Alan HM Weir
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Work Department
Litigation – insurance/reinsurance; professional negligence; insurance (non-contentious).
Position
Partner handling all classes of insurance and reinsurance dispute, related professional and executive indemnity issues and policy/programme and wording questions. Specialist in London market issues. Special counsel in the insurance and reinsurance group. Major appellate cases include Pine Top v Pan Atlantic (House of Lords), Denby v English & Scottish; PCWSyndicates v PCWReinsurers and HOTT v Sivand. Major High Court actions include Syndicate 90 Names Action v Winchester Bowring; Mander v Commercial Union; Owner of the Solway Harvester v Syndicate 1/83, plus numerous confidential investigations, arbitrations and settlements; advised Lloyd’s brokers on Reconstruction & Renewal and London insurance market (both brokers and Lloyd’s) on LMP 2001 and on contract certainty. 2010 caseload ranged from Californian wildfires to piracy to regulatory challenges.
Career
Trained Ince & Co; qualified 1984; partner 1991. Speaker on major re/insurance issues in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Editor of the firm’s Insurance and reinsurance publications. ‘A matter of Forms and substance’ Lloyd’s Mar. & Comm. Law Qtly (2009) – cited in House of Lords; ‘Reforming Marine and Commercial Insurance Law’ (co-author) Informa (2008); ‘Marine Insurance Act 1906 – case for the defence’ Journal of Insurance Research and Practice (2006); ‘Avoiding Avoidance’ Zeitschrift fur Versicherungswegen (co-author) (2005); ‘If Time be Short’ (author) Western Isles Press (2001); ‘Recovering the unforeseeable’ International Journal of Shipping Law (1998); ‘Utmost Good Faith in Claims – Another Minefield’ – monograph (1991).
Member
ARIAS; BMLA.
Education
Fettes College, Edinburgh; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Trinity College, Cambridge (1981 BA Law).
Leisure
Military history and writing, fishing, sailing. Member: Blackheath Rugby Club.
Practice Areas
Insurance (non-contentious); Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Professional negligence
