Mark Watson-Gandy

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]

Professor

Mark Watson-Gandy

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

Early life and education

Born in 1967 to Alastair Watson-Gandy and Barbara née Madry, scion of the Watson-Gandy-Brandreth 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" a ”feudal baron”.[5][6]

In 2019, Watson-Gandy became Chairman of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group.[2] Formerly known as the National DNA Database Ethics Group, it is a Home Office non-departmental public body.[3] He is also a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council.[7]

In 2022, The Catholic Herald included Watson-Gandy in its list, “Catholic leaders of today”, of the UK’s 100 most influential lay Roman Catholics.[8]

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.[17] 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[18] and daughter of Dott. Dionisi Giuseppe Giavara.[19]

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

Honours and arms
Coat of arms of Professor Mark Watson-Gandy of Myrton
Adopted
Grant (Heralds' College, England) and matriculated, Scotland Lyon Court (2005)[20][21]
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. "Mark WATSON-GANDY OF MYRTON". Debretts. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  2. "Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group announces new chair". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  3. "Professor becomes chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group | Planet Biometrics News". www.planetbiometrics.com. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  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 18 November 2019.
  7. "Professor Mark Watson-Gandy announced as new Chair for Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group". University of Westminster.
  8. "UK Catholic Leaders of Today 2022". Catholic Herald.
  9. Singh, Rani. "'We Need An MBA For Kids,' Says Advocate". Forbes.
  10. "Professional Conduct". www.bookkeepers.org.uk.
  11. "Simple Contract Law Stripping English Law of Complexity". Hampshire Legal.
  12. "Scriveners Company in London". www.scriveners.org.uk.
  13. "In the City: Addleshaw Goddard bucks a trend | The Times". Archived from the original on 17 May 2015.
  14. Fennell, Edward. "In the City: happy days are here again — or is that just for the legal profession?". The Times.
  15. "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: '9781858116006'". www.wildy.com.
  16. "Beyond the peradventure | Books | Encyclopedia of law".
  17. "City barrister Professor Mark Watson-Gandy explains about early neutral evaluation". www.business-money.com.
  18. "History - European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA)". www.eblida.org.
  19. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  20. "Change of Name and/or Arms". www.thegazette.co.uk.
  21. "Armorial familis: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". ebooksread.
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