Deputy Bailiff will take on top position in May 2020
GUERNSEY will have a new Bailiff next year when Richard McMahon takes up the role.
The Lieutenant-Governor announced this morning that the Queen, on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, has approved the appointment of Mr McMahon, who is currently the Deputy Bailiff, to succeed Sir Richard Collas, who will retire from the post in May 2020.
Mr McMahon was born in 1962 and educated at Abingdon School, Liverpool University, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the Inns of Court School of Law in London and the Universite de Caen, France.
He was called to the English Bar, Middle Temple in 1986 and to the Guernsey Bar in 1998.
Mr McMahon lectured in law at the University of Reading from 1987 to 1995, while maintaining a general common law practice at the English Bar.
He came to Guernsey in 1995 as a legislative draftsman.
In 2000, he was appointed a Crown advocate and director of civil litigation and in 2008 was made external relations policy and legal adviser.
In 2009, Mr McMahon was appointed Her Majesty’s Comptroller (solicitor general) and, as a consequence, deputy to Her Majesty’s Receiver General for Guernsey. At the same time, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel.
Mr McMahon was appointed Deputy Bailiff of Guernsey in March 2012.
Sir Richard was appointed Deputy Bailiff of Guernsey in June 2005 and Bailiff in March 2012.
He had his term of office officially extended by two years in May 2018.
