David Doyle CBE of Cains, the former First Deemster, has joined the Small Countries Financial Management Centre as a director.
Mark Shimmin, executive director of the Centre said: ’David has been an active and valued supporter of the Centre and its work for many years and we are extremely pleased that he has agreed to become a director of the charity.
His experience and expertise will be invaluable’.
In each of the past five years’ programmes, David Doyle, as Deemster, presented a lecture on various aspects of the Rule of Law.
David Doyle said ’I am delighted to have been appointed a director of the SCFMC and greatly look forward to making a positive contribution to the important and valuable work of the Centre both locally and internationally.’
Mr Doyle is a senior legal adviser in the litigation department of Cains, one of the Isle of Man’s leading firms of advocates.
He assists its advocates and clients in company, commercial, trust, regulatory and general chancery litigation having had more than 30 years’ experience of such matters in the Isle of Man.
He joined Cains in November 2018.
He was previously First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls of the Isle of Man from 2010 until his retirement in July 2018. He was also the deputy governor of the Isle of Man during that period.
He was called to the English Bar in 1982 and the Manx Bar in 1984. From 1984 to 2003 he was a partner with Isle of Man firm of advocates, Dickinson Cruickshank & Co. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the governing Council of the Isle of Man Law Society and elected Vice-President in 2003.
On a lighter note, in 2013, 2014 and 2016 he was awarded the Kirk Andreas Produce Show Wood Pumpkin Silver Cup for heaviest pumpkin.
Mr Doyle was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours in recognition of his outstanding services to Manx law. The Small Countries Financial Management Centre (SCFMC) was established as a charity in the Isle of Man in June 2009. Its purpose is to contribute to the growth and prosperity of small countries through capacity building in the government financial sector. Programmes bring together senior officials from finance ministries, central banks, and regulatory bodies in small developing countries for a two-week executive education programme designed to stimulate fresh approaches to the challenges they and their countries face.
The Centre’s funding is largely through the Isle of Man Government’s International Development Partnerships funding stream.
David Doyle has been an ’active and valued’ supporter
David Doyle pictured at Government House last year when he planted a tree marking 10 years of the scheme