Bernard Eder

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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.

Eder was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Downing College at the University of Cambridge (BA, 1974).[1]

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 (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.

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 currently Senior Editor of Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading.

References

  1. ^ ‘EDER, Hon. Sir (Henry) Bernard’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014