Lawyers

Gordon Dawes

Gordon Dawes

Mourant, Guernsey

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Gordon is a Partner of Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP in the firm's Guernsey Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice.

Gordon's practice focus points are cross-border commercial disputes, regulatory law and white-collar crime, trust disputes and related issues (for example director and company issues arising in a trust context) and areas of crossover between the regulatory and fiduciary worlds. He has a substantial company law and commercial practice more generally with considerable experience also of insurance and public law. I have a particular interest in litigation funding.

Gordon has taken cases to all levels of the Guernsey court system including cases to the Privy Council and to the Supreme Court/House of Lords and to the European Court of Human Rights.

He has written extensively about Guernsey law including writing what is still Guernsey's leading textbook, Laws of Guernsey, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003. Gordon has been a member of the editorial board of the Channel Islands' leading law review, the Jersey and Guernsey Law Review, since 2003. He is also a director of Guernsey's law institute.

Career

Gordon is an English Barrister by background, and was in London Chambers for nine years, gaining extensive court experience, before moving to Guernsey in 1998 and joining Ozannes, now Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP, where he has been a Partner since 2003.

Memberships

Editorial Board of the Jersey and Guernsey Law Review

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