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September 07, 2012
Cutlass Victim Tells Lawyer She Has Screw Loose

A man testifying in Supreme Court about an attack on his life by a cutlass-wielding man told the defending attorney cross-examining him yesterday that she had a screw loose in her head.

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September 04, 2012
Cutlass Suspect Missing Lawyer

A man on trial in connection with a cutlass attack on another man said he has not seen or heard from his lawyer since December last year.

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August 29, 2012
Lawyer Claims Newspaper Committed Libel In Article

A lawyers, suspended from his legal practice for two months by the Court of Appeal, is suing a local daily for publishing a story he claims has defamed him.

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June 11, 2012
Callenders Lawyer Outlines 3-Step Process for Int'l Aircraft Registry

Callenders & Co. Senior Associate Llewellyn Boyer-Cartwright, a former commercial jet pilot and the first Bahamian to be admitted to the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, today outlined a three-step process he says could pave the way for the establishment of an aircraft registry in The Bahamas.

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May 09, 2012
Major Regional Honour for Bahamian Lawyer

Environmental attorney, consultant and popular TV morning show host Romauld 'Romi' Ferreira has been selected by CARICOM as an environmental legal expert to help develop a legal framework for the energy sector in eight countries in the Caribbean, including a model for laws governing renewable energy.

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October 20, 2009
Registrar General need not be a lawyer

The Registrar General of the Courts does not have to be a lawyer, a bill passed by Members of Parliament stated.

According to the amendment to the Registrar General Act, a person who holds a Master of Business Administration or is trained in Public Administration may hold the post.

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January 19, 2012
Union engages lawyers amid Atlantis debacle

Executives of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) have engaged lawyers to ensure the rights of its members employed at Atlantis are upheld.

The BHCAWU said it will do everything in its power to ensure that the more than 7,000 jobs are secure, following the decision by lender Brookfield Asset Management to pull out of a debt-for-equity swap with Kerzner International.

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January 05, 2012
Lawyer seeks rejection of extradition request for accused drug traffickers

A lawyer yesterday tried to convince a magistrate to reject an extradition request for accused drug traffickers.

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January 04, 2012
Bar Council Defers Disbarred Lawyer's Readmission Request

The Bahamas Bar Council has deferred its decision on disbarred lawyer Leon Smith's application to practice again. Smith was disbarred in 2001 after $400,000 reportedly went missing from a client's account. Smith applied for readmission in 2008 and once again in October last year.?

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November 03, 2011
Lawyer 'Frustrated' By Report Delay

THE lawyer representing the families of the men who were killed in the Lake Killarney plane crash is "frustrated" at not receiving an official investigation report from the Department of Civil Aviation.

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October 20, 2011
Colin Callender QC elected Director of International Academy of Trial Lawyers

Colin E. Callender, QC, managing partner of The Bahamas? oldest law firm, Callenders & Co., was elected a Director of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) at the prestigious Academy's annual meeting in New York recently, becoming one of only five attorneys in the world outside the United States to hold a current directorship.

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October 19, 2011
Colin Callender, QC, Elected Director of International Academy of Trial Lawyers

Colin E. Callender, QC, managing partner of The Bahamas' oldest law firm, Callenders & Co., was elected a Director of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) at the prestigious Academy's annual meeting in New York recently, becoming one of only five attorneys in the world outside the United States to hold a current directorship.

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September 19, 2011
Bahamas Urged: Follow China on Foriegn Lawyers

THE BAHAMAS must take a leaf out of China and Barbados's play book when it comes to foreign investment openness, a leading accountant said yesterday, adding that through providing a platform for foreign law firms had helped both nations grow.

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October 24, 2010
Disbarred lawyer's plea ends in arrest

A disbarred attorney's application to be reinstated by the Bahamas Bar Association ended in his arrest outside the Supreme Court building in Bank Lane yesterday.

Leon Smith had gone to the Bar Association seeking to be reinstated after he was disbarred in 2004, presenting the missing accounting for $400,000 which had been missing from the previous tribunal and resulted in him being fined and st...

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October 22, 2010
Judge orders arrest of AG's Office lawyer

THE DEPUTY Director of Public Prosecutions had to rush to the Appeals Court yesterday to bail out one of his legal staff who was ordered arrested after she sat down saying she could be of no further assistance to the court in the case before it.

According to sources present during the proceedings, lawyer Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, representing the Attorney General's office, was ordered to be taken ...

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October 19, 2010
Lawyers rapped by judge appear to have escaped punishment

Lawyers severely discredited in a Supreme Court judgment appear to have escaped contempt action and disciplinary measures despite being criticised by a senior judge for serious misconduct and wasting court time.

Magistrate Derrence Rolle was appointed to the bench three years after he was criticised by Senior Justice John Lyons in his judgment on the Arawak Homes case. The appointment was made ...

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Lewis & Longley
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Lewis & Longley

#16 Ivanhoe Road, Clara Mae Building
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas


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Douglas Sands & Associates Ltd

Columbus House, 2nd Floor, East & Shirley Street
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas


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Allen Allen & Co
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Allen Allen & Co

Dowdeswell Street
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas


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July 25, 2016
Karpov at Bahamas chess event

Chess legend Anatoly Karpov is the special guest in Nassau for the Caribbean Sub Zonal Chess Championship, which takes place up until tomorrow.

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