Vincent Floissac
President of the Senate of Saint Lucia | |
|---|---|
| In office 1979–1979 | |
| Preceded by | New position |
| Succeeded by | Calixte George |
Sir Vincent Frederick Floissac Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Floissac was the first judge from St Lucia to sit with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Biography
Floissac was born on St Lucia on and was educated at
called to the Bar by Gray's Inn.[1]
Floissac was the first
Governor-General of Saint Lucia from April 30, 1987, until October 10, 1988. He has also served as Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, working in that capacity from November 1991 to July 1996. In this role, Floissac was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He later served as a member of the Seychellois Court of Appeal from 1988 to 1991. He has also represented Saint Lucia in several regional tennis competitions.[1]
Following a lengthy bout with cancer, Floissac died on September 25, 2010, at the age of 82.[2] and is buried in Castries City Cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ a b "The Right Honourable Sir Vincent Floissac". Caribbean Court of Justice. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
- ^ "Sir Vincent Floissac passes on". St. Lucia Star. 28 September 2010. Archived from the original on 21 December 2010.
 | This article about a Saint Lucian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |