Sir Vincent Frederick Floissac (July 31, 1928 – September 25, 2010) was a
Saint Lucian jurist and politician. He was styled The Rt. Hon. Sir Vincent Floissac by virtue of his membership of the
Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Floissac was the first judge from St Lucia to sit with the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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Early life
Floissac was born on St Lucia on and was educated at
Saint Mary's College and
University College London
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and was
called to the Bar by
Gray's Inn
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Floissac was the first President of the Saint Lucian Senate in 1979 and served as the acting ]Governor-General of Saint Lucia
The governor-general of Saint Lucia is the representative of the Saint Lucian monarch, currently Charles III. The official residence of the governor-general is Government House.
The position of governor-general was established when Saint Luci ...
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
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Ne ...
, working in that capacity from November 1991 to July 1996. In this role, Floissac was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of Anguilla
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, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands
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, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis
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, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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. 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.
Following a lengthy bout with cancer, Floissac died on September 25, 2010 at the age of 82. and is buried in Castries City Cemetery.
See also
* Politics of Saint Lucia
Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy, with King Charles III as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime ministe ...
References
Obituary of Sir Vincent Floissac, The Daily Telegraph, 28 October, 2010
1928 births
2010 deaths
Alumni of University College London
Members of Gray's Inn
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
20th-century King's Counsel
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Governors-General of Saint Lucia
Presidents of the Senate of Saint Lucia
Chief justices of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
Saint Lucian judges
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Seychelles
Deaths from cancer in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Anguilla
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of the British Virgin Islands
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Grenada
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Montserrat
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Lucian judges on the courts of Dominica
Saint Lucian judges of international courts and tribunals
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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