Andrew McGee

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Year of Call: 1998

Andrew practises as a member of the Chancery and Commercial Group in Chambers. His specialist areas are  financial services (insurance, banking and pensions as well as consumer credit) company law and insolvency, commercial agency, professional negligence and limitation.

Before coming to the Bar Andrew was an academic lawyer. He 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, 6^th edition now in preparation) which is regularly cited by courts up to and including the House of Lords)  The Modern Law of Insurance (3^rd edition now in preparation) as well as a textbook on Life Assurance Contracts. He is case notes editor of the Journal of Professional Negligence

Specialisms: 

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

Important 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 736

Cerascope Ltd v Todagres S.A [2008] EWHC 1502

MBNA Europe Ltd v Thorius 2009 Lawtel AC 0122592

Claims Group Direct Ltd v Lloyds TSB Ltd and others 2009 Lawtel AC 0122592

Secretary of State v Sky Land Consultants  Ltd [2010] EWHC 399 (Ch) 

Significant other work:

Legal Consultant to Insurance Ombudsman 1990-94

Member, Council of Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Bureau 1994-2000.

Academic lawyer since 1984. Presently Professor of Business Law, Manchester University.

Casenotes editor, Journal of Professional Negligence

Key Publications / Articles:

Books

Insurance Contract Law 1988 Kluwers 2 vols pp1250 (jointly with R.M. Merkin)

Limitation Periods 1990 Sweet & Maxwell  pp420; Second edition 1994, pp460; Third edition 1998, pp460, Fourth Edition 2002 pp496, 1^st Supplement 2004; Fifth Edition 2006 pp582

The Law and Practice of Life Assurance Contracts 1995 Sweet & Maxwell

The Business of Company Law 1995 Oxford University Press (with C.J. Williams)

Partnerships (vol 30 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Fifth edition 1996 reissue) Jointly with Professor Terry Prime and Mr Gary Scanlan, Butterworths 1996

Insurance (vol 20 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Fifth edition 1998 reissue)

European Insurance Law  1998 Ashgate Press pp141  (part of the European Business Law Library)

Share Capital  1999 Butterworths pp140

Pensions (vol 31 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Fifth edition 1999 reissue) 

Company Formation (vol 9 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Fifth edition) 2000

Company Management (vol 10 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Fifth edition)  2001

The Modern Law of Insurance   2001  Butterworths; Second Edition pp671 2006

Life Assurance Contracts 2006 Cavendish pp274

Shares and Share Capital under the Companies Act 2006  2009 Jordans pp 215

	Career & Education:
University:	Oxford (Magdalen College)
Degree:	Law
Year of Call:	1998 (Lincoln's Inn)
Other Details:	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.
Panels:	Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) Legal Consultant to Insurance Ombudsman 1990-94 Member, Council of Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Bureau 1994-2000.