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President |
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Attride-Stirling :
is the Senior Partner of Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. He received his LL.B Degree from the University of Buckingham 1989 and did the Law Society Finals at Chester College of Law in England. His areas of practice are in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance and reinsurance law. Mr. Attride-Stirling is a member of: the Insurance Advisory Committee, the International Business Forum, the US/Bermuda Tax Convention Advisory Committee (all three are Bermuda Government advisory bodies) and is Chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal. He has recently been Chairman of the Investment Business Act Review Committee and Chairman of the Bermuda Human Rights Commission. |
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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. |
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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 4 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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Harry Kessaram :
is a partner and heads 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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Justin William :
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 two years, the
CLE Committee for the last three years and as of last year 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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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 employed 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 would be a welcome
addition to the Bar Council. |
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Hil S De Frias :
is an experienced Trusts and
Property lawyer of ten years call and has sound judgment and wide scope of
professional interest. Hil is a role model for the younger members of the
profession and will bring perspective to the Bar Council’s deliberations
on current issues. Hil also will balance the weighting of Bar Council to
litigation practice which will be of benefit to the profession
generally. |
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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. mailto:rhorseman@wq.bm. |
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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 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. We believe he will contribute significantly to the Bar Council. |
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Attorney General (ex-officio)
Kim Wilson. |
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