Practice groups
Jonathan Deal is an associate in the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. His areas of practice include Trust and Estates, complex commercial disputes and Employment Law.
Jonathan assists senior Higgs & Johnson attorneys in i) advising fiduciaries in relation to the administration of Bahamas law governed trusts; ii) representing fiduciaries in non-contentious, confidential proceedings under the Trustee Act, 1998 and the Rule Against Perpetuities (Abolition) Act, 2011; iii) acting in a variety of contentious disputes concerning commercial contracts and real property; and iv) acting in employment matters involving wrongful/unfair dismissal.
Jonathan obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree with Distinction from Dalhousie University in 2013, majoring in Economics. He subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Upper Second-Class Honours from the University of Birmingham in 2016. He went on to complete the Bar Professional Training Course at Cardiff University in 2017, achieving a result of “Outstanding” and receiving the Joan Denning Prize from the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn for his performance. In 2018, he obtained a Master of Laws in Commercial Law with Distinction from the University of Bristol and received an Award for being the top-performing student on his degree pathway.
Jonathan was called to the Bars of England and Wales and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas in 2017. He became an Associate of the firm in 2019 following the completion of one year of pupillage.
Education
- Bachelor of Science (Economics) (Distinction), Dalhousie University
- Bachelor of Laws (Upper Second-Class Honours), University of Birmingham
- Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Professional Training, Cardiff University
- Master of Laws (Commercial Law) (Distinction), University of Bristol
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2017
- Bahamas, 2017
Memberships
- Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
- Bahamas Bar Association