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Bedell Cristin

PO BOX 75, 26 NEW STREET, ST HELIER, JE2 3RA, JERSEY

Tel:: Work 01534 814814
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Web:: www.bedellgroup.com
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St Peter Port, St Helier, London

David Cadin

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Litigation group.

Position

Partner – litigation department. Has a wide and varied litigation practice, ranging from trust and land estates litigation through to clinical negligence; extensive experience in banking and regulatory work, including proceeds of crime and money laundering.

Career

Qualified 1990; pupillage in the Chambers of Alan Rawley QC (now Outer Temple Chambers) 1990-91; member 2 King’s Bench Walk, Temple London 1991-2000; lawyer Mourant Du Feu & Jeune 2000-02; advocate of the Royal Court 2002; joined Bedell Cristin 2002; partner 2005.

Education

Victoria College, Jersey; Exeter University (1989 LLB2(1)); Inns of Court School of Law (1990); ADR accredited mediator (2004).

Leisure

Cycling, sailing.

Practice Areas

Contentious trusts and probate; Litigation - banking; Litigation - commercial

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The Precarious Business of Providing a Reference

Providing a reference for a departing or former employee can be a tricky task. Any negligent or deliberate errors could lead to compensation pay-outs and it is therefore crucial to strike the right balance.

- Bedell Cristin

Legal Developments in Jersey

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The New Security Interests (Jersey) Law 201- (the "New SIL") (yet to come into force)

An executive summary - January 2012

- Carey Olsen
Planning Law: The Court can remit matters back to the Minister on appeal

Summary The Royal Court has just handed down a judgment in a case involving an appeal against a decision of the Minister (then Senator Cohen) to refuse planning permission which is significant in two respects.

- Carey Olsen
MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL GUIDE 2012 INVESTMENT FUNDS

Jersey James Mulholland, Robert Milner and Daniel O’Connor - Carey Olsen

- Carey Olsen
Jersey opens doors to Private Placement Funds

The Jersey Financial Services Commission has adopted a new policy setting out a fast track, self-certification procedure for authorising a "Private Placement Fund", being a fund: • which is either established in Jersey or managed in Jersey • which is closed ended • whose units are offered to not more than fifty investors • which only admits "sophisticated investors" or professional investors" (see appendix)

- Carey Olsen
Jersey Private Placement Funds

From January 2012 a new streamlined regulatory authorisation process for the establishment of privately placed funds is available in Jersey.

- Mourant Ozannes
Treasury services for local Jersey property developer clients

Enhancing client cash deposits

- Ogier
Directors' concerns: Distributions and dividends

Distributions and dividends

- Mourant Ozannes
The Precarious Business of Providing a Reference

Providing a reference for a departing or former employee can be a tricky task. Any negligent or deliberate errors could lead to compensation pay-outs and it is therefore crucial to strike the right balance.

- Bedell Cristin
To Earmark Or Not To Earmark

This briefing sets out some of the concerns that clients are sharing in relation to earmarking trust assets for share plan management and a practical solution to this problem.

- Ogier
Establishing and Operating a Cayman Investment Fund

A. INVESTMENT FUNDS 1. Documents 1.1 Generally, the documents involved in the establishment of an investment fund in the Cayman Islands include the following:

- Ogier