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President |
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| Kiernan J Bell is a partner at Appleby , and has been a member of Bar Council since 2000. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1993, and the Bermuda Bar in 1994. She is a commercial litigator with practice specialities in professional negligence, shareholder disputes, corporate governance, insurance and reinsurance. Ms. Bell is a member of the International Bar Association and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Kiernan is a member of the Professional Conduct Committee as well as a member of the Legal Education Committee. Kiernan formerly Chaired the CLE Committee. |
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| Vice President |
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| Delroy B Duncan a partner of Trott & Duncan, was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1989. He obtained his Law Degree from the University of North London and his Masters’ Degree in Commercial Law from the University of Guildhall. In 1984 he was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a member of Gray’s Inn. Following pupilage, he was taken on as a tenant in Cloisters, a set of Chambers world renowned for judicial review cases. There he began to enhance his general practice by extensive work with commercial contracts, intellectual property, contracts and issues relating to the incorporation of private companies. As the Head of the Litigation Department, he has been involved in civil, criminal and commercial litigation. In particular, he has been involved in many judicial review cases. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the National Bar Association of America and a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers in America. For the past 5 years, he has been on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bermuda Bar Council. He volunteers advice and legal assistance to the Marsden Methodist Church and the West Indian Association. |
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| Honorary Secretary |
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| Justin Williams
gained his law degree from Buckingham University and was the recipient of the Middle Temple’s 1988 Campbell-Foster Award. Justin was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1989. He has practiced in the field of litigation. He has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. He sits as an Acting Magistrate, Coroner and Chairman of Family Court. He has been on the Bar Council for the past eight years, the CLE Committee for the last four years and as of two years ago he became a founding member of the Bermuda Section of the International Commission of Jurists. Also, he has volunteered legal advice and time to local charitable and community organizations such as St. John’s Ambulance, of which he is deputy chairman. |
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| Harry Kessaram
is a consultant with the Private Client department at Cox Hallett Wilkinson. He specializes in property law, estates and trusts. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1984 and the Bermuda Bar in 1985. He is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, the Bermuda Bar Association and the law reform sub-committee of conveyancing. Harry graduated in 1976 from McGill University, Canada CB.SC. in biochemistry. After completing his B.Ed. at Queens University he taught for a short while before entering law school in England, where he graduated with an LL.B. Hons. From Buckingham University. |
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| Karen Williams-Smith
was educated at the University of London, and has been practicing in Bermuda since 1991 in the area of matrimonial matters principally. She is a partner at Trott & Duncan. Karen has a masters degree in human resources and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators. She has been an active member of the family bar throughout her practicing years and has been a member of Bar Council for the last 6 years. |
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| Richard Thomas Horseman. Born in Bermuda, 1963, admitted to bermuda Bar 1997. Education; Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri (Bachelors in Business Management with emphaisi in Business Administration 1988) University of Buckingham (LLB 1995) Practice Areas: Criminal and Civil Litigation, Probate and Trust Law. |
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| Christian Luthi is a Bermudian and was educated in Bermuda, the United States and England. After completing his law degree at Oxford University he completed the CLE Bar Finals and pupilage at 7 Knights Bench Walk and Erskine Chambers prior to joining Conyers Dill & Pearman in 1994. He subsequently became partner in 2002. He has practiced in litigation at CD&P in all areas of civil litigation including company, insolvency, employment, and commercial litigation. He has served on the Continuing Legal Education Committee since its inception and is now Chair to Committee. He is also the secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He currently sits on the Mental Health Review Tribunal and the Appeals Tribunal for the Banks and Deposit Companies Act. |
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| Barclay Simmonswas a founding Partner of Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999. Formerly an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York , Barclay returned to Bermuda in 2006 as Managing Partner of ASW. Previously Chairman of the Telecommunications Commission and a Commissioned Officer in the Bermuda Regiment, Barclay is a graduate of Harvard Business School , the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Inns of Court School of Law and the University of Kent at Canterbury . He is currently a Director of the Bermuda Monetary Authority and Chairman of its investment committee. Concurrently, he sits on the Public Funds Investment Committee responsible for advising the Minister of Finance on the investment of Bermuda 's pension fund. |
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| Elizabeth Christopher was called to the Bar in England & Wales in November 1990 and the Bermuda Bar in April 1991. She was educated at the College of William and Mary before achieving a law degree at the London school of Economics and Political Science. She has sat on many committees which concerns themselves with the advancement of criminal law in Bermuda . She has appeared before courts and tribunals at all levels including the Privy Council. |
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Attorney General (ex-officio)
Kim Wilson. |
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