Edmund Alexander Lanquaye Bannerman JSC (22 July 1915 – 27 June 1983) was the Chief Justice of Ghana between 1970 and 1972.

[1] He was removed from office by the National Redemption Council, the military government in power after the coup of 13 January 1972 that ended the Second Republic of Ghana.

[2] Edmund Lanquaye Bannerman was born in Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana), on 22 July 1915.

His father, Emmanuel Edmund Bannerman, was an organist and choirmaster of the Wesley Methodist Church in Accra.

[4] He was educated at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, England, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1939, after which he entered private practice in Ghana.