Andrew Mckie
Membership Status: Barrister - Full Member
General Information
Andrew is a former solicitor who was called to the bar in 2011. He has over 10 years of experience as a barrister, helping both professional and direct clients in areas such as landlord and tenant cases, housing professional negligence, building disputes, contract law, personal injury, clinical negligence, insurance disputes, costs and negligence cases.
Routinely acting for both claimants and defendants, Andrew has appeared at county court and High Court levels. His court work ranges from interim application hearings and one day trials to five day multi-track trials, complex and high-value High Court proceedings, and appeals. Andrew also helps clients with all interim applications, including costs assessments and enforcement of judgement work.
Andrew has written many published books on the areas he practices in and he also owns and runs a law firm (www.mckielegal.co.uk) where he assists clients with litigation in the same areas. Unusually for a direct access barrister, Andrew can provide a full litigation service from inception to completion of the case, including costs work. He prides himself on being friendly and approachable and providing sound, commercial and practical advice to resolve disputes whilst also representing clients in court robustly where required.
Areas of law
- Landlord & Tenant/Property Disputes
- Housing, Construction & Building Disputes
- Professional Negligence
- Contract Law/Debt Claims
- Insurance Claims
- Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence
Landlord & Tenant/Property Disputes
Representing both claimants and defendants, Andrew has experience in a wide range of landlord and tenant disputes, including:
- Disrepair claims
- Rent repayment orders
- Tenancy deposit recovery claims
- Section 21 evictions
Examples of landlord/tenant cases include:
- High Court litigation, including a warrant of stay on a mutual million-pound property case
- Illegal evictions
- Defence of disrepair claims for private landlords
- Defending a harassment claim from a landlord
- Helping a landlord with a Section 21 notice
- Defending a case for a tenant where notices of eviction had not been served properly
Andrew has also been advising clients more widely in property disputes, including building disputes, advising on prescriptive rights over land, easement disputes, advising on a large equity claim on a property dispute involving gifts/lifetime interest, advising on the scope of a license in a commercial property dispute and a number of boundary disputes on private property. Additionally, he has helped mortgagees in cases involving possession cases, stays of execution and removal of a receiver.
Housing, Construction & Building Disputes
Andrew has experience acting for claimants and defendants in areas such as:
- Building disputes
- Japanese knotweed claims
- Cavity wall cases
- Leaseholder disputes
- Disrepair cases related to freeholders and leaseholders
- Boundary disputes
Professional Negligence
In professional negligence, Andrew has acted for clients in cases involving negligent advice given by solicitors in personal injury and clinical negligence claims. He is happy to accept instructions to advise and represent clients in relation to negligence claims against other non-legal professionals.
Contract Law/Debt Claims
Andrew assists both claimants, individuals and SMEs with contractual disputes such as:
- Disputes over products
- Consumer Rights Act 2015 cases
- Cases related to the supply of goods or services
He also advises individuals on debt recovery and the defence of debt or contract claims.
Insurance Claims
Andrew has advised on cases involving indemnity from insurance companies, refusal of indemnity/cover under a policy, and disputes over policy coverage.
Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence
Assisting both claimants and insurers, Andrew has acted in a wide range of personal injury and clinical negligence claims for the past 10 years, including:
- Occupier's liability
- Defective premises
- Injuries caused to tenants
- Disease litigation
- Travel claims
- Credit hire
- Employer's liability cases
