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Andrew McGee


Litigation Funding & Costs


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


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.

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