Mark Watson-Gandy

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Professor

Mark Watson-Gandy

of Myrton, CStJ
Born (1967-11-08) November 8, 1967 (age 54)
Buckinghamshire, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materEssex University
OccupationBarrister-at-law
Known forCorporate law
Spouse(s)Emanuella Johanna Christina née Giavara (m. 1997)
Children1 son, 1 daughter
RelativesAdmiral Alec Tyndale-Biscoe;
Gyles Brandreth.

Professor Mark Watson-Gandy CStJ (born 8 November 1967) is a British lawyer and educationalist, specialising in UK insolvency law.[1] He is the Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group,[2] a position he has held since 2019.[3]

Early life and education[]

Born in 1967 to Alastair Watson-Gandy and Barbara née Madry, 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]

Career[]

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] Since 1999, he has been a Visiting Professor of the University of Westminster, he has pioneered its LLM degree in Corporate Finance Law,[8] and is a Special Lecturer at Cass Business School.[9]

In 2000, he 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]

Since 2017 Watson-Gandy has been a member of the Dubai Bar Association.[16] He became Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group in 2019.[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]

Appointments[]

Watson-Gandy's appointments to boards of companies as well as not-for-profit organizations include:

Publications[]

Books[]

Editorships[]

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]

Writing and speaking[]

Since 1997 Watson-Gandy has contributed a monthly column to Business Money, the commercial finance magazine.[26] He also writes and speaks regularly in the media on legal matters and business education.

Personal life[]

On 30 April 1997, Watson-Gandy married Emanuella Giavara, advocate on EU copyright legislation[27] and daughter of Dott. Dionisi Giuseppe Giavara.[28]

Watson-Gandy and his wife live at Blackheath, London and have two children.

Honours and arms[]

Neck Badge - Knight of Grace.jpg
Coat of arms of Professor Mark Watson-Gandy of Myrton
Adopted
Grant (Heralds' College, England) and matriculated, Scotland Lyon Court (2005)[29][30]
Crest
Upon the battlements of a tower proper a lamb passant or holding in its dexter foreleg a staff also proper flying therefrom a pennon argent charged with a cross gules.
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale sable and or five mascles in cross counterchanged (for BRANDRETH); 2nd, per pale argent and or on a chevron azure between in chief a crescent of the last between two martlets sable and in base a crescent of the third a martlet between two crescents of the second (for WATSON); 3rd, per fess nebuly gules and argent in chief two pairs of swords in saltire proper pommel and hilts or and in base a saltire couped of the first (for GANDY).

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Mark WATSON-GANDY OF MYRTON". Debretts. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group announces new chair". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  3. ^ a b "Professor becomes chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group | Planet Biometrics News". www.planetbiometrics.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition 2003, Volume 2, page 2848
  5. ^ "Court of Lord Lyon - mygov.scot". www.mygov.scot.
  6. ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  7. ^ "Mark Watson-Gandy | Barristers". Three Stone.
  8. ^ "Prof Mark Watson-Gandy - University of Westminster - Academia.edu". westminster.academia.edu.
  9. ^ "Cass Professor nominated for 2009". www.cass.city.ac.uk.
  10. ^ "Attorney General's Civil Panel Counsel: appointments, membership lists and off panel counsel". GOV.UK.
  11. ^ "In the City: Edward Fennell". The Times.
  12. ^ "Gurkha Pensions - The Tri-Partite Agreement". www.army.mod.uk.
  13. ^ "Ex-Rangers owner Craig Whyte begins appeal against Ticketus ruling". HeraldScotland.
  14. ^ "Developer McFeely bankruptcy overturned following challenge".
  15. ^ "Getting to Know You: Professor Mark Watson-Gandy, founder, KidsMBA". Business Matters. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Mark Watson-Gandy - Barristers - Three Stone".
  17. ^ "Fortuna 50: The UK's fastest growing women-led small businesses - The Centre for Entrepreneurs".
  18. ^ Singh, Rani. "'We Need An MBA For Kids,' Says Advocate". Forbes.
  19. ^ "Leading UK Direct Cremation Specialist | Pure Cremation™". Pure Cremation.
  20. ^ "Professional Conduct". www.bookkeepers.org.uk.
  21. ^ "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
  22. ^ "In the City: Addleshaw Goddard bucks a trend | The Times". Archived from the original on 2015-05-17.
  23. ^ Fennell, Edward. "In the City: happy days are here again — or is that just for the legal profession?". The Times.
  24. ^ a b "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: '9781858116006'". www.wildy.com.
  25. ^ "Beyond the peradventure | Books | Encyclopedia of law".
  26. ^ "City barrister Professor Mark Watson-Gandy explains about early neutral evaluation". www.business-money.com.
  27. ^ "History - European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA)". www.eblida.org.
  28. ^ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  29. ^ "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk.
  30. ^ "Armorial familis: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". ebooksread.
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