Dia Forrester

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Dia C. Forrester is a Grenadian lawyer who served as Grenada's Attorney General from 1 January 2021 until 1 July 2022, following the 2022 general election. [1]

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Early life and education

Forrester is the daughter of cultural activist Don Charles and Agnes Forrester. [2] She has a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, a Legal Education Certificate of Merit from Hugh Wooding Law School and a Master of Laws in International Banking and Finance law from University College London. [3] She was also a national table tennis player and OECS table tennis team champion. [4]

Career

Forrester has been a member of the Grenada bar since 2008, and the Saint Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla bar since 2013, [3] practicing in banking and finance law, commercial and civil litigation, taxation, insolvency and intellectual properly law. [2] She has served on the Grenada National Anti-doping Organisation and the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation. [3] She was a partner at the law firm Daniel Brantley. [5] In March 2020, she was named as a defendant in an alleged corruption and breach of confidentiality lawsuit filed in Colorado against St Kitts and Nevis Foreign Affairs Minister Mark Brantley by America 2030 Capital Limited. [6] [7] The suit was dismissed on 7 May 2020. [8]

Forrester was Solicitor General of Grenada from April 2019 until December 2020, representing the government in negotiations and before courts. [3] [4] [9] In August 2020, she participated in the inaugural Women in Politics Leadership Institute at the US Embassy in Barbados. [10]

Forrester was appointed attorney general by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on 31 December 2020, to commence on 1 January 2021, replacing Darsham Ramdhani who stepped down to serve as a judge. Forrester became the first woman to hold the post. [2] [3] She served as a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of Antigua and Barbuda in January and February 2023.

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References

  1. ↑ "Docked salaries of teachers to be repaid | NOW Grenada". www.nowgrenada.com. 2022-07-02. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  2. 1 2 3 "Grenada Appoints First Female Attorney General". Caribbean National Weekly. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Strake, Linda (31 December 2020). "Dia Forrester appointed Grenada's first woman Attorney General". Now Grenada. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Dia Forrester appointed as Grenada's new Attorney General". The New Today. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Ms. Dia C. Forrester". HG Legal Resources.
  6. ↑ "Multiple charges filed in a United States Court against St Kitts-Nevis Foreign Affairs Minister Mark Brantley". KSN Web News. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "A US Company Is Suing The Foreign Affairs Minister Of St. Kitts And The Premier Of Nevis". News Americas. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "America 2030 Capital Limited v. BRANTLEY et al (1:20-cv-00551), Colorado District Court".
  9. ↑ Straker, Linda (10 April 2019). "New Solicitor General appointed". Now Grenada. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "2 Antiguans among 27 young women to graduate from U.S. Embassy's Women in Politics Leadership Institute". Antigua News Room. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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