Edward Bannister

Edward Alexander Bannister CMG KC (born 12 August 1942) is the former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court based in the British Virgin Islands.

[2] He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and Keble College, Oxford.

[3] As counsel he appeared before the House of Lords in Stein v Blake [1995] UKHL 11.

During his appointment Justice Bannister has handed down a number of decisions which have helped to reshape British Virgin Islands commercial law, including creating the jurisdiction for "Black Swan" orders[4] and reformulating the basis for minority prejudice relief.

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