Mr Philip Dunkley KC > Higgs & Johnson > Lyford, Bahamas > Lawyer Profile

Higgs & Johnson
Lyford Crescent, Western Road
LYFORD CAY
Bahamas

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Senior Partner; specialises in complex commercial and chancery litigation (appearing in the BCCI, Grupo Torras cases and the Oracle Fund liquidation), commercial and shipping transactions; civil litigation; admiralty law and shipping; and private wealth management.

Career

Partner since 1978; Former member – Judicial & Legal Services Commission, the Supreme Court Rules Committee and Disciplinary Tribunal. Former Acting Justice of the Supreme Court. Appointed as QC (2009)

Memberships

Bahamas Bar Association; The Honourable Society of the MIddle Temple; International Bar Association; STEP; Association and Disciplinary Tribunal; STEP; Association and Legal Scholars, Centre for International Legal Studies (Honorary)

Education

Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire England; Bar of England & Wales (1973); Bahamas Bar (1974)