Stanbrook Prudhoe

Litigation

Lawyer.

Also admitted in the following jurisdictions:

• Ontario, Canada
• British Virgin Islands
• Belize
• Jamaica
• Montserrat
• St. Kitts and Nevis
• Turks and Caicos Islands

Nadia is an experienced advocate who specialises in complex commercial litigation and multi-jurisdictional disputes across the Caribbean.

Nadia acts for clients on disputes involving shareholder rights and director’s duties, urgent injunctive relief, the registration and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and offshore trusts and estates matters. She also assists clients with anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance issues, including extra-territorial freeze orders pursuant to anti-money laundering legislation, MLAT enforcement, treaty rights and obligations in these areas, and general due diligence relating to offshore banking and trusts requirements.

She has appeared as lead counsel before the Caribbean Court of Justice, and frequently represents clients at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, as well as all levels of court in Ontario.

With a keen interest in Constitutional litigation, Nadia has successfully acted in precedent-setting challenges to the anti-LGBT laws in St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Prior to joining the firm, Nadia was a partner at a Bay Street law firm in Toronto, Canada.

English

Commonwealth Lawyers Association

Caribono

The Advocates’ Society

Alumni Mentor, Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto)

Bachelor of Journalism (Honours), Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)

Osgoode Hall Law School, JD

Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad, LEC

Recent writing and speaking engagements:

Panellist, “Disclosure, Documents, Despositions, and More: A Discussion of Pre-trial Discovery Practices around the Globe”, American Bar Association’s International Law Section 2024 Annual Conference, May 2024

Co-Author, “Aspects of Comparative Insolvency in the Caribbean, Central (Belize) and South (Guyana) America”, Gore-Browne on Companies Special Release March 2024

Speaker, “Cheat, Prey, Shove: Attorneys’ Ethical Obligations under Jamaica Canons of Professional Ethics“, Jamaican Bat Association’s Annual Legal Conference, December 2023

Speaker, “Mental Incapacity – Offshore Developments”, STEP Bermuda, November 2023

Co-presenter, STEP BVI, “Case Update in the Era of Sanctions Sledgehammer”, 28 September 2023

Faculty, McGill SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy, Montreal, Canada May 30-June 1, 2023

Chair, “Practical legal training – Is online training effective? Lessons learned from the pandemic”, 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference 2023, Goa, India, March 8, 2023

Speaker, “Commercial Injunctions: What Clients Need to Know About the Undertaking as to Damages”, Jamaican Bar Association’s Annual Legal Conference, December 2022

Guest Lecturer, “Shareholder Remedies: From Legislation to Real Life”, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada, November 16, 2022

Guest Lecturer, “Shareholder Remedies: From Legislation to Real Life”, MonaLaw (LLM), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, November 14, 2022

Guest Lecturer, “Litigation Across Borders and Legal Cultures: A Practical Perspective”, McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, October 5, 2022