Mark Watson-Gandy | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 8, 1967
Buckinghamshire, England |
| Alma mater | Essex University ( LLB) |
| Occupation | Barrister-at-law |
| Known for | Corporate law |
| Spouse | Emanuella Johanna Christina née Giavarra ( m. 1997) |
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
| Relatives |
Admiral Alec Tyndale-Biscoe; Gyles Brandreth; Anthony Watson-Gandy |
| Awards |
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Mark Watson-Gandy OBE (born 8 November 1967), is a British lawyer and educationalist, specialising in UK insolvency law. [1] He serves as Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group, [2] a position he has held since 2019. [3]
Born in 1967 to Alastair Watson-Gandy and Barbara née Mądry, scion of the Watson-Gandy-Brandreth gentry family, [4] he was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School before going up to the University of Essex, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws ( LLB).
In Scotland, Watson-Gandy is accorded the courtesy territorial designation "of Myrton" as a feudal baron. [5] [6]
Watson-Gandy was called to the Bar in 1990 at the Inner Temple and in 2013 to the Eastern Caribbean Bar ( British Virgin Islands). He is a member of Three Stone Chambers. [7] A Visiting Professor of the University of Westminster since 1999, he has pioneered its LLM degree in Corporate Finance Law, [8] and is a Special Lecturer at Cass Business School. [9]
In 2000, Wason-Gandy was appointed by Lord Williams of Mostyn as a Junior Counsel to the Crown where he served until 2012. [10] In 2010, he was Counsel to the Conference of Bishops for the State Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom. [11] He then advised Gurkha veterans for the All-Party Parliamentary Group Enquiry on Gurkha Welfare. [12]
In 2013, Watson-Gandy represented Craig Whyte in litigation over the financing of his ill-fated acquisition of Rangers Football Club. [13] He also served as counsel to the court-appointed trustee in litigation leading to the overturning of the UK bankruptcy of Tom McFeely, a property developer and former IRA hunger striker. [14] He was counsel for the court-appointed amicus curiae in litigation over the collapse of the Stanford International Bank in Antigua and of Fairfield Sentry ( Bernie Madoff's investment fund) in the British Virgin Islands. He later successfully represented the court-appointed administrators of Cambridge Analytica. [15]
A member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council, [16] beginning in 2019, Watson-Gandy serves as Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group; [2] formerly known as the National DNA Database Ethics Group, it is a Home Office non-departmental public body. [3] He is also the former Chairman of Mental Health First Aid ( MHFA) England [17] and the Pure Cremation Group. [15]
In 2022, the Catholic Herald featured Watson-Gandy in its list of “Catholic Leaders of Today”, the UK’s 100 most influential lay Roman Catholics. [18]
Appointed a CStJ in 2020, [19] Watson-Gandy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for public and voluntary service. [20]
Watson-Gandy's appointments to boards of companies as well as not-for-profit organisations include:
- Chairman of Kids MBA Ltd; [21]
- Non-Executive Director of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers; [22]
- Chancellor of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. [23]
- Liveryman (now Immediate Past Master) of the Scriveners' Company. [24]
- Simple Contract Law - published in London 2020
- KidsMBA: How to build a successful business - published in London 2018
- Personal Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents 2nd Edition - published by Wildy & Sons, London, 2018
- Corporate Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents 2nd Edition - published by Wildy & Sons, London 2017
- Tolley's Company Secretary's Review – Corporate Precedents: Directors - published by Wildy & Sons, London 2013
- Personal Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents – published by Wildy & Sons, London 2012 [25]
- Corporate Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents – published by Wildy & Sons, London 2010 [26]
- Watson-Gandy on Accountants – Law, Practice and Procedure, 2nd Edition, published by Wildy & Sons, London 2008 [27]
- Watson-Gandy on Accountants – Law, Practice and Procedure, 1st Edition, published by Wildy & Sons, London 2000 [27]
- Beyond the Peradventure, published in London 1991. [28]
Watson-Gandy has co-edited Butterworths Corporate Law Service, LexisNexis (Company Law: co-editor since 2008), having previously been assistant editor of the Family Court Reporter, local government editor of Justice of the Peace Magazine and editor of Litigation, the legal journal. [1]
Since 1997 Watson-Gandy has contributed a monthly column to Business Money, the commercial finance magazine. [29] He also writes and speaks regularly in the media on legal matters and business education.
On 30 April 1997, Watson-Gandy married Emanuella Giavara, advocate on EU copyright legislation. [30]
Watson-Gandy and his wife live at Blackheath, London, and have two children.
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OBE: Officer of the
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire -
CStJ: Commander of the
Most Venerable Order of Saint John
[31] -
SMOM: Knight of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
[32] -
Holy See: Knight of the
Order of Saint Gregory the Great
[33] -
Two Sicilies: Knight of the
Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
[34] -
SMOM: Cross
pro Merito Melitensi;
[35] -
House of Solomon: Officer
Order of Menelik II
- Freeman of the City of London [36]
- Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company [37]
- Master Scrivener for 2022/23. [38]
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- ^ a b "Mark WATSON-GANDY OF MYRTON". Debretts. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group announces new chair". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Professor becomes chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group | Planet Biometrics News". www.planetbiometrics.com. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition 2003, Volume 2, page 2848
- ^ "Court of Lord Lyon - mygov.scot". www.mygov.scot.
- ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Mark Watson-Gandy | Barristers". Three Stone.
- ^ "Prof Mark Watson-Gandy - University of Westminster - Academia.edu". westminster.academia.edu.
- ^ "Cass Professor nominated for 2009". www.cass.city.ac.uk.[ permanent dead link]
- ^ "Attorney General's Civil Panel Counsel: appointments, membership lists and off panel counsel". GOV.UK. 27 September 2023.
- ^ "In the City: Edward Fennell". The Times. 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Gurkha Pensions - The Tri-Partite Agreement". www.army.mod.uk.
- ^ "Ex-Rangers owner Craig Whyte begins appeal against Ticketus ruling". HeraldScotland. 28 November 2013.
- ^ "Developer McFeely bankruptcy overturned following challenge". The Irish Times.
- ^ a b "Getting to Know You: Professor Mark Watson-Gandy, founder, KidsMBA". Business Matters. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Professor Mark Watson-Gandy announced as new Chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group". University of Westminster.
- ^ "Fortuna 50: The UK's fastest growing women-led small businesses - The Centre for Entrepreneurs".
- ^ "UK Catholic Leaders of Today 2022". Catholic Herald. 2 November 2022.
- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
- ^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N13.
- ^ Singh, Rani. "'We Need An MBA For Kids,' Says Advocate". Forbes.
- ^ "Professional Conduct". www.bookkeepers.org.uk.
- ^ "Simple Contract Law Stripping English Law of Complexity". Hampshire Legal.
- ^ "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
- ^ "In the City: Addleshaw Goddard bucks a trend | The Times". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015.
- ^ Fennell, Edward (28 September 2023). "In the City: happy days are here again — or is that just for the legal profession?". The Times.
- ^ a b "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: '9781858116006'". www.wildy.com.
- ^ "Beyond the peradventure | Books | Encyclopedia of law".
- ^ "City barrister Professor Mark Watson-Gandy explains about early neutral evaluation". www.business-money.com.
- ^ "History - European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA)". www.eblida.org.
- ^ "Order of St John". The Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ^ www.orderofmalta.org.uk
- ^ www.papalorders.org.uk
- ^ www.constantinian.org.uk
- ^ www.orderofmalta.int
- ^ www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
- ^ www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk
- ^ "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
- ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk.
- ^ "Armorial familis: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". ebooksread.
- ^ www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
- Living people
- 1967 births
- English people of Scottish descent
- English Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- Alumni of the University of Essex
- People educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School
- Members of the Inner Temple
- English barristers
- Academics of the University of Westminster
- British television executives
- British non-fiction writers
- English male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Scottish landowners
- Knights of Malta
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Commanders of the Order of St John
Mark Watson-Gandy | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 8, 1967
Buckinghamshire, England |
| Alma mater | Essex University ( LLB) |
| Occupation | Barrister-at-law |
| Known for | Corporate law |
| Spouse | Emanuella Johanna Christina née Giavarra ( m. 1997) |
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
| Relatives |
Admiral Alec Tyndale-Biscoe; Gyles Brandreth; Anthony Watson-Gandy |
| Awards |
OBE
CStJ |
Mark Watson-Gandy OBE (born 8 November 1967), is a British lawyer and educationalist, specialising in UK insolvency law. [1] He serves as Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group, [2] a position he has held since 2019. [3]
Born in 1967 to Alastair Watson-Gandy and Barbara née Mądry, scion of the Watson-Gandy-Brandreth gentry family, [4] he was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School before going up to the University of Essex, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws ( LLB).
In Scotland, Watson-Gandy is accorded the courtesy territorial designation "of Myrton" as a feudal baron. [5] [6]
Watson-Gandy was called to the Bar in 1990 at the Inner Temple and in 2013 to the Eastern Caribbean Bar ( British Virgin Islands). He is a member of Three Stone Chambers. [7] A Visiting Professor of the University of Westminster since 1999, he has pioneered its LLM degree in Corporate Finance Law, [8] and is a Special Lecturer at Cass Business School. [9]
In 2000, Wason-Gandy was appointed by Lord Williams of Mostyn as a Junior Counsel to the Crown where he served until 2012. [10] In 2010, he was Counsel to the Conference of Bishops for the State Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom. [11] He then advised Gurkha veterans for the All-Party Parliamentary Group Enquiry on Gurkha Welfare. [12]
In 2013, Watson-Gandy represented Craig Whyte in litigation over the financing of his ill-fated acquisition of Rangers Football Club. [13] He also served as counsel to the court-appointed trustee in litigation leading to the overturning of the UK bankruptcy of Tom McFeely, a property developer and former IRA hunger striker. [14] He was counsel for the court-appointed amicus curiae in litigation over the collapse of the Stanford International Bank in Antigua and of Fairfield Sentry ( Bernie Madoff's investment fund) in the British Virgin Islands. He later successfully represented the court-appointed administrators of Cambridge Analytica. [15]
A member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council, [16] beginning in 2019, Watson-Gandy serves as Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group; [2] formerly known as the National DNA Database Ethics Group, it is a Home Office non-departmental public body. [3] He is also the former Chairman of Mental Health First Aid ( MHFA) England [17] and the Pure Cremation Group. [15]
In 2022, the Catholic Herald featured Watson-Gandy in its list of “Catholic Leaders of Today”, the UK’s 100 most influential lay Roman Catholics. [18]
Appointed a CStJ in 2020, [19] Watson-Gandy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for public and voluntary service. [20]
Watson-Gandy's appointments to boards of companies as well as not-for-profit organisations include:
- Chairman of Kids MBA Ltd; [21]
- Non-Executive Director of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers; [22]
- Chancellor of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. [23]
- Liveryman (now Immediate Past Master) of the Scriveners' Company. [24]
- Simple Contract Law - published in London 2020
- KidsMBA: How to build a successful business - published in London 2018
- Personal Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents 2nd Edition - published by Wildy & Sons, London, 2018
- Corporate Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents 2nd Edition - published by Wildy & Sons, London 2017
- Tolley's Company Secretary's Review – Corporate Precedents: Directors - published by Wildy & Sons, London 2013
- Personal Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents – published by Wildy & Sons, London 2012 [25]
- Corporate Insolvency Practice: Litigation Procedure & Precedents – published by Wildy & Sons, London 2010 [26]
- Watson-Gandy on Accountants – Law, Practice and Procedure, 2nd Edition, published by Wildy & Sons, London 2008 [27]
- Watson-Gandy on Accountants – Law, Practice and Procedure, 1st Edition, published by Wildy & Sons, London 2000 [27]
- Beyond the Peradventure, published in London 1991. [28]
Watson-Gandy has co-edited Butterworths Corporate Law Service, LexisNexis (Company Law: co-editor since 2008), having previously been assistant editor of the Family Court Reporter, local government editor of Justice of the Peace Magazine and editor of Litigation, the legal journal. [1]
Since 1997 Watson-Gandy has contributed a monthly column to Business Money, the commercial finance magazine. [29] He also writes and speaks regularly in the media on legal matters and business education.
On 30 April 1997, Watson-Gandy married Emanuella Giavara, advocate on EU copyright legislation. [30]
Watson-Gandy and his wife live at Blackheath, London, and have two children.
-
OBE: Officer of the
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
-
CStJ: Commander of the
Most Venerable Order of Saint John
[31]
-
SMOM: Knight of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
[32]
-
Holy See: Knight of the
Order of Saint Gregory the Great
[33]
-
Two Sicilies: Knight of the
Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
[34]
-
SMOM: Cross
pro Merito Melitensi;
[35]
-
House of Solomon: Officer
Order of Menelik II
- Freeman of the City of London [36]
- Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company [37]
- Master Scrivener for 2022/23. [38]
|
- ^ a b "Mark WATSON-GANDY OF MYRTON". Debretts. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group announces new chair". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Professor becomes chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group | Planet Biometrics News". www.planetbiometrics.com. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition 2003, Volume 2, page 2848
- ^ "Court of Lord Lyon - mygov.scot". www.mygov.scot.
- ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Mark Watson-Gandy | Barristers". Three Stone.
- ^ "Prof Mark Watson-Gandy - University of Westminster - Academia.edu". westminster.academia.edu.
- ^ "Cass Professor nominated for 2009". www.cass.city.ac.uk.[ permanent dead link]
- ^ "Attorney General's Civil Panel Counsel: appointments, membership lists and off panel counsel". GOV.UK. 27 September 2023.
- ^ "In the City: Edward Fennell". The Times. 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Gurkha Pensions - The Tri-Partite Agreement". www.army.mod.uk.
- ^ "Ex-Rangers owner Craig Whyte begins appeal against Ticketus ruling". HeraldScotland. 28 November 2013.
- ^ "Developer McFeely bankruptcy overturned following challenge". The Irish Times.
- ^ a b "Getting to Know You: Professor Mark Watson-Gandy, founder, KidsMBA". Business Matters. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Professor Mark Watson-Gandy announced as new Chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group". University of Westminster.
- ^ "Fortuna 50: The UK's fastest growing women-led small businesses - The Centre for Entrepreneurs".
- ^ "UK Catholic Leaders of Today 2022". Catholic Herald. 2 November 2022.
- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
- ^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N13.
- ^ Singh, Rani. "'We Need An MBA For Kids,' Says Advocate". Forbes.
- ^ "Professional Conduct". www.bookkeepers.org.uk.
- ^ "Simple Contract Law Stripping English Law of Complexity". Hampshire Legal.
- ^ "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
- ^ "In the City: Addleshaw Goddard bucks a trend | The Times". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015.
- ^ Fennell, Edward (28 September 2023). "In the City: happy days are here again — or is that just for the legal profession?". The Times.
- ^ a b "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: '9781858116006'". www.wildy.com.
- ^ "Beyond the peradventure | Books | Encyclopedia of law".
- ^ "City barrister Professor Mark Watson-Gandy explains about early neutral evaluation". www.business-money.com.
- ^ "History - European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA)". www.eblida.org.
- ^ "Order of St John". The Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ^ www.orderofmalta.org.uk
- ^ www.papalorders.org.uk
- ^ www.constantinian.org.uk
- ^ www.orderofmalta.int
- ^ www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
- ^ www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk
- ^ "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
- ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk.
- ^ "Armorial familis: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". ebooksread.
- ^ www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
- Living people
- 1967 births
- English people of Scottish descent
- English Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- Alumni of the University of Essex
- People educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School
- Members of the Inner Temple
- English barristers
- Academics of the University of Westminster
- British television executives
- British non-fiction writers
- English male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Scottish landowners
- Knights of Malta
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Commanders of the Order of St John