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Dr. Peter Maynard to speak at next Bahamas Historical Society meeting, June 9th
By Jim Lawlor, BHS
Jun 8, 2011 - 1:30:51 PM

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Nassau, Bahamas - The Bahamas Historical Society presents a talk with Dr. Peter Maynard on Thursday, 9th June at BHS Museum at 6 pm – Dr. Maynard will talk about his book and be available to sign copies (book price $30).

Great Awakening tells the life story of a great cultural icon, Meta Davis Cumberbatch. It shares her inspirations and passion for music, theatre and dance in The Bahamas.

Dr. Peter D. Maynard is Head of Chambers of Peter D. Maynard, Counsel & Attorneys, a highly respected firm on Bay and Deveaux Sts., Nassau, Bahamas, known for service excellence, which deals with civil litigation and international commercial fields, including corporate law, insolvency, insurance, probate, investments, mutual funds, and intellectual property. With over 27 years of experience, he is the immediate past President of both the Bahamas Bar Association and of the 17-member federation of bar associations, called the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations.

He is Chairman of the IBA Access to Justice Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), and a member of its Professional & Public Interest Division Council and its Litigation Committee. He is also National President for The Bahamas of the World Jurist Association.

Every month since 2000, he has operated, with other volunteer lawyers of the Bahamas Bar Association, a free legal aid clinic and restorative justice centre, rotating among a dozen churches in the working class Kemp Road area of Nassau. One such landmark case was the constitutional challenge by Gladstone McEwan which was intended to introduce true voting secrecy to general elections; McEwan won at first instance but lost on appeal to the Privy Council. In 2001, Dr Maynard was the international observer on behalf of the IBA at the decisive constitutional appeal in Fiji of Chandrika Prasad which resulted in the removal of the military installed civilian government and the restoration of the constitution. In 2001 and again in 2004, he observed the use and application of restorative justice in New Zealand. In February 2006, he led a 3-lawyer IBA delegation to East Timor to assist the East Timor Bar Association through an intensive week-long course on ethics, codes of conduct, strategic planning, bar office procedures, and drafting the legislation to recognize the bar association. Recently, on 21 June 2006, he addressed the Inter American Bar Association annual meeting in El Salvador in two speeches in Spanish on the admission of lawyers to the legal profession and the role of bar associations.

Formerly: Acting Magistrate; Legal Adviser, Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Counselor, Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the United Nations, New York; Head of Delegation for the Bahamas at numerous international conferences; Newspaper Columnist for 17 years; Vice Chairman of the Legal Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, New York; Chairman of the U.N. Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-Making Process, New York; Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund.

He holds the following degrees: B.A. (Hons) (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), LL.M. (Cambridge University, Jesus College), and is a Barrister (Bahamas, England and Wales, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and Antigua and Barbuda and pro hac vice Turks and Caicos Islands). He is the author of numerous articles, and is multi-lingual, especially in French and Spanish, but has some familiarity with several other languages.

The Bahamas Historical Society (BHS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in Bahamian History and to the collection and preservation of material relating thereto. Its Headquarters, the former IODE Hall, was a gift from the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). BHS is on Shirley Street and Elizabeth Avenue in Nassau. www.bahamashistoricalsociety. com

All talks at our museum corner of Shirley Street and Elizabeth Avenue Parking at the ex Psilinakis carpark north of the museum on Elizabeth Ave. Entrance via First Caribbean Bank on Shirley Street. – Thanks to Manager Byron Miller (Thanks to Philippa Moss COB English Dept for Map below)