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Andrew McGee
Year of Call: 1998
Costs
Andrew 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.
He has particular interests in solicitor and own client costs and in costs in insolvency proceedings (especially remuneration applications)
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, 5th 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 Contracts
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, 1st 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 pp215
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Career & Education: |
| University: | Oxford (Magdalen College) |
| Degree: | Law |
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1998 (Lincoln's Inn) |
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Other Details:
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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. |
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Panels:
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Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) |
