Ten Questions to Ask Your Potential Lawyer
Lawyers will often provide a low-cost consultation to discuss the details of your situation and give you an opportunity to ask some basic questions about the attorney. This meeting should not only help you decide whether to go forward with a lawyer in general, but...
Private Funding of Legal Services in the Cayman Islands
Since my previous note on litigation funding, The Cayman Islands have passed the Private Funding of Legal Services Act, 2020 (PLFS), which has abolished the common law offences of maintenance and champerty. PLFS made a host of amendments to Cayman Islands law, which...
Litigation Funding
I am intrigued by litigation funding. An Irish Judge once said: “In England, justice is open to all-like the Ritz Hotel”. How can justice, like the doors of the Ritz hotel, be open to all if only the wealthy can afford lawyers fees? Is litigation funding the answer or...
Solicitors entry requirements and artificial intelligence
The legal profession in the Cayman Islands is facing “modernization” in the form of the Legal Services Bill which will soon be submitted to the Legislative Assembly. In the meantime, in the UK the Solicitors Regulatory Authority has approved plans to enable law...
The Legal Services Bill, 2020
The most important news item in the Cayman Islands affecting the legal profession is the imminent submission to the Legislative Assembly of the Legal Services Bill, 2020 (the Bill). The purpose of the Bill is to modernize the legal profession because the current Law...Read more“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce
Legal Q&A – Natural Disasters
What’s the single most important step that employers should take before the storm hits to help employees return quickly to work once the danger of a natural disaster has passed? Employers should ensure their employees are educated and aware of what actions...Amor Fati: Embrace the change
An article entitled “Bosses must follow labour law” which appeared in Cayman News Service this week set me to thinking about the employment law issues which will, and are, arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The article made depressing reading because the thrust of...Read more“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.”
Blaise Pascal