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07/13/2018

The Opportunity of a Lifetime: The Bahamas as a Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

In the late 2010s, the Government of The Bahamas enacted The Arbitration Act, 2009 as “an act to restate...

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06/22/2018

INSOL New York – Bahamas Update

Insolvent trust - A novel area of the law in The Bahamas and other common law jurisdictions where there...

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04/24/2018

Artificial Intelligence in the Law

At the 2017 Firm seminar, Weathering a Changing Climate, we discussed the opportunity, myths and reality of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)...

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04/23/2018

Trusts in the Cayman Islands

A trust is a legal relationship where one party (the “Settlor”) transfers property to the Trustee to hold the legal...

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04/20/2018

Sham – To Be or Not to Be? A summary of the MezhProm Bank v Pugachev decision

On 11th October 2017, the English High Court of Justice, Chancery Division published its decision in JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy...

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11/18/2017

Protection of the Fruits of Advice by Privilege

The doctrine of legal professional privilege will most commonly arise where a party is requested to produce documents in...

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01/31/2017

Cybercrime Under Bahamian Law

Accusations of Russian hacking and WikiLeaks data dumps have once again directed our attention to the pervasive problem of...