Andrew Manning Cox
Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and became a Partner at leading international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP (formerly Wragge & Co) in 1985. He retired in 2018. During his career Andrew headed both the Employment Group and the Construction and Engineering Law Group and then became Senior Litigation Partner. These roles brought active involvement in all forms of commercial dispute resolution and arbitration, domestic and international.
He is a Notary Public, a Solicitor Advocate with full Higher Court Rights, a Mediator, and a Chartered Arbitrator, FCIArb.
He is now in practice as an Arbitrator and Mediator.
Andrew acts for parties in international arbitrations under the auspices of all the principal arbitral institutions including the ICC, LCIA, AAA, CIETAC, CEDR and the Stockholm Chamber.
He is regularly appointed by parties and arbitral institutions to sit as an Arbitrator in commercial disputes.
He has a first class degree in law from Cambridge University, is a Scholar of the University of Cambridge, and holds an MA from the same University.
What does a Notary Public do?
A Notary has an internationally recognised qualification and authenticates ("notarises") legal and other documents and information for use abroad and, where necessary in the relevant foreign jurisdictions, arranges the "legalisation" of such documents – e.g. the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office putting a seal ("Apostille") on documents under the Hague Convention, confirming that the Notary is an English qualified Notary.
This enables English companies and individuals to do business abroad cost effectively, safely and efficiently.
"Generally speaking, a notary public in England may be described as an officer of the law appointed by the Court of Faculties whose public office and duty it is to draw, attest or certify under his official seal, for use anywhere in the world, deeds and other documents, including wills or other testamentary documents, conveyances of real and personal property and powers of attorney; to authenticate such documents under his signature and official seal in such a manner as to render them acceptable, as proof of the matters attested by him, to the judicial or other public authorities in the country where they are to be used, whether by means of issuing a notarial certificate as to the due execution of such documents or by drawing them in the form of public instruments; to keep a protocol containing originals of all instruments which he makes in the public form and to issue authentic copies of such instruments; to administer oaths and declarations for use in proceedings in England and elsewhere; to note or certify transactions relating to negotiable instruments, and to draw up protests or other formal papers relating to occurrences on the voyages of ships and their navigation as well as the carriage of cargo ships.
The functions of a notary are numerous and entail greater responsibility and skill than any short description could seek to convey."
Source: Brookes Notary, Eleventh Edition – pp20 and 21 – N.P. Ready