Name Bernard Eder | Role Judge | |
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Education Downing College, Cambridge Books Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading Similar People Ian Hughes, Andrew Gilbart, James Goss, Elizabeth II | ||
Sir bernard eder issue estoppel under the new york convention 8 may 2015
Sir Henry Bernard Eder (born 16 October 1952), styled The Hon. Sir Bernard Eder, is an English lawyer and a former High Court Judge, 2011-2015.
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Eder was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Downing College at the University of Cambridge (BA, 1974).
Eder was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1975 and became a member of 4 Essex Court (thereafter renamed Essex Court Chambers) specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration.
He was appointed a QC in 1990, recorder from 2000-2001, and judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (Queen's Bench Division) in 2011 where he regularly sat in the Commercial Court and also from time to time in the Queen's Bench Division, the Administrative Court and in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division until his resignation on 1 April 2015. On 7 May 2015, Eder was appointed an International Judge at the Singapore International Commercial Court. In June 2016, he was appointed as a temporary Acting Judge in the East Caribbean Supreme Court assigned to the Commercial Division in the British Virgin Islands. He also now acts as an international arbitrator and mediator.
He was formerly Visiting Professor at University College, London (1999-2003) where he gave a series of lectures on shipping law as part of the LLM course. He is now a member of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton, and continues to give lectures on a wide range of legal topics at universities in England and around the world.
He is currently Senior Editor of Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading.