Higgs & Johnson
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Rhyan Elliott
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Work Department
Litigation
Position
Rhyan Elliott is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.
Rhyan has practiced extensively in various areas of Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, with a particular focus on matters with a cross-border element, in banking, financial services regulation, insurance, employment, personal injuries, fatal accidents, professional negligence, and property law. He has also gained wide experience acting on behalf of parties in divorce and complex matrimonial finance proceedings.
Rhyan has experience representing both individual and institutional clients, including Investment Managers, Liquidators and Receivers at all stages of litigation, including interlocutory applications, at trial and on appeal. He has acted for many individual claimants and several insurance companies and re-insurers in quantifying, negotiating and defending numerous complex personal injuries, malpractice and fatal accidents claims.
Career
Rhyan has also frequently represented the interests of both Vendors and Purchasers in Commercial and Real Estate transactions and has represented parties, including land developers, in property disputes relating to documentary and possessory title, trespass, easements, boundaries and restrictive covenants.
Rhyan regularly appears as both Junior and Lead Counsel before the Industrial Tribunal, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas. Rhyan has also appeared as Junior Counsel on behalf of the successful parties before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.