WILLIAM J. L. BLAIR

'William James Lynton Blair' (born March 31, 1950) is a British QC, specialising in domestic and international banking and finance law (his younger brother is the previous British Prime Minister Tony Blair ).
He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded a BA in 1971 and he was called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1972.
He is Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics (1994-) and at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London (1999-). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (1997], and an academic adviser to the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (1999-).
He is a Recorder of the Crown Court (1998-), a Deputy High Court Judge (2003-) and has been admitted as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the Virgin Islands (2003). And, since 2001 he has served, part-time, as Chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal (Finsmat) and from 2003 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Commercial Bar Association (Combar). He is Chairman of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (2004) and of the Qatar Financial Centre Appeals Body (2006).

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Publications

★ Co-editor of the ''Encyclopaedia of Banking Law'', Butterworths, London

★ Co-author of ''Banking and Financial Services Regulation'' (3rd edition), Butterworths, London, 2002,

★ Editor of ''Banks and Remedies'', LLP, London, 1999,

★ General editor of ''Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings'', 14th edition (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2001)

★ Editor of ''Banks, Liability and Risk'', 3rd edition, (LLP, London, 2001).

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★ William Blair QC