Edmund Alexander Lanquaye Bannerman

Edmund Alexander Lanquaye Bannerman JSC (22 July 1915 – 27 June 1983) was the Chief Justice of Ghana between 1970 and 1972. He was the fourth person to hold this position since Ghana became an independent nation in 1957.^[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 Alexander Lanquaye Bannerman JSC
4th Chief Justice of Ghana
In office 1970–1972
Nominated by	Kofi Abrefa Busia
Preceded by	Edward Akufo-Addo
Succeeded by	Samuel Azu Crabbe
Personal details
Born	(1915-07-22)22 July 1915
Died	27 June 1983(1983-06-27) (aged 67) Accra, Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian

Biography

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.^[3] Bannerman attended Mfantsipim School where he was Senior Prefect in 1933.^[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.

His later legal career encompassed being a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law (1960–64), a visiting lecturer at the University of Ghana (1961–63), a High Court judge in Tanzania (1964–67), legal adviser to Ghana Police and Ghana Airways (1967–70). He became a judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana in 1970, and was appointed Chief Justice of Ghana in 1971, after being acting Chief Justice (1970–71).^[5]

Bannerman died in Accra on 27 June 1983, at the age of 67.^[6]

See also

• List of judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana
• Supreme Court of Ghana

References

1. "List of Chief Justices". Judicial Service of Ghana. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2007.
2. "13TH JANUARY, 1972–3RD JUNE, 1979: NATIONAL REDEMPTION COUNCIL (NRC)/SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL (SMC) I & II" (PDF). THE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMISSION REPORT Volume 4 Chapter 2. Ghana government. October 2004. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2005. Three judges, Chief Justice Edmund Lanquaye Bannerman, Justices Koi Larbi and J. B. Siriboe were dismissed and deprived of all their terminal employment benefits
3. Addo-Twum, J. K., ed. (12 September 1978). "Obituary". Daily Graphic. No. 8676. Graphic Corporation, Ghana. Google Books.
4. Albert Adu Boahen (1996). Mfantsipim and the Making of Ghana A Centenary History, 1876-1976. Sankofa Educational Publishers. p. 499.
5. Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal Ltd for Africa Books, 1981, p. 197.
6. Edmund Alexander Languaye Bannerman in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995.Ancestry United Kingdom.

Legal offices
Preceded by Edward Akufo-Addo	Chief Justice of Ghana 1970–1972	Succeeded by Samuel Azu Crabbe