Jonathan McNae

Jonathan’s busy practice spans all aspects of residential and commercial property, contractual and commercial disputes, professional negligence and tortious liabilities, as well as company law and insolvency. His client base ranges from large corporate landowners to private individuals and small businesses. He appears regularly in the High Court and County Courts, as well as the LVT. Most recently he has achieved recognition as a leading junior in the Legal 500, 2007 where the quality of his advisory work receives special mention.

Jonathan has a strong academic foundation, having been a staff member of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies before call to the Bar. A winner on behalf of Gray’s Inn of the Inter-Inn Mooting Shield 2001, he was subsequently selected to compete also for the Inn in a tour of US law schools.

Year of Call: 2001
Professional memberships: Chancery Bar Association, Property Bar Association

Recent and reported cases:

Beckenham M.C. Limited v Centralex Limited & ors LTL 10.6.2004 (Hart J)
(s. 423 Insolvency Act 1986 – transfers at an undervalue, defrauding creditors)

Okolo v Mortgages 4 Ltd & ors LTL 27.11.2003 (Neuberger J)
(strike out applications, treatment of litigants in person)

Al-Abbas v Al-Dabbagh LTL 21.11.2002 (CA)
(charging orders and solicitors' liens)

Publications:

What’s in a Name? – liability and the Phoenix Syndrome
(Solicitors Journal, 13 May 2005)

Handle With Care – squatters and adverse possession
(Estates Gazette, 22 May 2004)

Past contributing editor of the Lawyer’s Factbook
(Sweet & Maxwell, London, Looseleaf)

Wolstenholme & Cherry’s Annotated Land Registration Act 2002
Editor’s Assistant
(Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2003)

Too Much, Too Soon?
(Money Laundering Monitor, Issue 10 (April 2000), p1
CCH Publications, Bicester)

Casenote: R v Gibson (Journal of Money Laundering Control, Volume 4 Number 1 p89 Henry Stewart publications, London)

UK FSA: New Role on Money Laundering
(Financial Crime Review, Vol 1 Issue 1 (Fall 2000), p71
Institutional Investor Inc., New York)

An Ever-Growing Problem for an Ever-Shrinking World
(Financial Crime Review, Vol 1 Issue 1 (Fall 2000), p75
Institutional Investor Inc., New York)

Email: jonathan.mcnae@selbornechambers.co.uk