first cases to consider the notion of an ‘unfair relationship’ under the amended provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 2006 and Claims Group Direct v Welcome , which considered whether claims for PPI misselling which had been assigned to the Claimant should be struck out as champertous.

Commercial Agency

Andrew has wide-ranging experience of this very specialist area, acting mostly for agents. He has been involved in a number of trials and mediations covering issues such as legitimate grounds for termination of a commercial agency and the calculation of quantum of compensation under the Lonsdale principle.

Limitation

Andrew is the author of including the acknowledged leading textbook on limitation of actions (Limitation Periods, 5^th edition 2006 -6th edition forthcoming in 2010, which is frequently cited by courts up to and including the House of Lords). He regularly advises on complex and difficult limitation issues in all types of civil proceedings.

Costs

Andrew is a member of the highly-rated 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. More recently his work has covered such matters as costs in pre-action disclosure applications and solicitor and own client costs.

Company Law

Andrew practises both in mainstream partnership and company law and in insolvency law (including personal bankruptcy). He has a particular interest in issues of capital maintenance and share capital, and is the author of Shares and Share Capital (Jordans 2009)

Professional Negligence

Andrew deals with all types of non-clinical professional negligence, though his particular specialisms are insurance brokers and solicitors. He is also frequently asked to advise on limitation issues in professional negligence cases. He is casenotes editor of the Journal of Professional Negligence.

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, some of which are mentioned above

Profile

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.

Weetwood Services Ltd v Ansvar Holdings Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 736

Cerascope Ltd v Todagres SA [2008] EWHC 1502

Claims Group Direct Ltd v Welcome Financial Services Ltd 14 October 2009 Judge Holman

Memberships:

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

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:

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.