Gordon Dawes

Practice Areas

Gordon is a Partner of Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP in our Guernsey Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice.

Gordon's practice focus points are 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 commercial practice more generally with considerable experience also of insurance and public law. He has particular interests in litigation connected with Russia/CIS and 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.

Professional Memberships

Gordon has written extensively about Guernsey law including writing what is still Guernsey's leading textbook, Laws of Guernsey, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Channel Islands' leading law review, the Jersey and Guernsey Law Review, since 2003, and is a director of Guernsey's law institute.