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Head of Chambers: Dia C. Forrester
Former Attorney General of Grenada, Dia C. Forrester is a highly respected practitioner at both the private and public bar as a transactional lawyer and litigator . She has over 15 years of extensive experience in corporate and project financing inclusive of debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate, joint venture and shareholder issues, claims involving financial institutions and banks, contractual disagreements, complex commercial, construction, insolvency and trusts litigation, constitutional law motions, judicial review, energy law with a focus on renewable energy inclusive of geothermal energy and, real estate development.
Between 2019 to 2022, on request, Ms. Forrester served as Grenada’s Attorney General acting as the chief legal adviser to the Government on domestic, regional and international law. Prior to that she served as Solicitor General heading the litigation team of the Government of Grenada. Additionally, Ms. Forrester was a Partner at the largest law firm in St. Kitts and Nevis as a leading litigator and transactional lawyer.
Ms. Forrester appears before the High Court and Court of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean and served briefly as a High Court Judge in the jurisdiction. She has appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice in its original jurisdiction in the First Advisory Opinion acting as advocate in response to a request for the interpretation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which treaty established the Caribbean Community in relation to the free movement of people within the community. She is open for engagements to the Privy Council and to serve as an Arbitrator.
Ms. Forrester has previously served as:
- Chairperson of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Commission, Government of Grenada
- Chairperson of the Grenada Authority for the Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Deputy Chairperson of the Procurement Board, Government of Grenada
- Member of the Internal Audit Committee, Government of Grenada
- Member of the Citizenship by Investment Appeals Board, Government of Grenada
- Council Member of the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar Association
- Council Member of the Grenada Bar Association
| Bar Admissions | ~Grenada 2008 ~St. Kitts and Nevis 2013 ~Anguilla 2013 |
| Education | ~University College London LLM International Banking and Finance Law (Merit) 2012 ~Hugh Wooding Law School LEC (Merit) 2008 ~University of the West Indies LLB (Hons) 2006 |
| Awards and Membership | ~The Justice Jessel Hannays Memorial Prize for the Best Performance in the Law of Remedies – 2007 ~Council of Legal Education Prize for Most Outstanding Student at Law School – 2008 ~Grenada National Youth Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law – 2008 ~Member of the St. Kitts And Nevis Bar Association ~Member of the Anguilla Bar Association ~Member of the Grenada Bar Association ~Grenada National Anti-Doping Organisation |