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Professor Meggitt, Gary

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Professor Meggitt, Gary

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Associate Professor

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Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
University of OxfordMA
ACII
Chartered Institute of ArbitratorsMCIArb
Solicitor Advocate (England & Wales)
Honourable Society of Lincolns InnBarrister at Law
CEDR ChambersAccredited Mediator
Biography

Gary was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1993 and spent 12 years as a solicitor and then a consultant, specializing in insurance litigation, with several leading UK law firms. He was also Called to the Bar in England & Wales.

He first taught on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP Law School in 2000. Gary was subsequently a Director of BPP Professional Development, with responsibility for its Professional Skills Course (PSC) in 2004-05, and was the Course Director of BPP Law School’s Full-Time Bar Vocational Course (BVC) in 2005-07.

Gary joined the Faculty in 2007 and teaches civil litigation, commercial dispute resolution and professional practice & management, for which he is a course co-ordinator, on the PCLL programme. He also teaches insurance law on the Faculty’s LLM and JD programmes.

Gary has written extensively on civil litigation and insurance-related subjects. He is a contributing author to A Guide to Civil Procedure in Hong Kong (Fifth Edition, LexisNexis, 2015) and was the general editor of Civil Justice Reform – What has it achieved? (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010).

He is a member of the editorial board of the Hong Kong Law Journal and served as Deputy Head of the PLE Department from 2009 to 2012.

Gary is a member of the Hong Kong Law Society’s Insurance Law Committee and Working Party on Litigation Funding. He is also a member of the Examining Panel under the Higher Rights of Audience Rules. He was a director of the Hong Kong Insurance Law Association in 2011.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2019-03-01Li Ka Shing Prize for Best MPhil in the Humanities: Graduate School, University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
10/07 -MemberHong Kong Society of Construction Law
08/07 -MemberCII/Insurance Institute of Hong Kong
2022MemberInternational Bar Association
08/07 -MemberCIArb (UK and East Asia branches)
2011-MemberHong Kong Insurance Law Association
2019FellowRoyal Society of Arts
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Professional liabilities
Professional legal education
Insurance law
Financial, banking and insurance law
Civil litigation and advocacy
Civil and criminal litigation and advocacy
Arbitration and dispute resolution
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English英語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English英文
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