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British lawyer

For the British fighter pilot, see Geoffrey Hilton Bowman.

Sir Edwin Geoffrey Bowman, KCB, KC (Hon) (born 27 January 1946), commonly known as Sir Geoffrey Bowman, is a British lawyer and retired parliamentary draftsman.

Geoffrey Sawer (–), lawyer, academic, magistrate, and journalist, was born on 21 December at Maymyo, Burma (Myanmar).

It should be remembered, however, that he was an extremely modest and humble man who throughout his life never used the eponymous labels.

Sir Geoffrey was First Parliamentary Counsel from - He is an expert on legislative drafting and in constitutional and administrative.

Geoffrey, who is the immediate past President of CALC, retired as First Parliamentary Counsel of the UK Parliamentary Counsel Office on 31 July this year.

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and thereafter in the.

Early life and education

Born in 1946, Bowman attended Roundhay School before he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge,^[1] graduating in 1967 with a BA in law, and then completing a postgraduateLLB the following year.^[2]

Career and honours

Called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1968,^[3] he practised privately for three years before joining the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1971.

He was promoted to be a Parliamentary Counsel in 1984,^[1] and between 2002 and 2006 he served as First Parliamentary Counsel, the head of the OPC (permanent secretary grade). He had previously been seconded to the Law Commission for England and Wales and drafted the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the