Printer-Friendly View | Normal View
H&J : Honor Et Integritas Higgs & Johnson, Counsel & Attorneys-at-Law
Attorney Profile <Back to Directory>
 
 
Lyford Cay
Deltec House
Lyford Cay
P.O. Box N-3247
New Providence, Bahamas
 
Area of Practice
Chancery Civil and Commercial Litigation
Commercial Law (including banking and trusts)
 
Education
Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire, England
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
 
Admissions
England and Wales, 1973
Bahamas, 1974
 
Publications

International Execution against Judgment Debtors (Bahamas chapter); Sweet and Maxwell

International Commercial Fraud (Bahamas chapter); Sweet and Maxwell

Impact of New Legislation in The Bahamas on Trust Attacks
; Trusts & Trustees

 
Memberships

Bahamas Bar Association

International Bar Association

Association and Legal Scholars, Centre for International Legal Studies Salzburg, Austria (Honorary) Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Philip C Dunkley

Senior Partner

Phone: 242 362 6268/9
Fax: 242 362 5569
E-mail: pdunkley@higgsjohnson.com

 
Philip C. Dunkley specialises in complex commercial and chancery litigation, appearing in many of the leading commercial cases at the Bahamas Bar, including the BCCI and Grupo Torras cases, and the Oracle Fund liquidation. He is Higgs & Johnson’s Senior Partner and long-serving Litigation Department head.

Philip was educated in England, studying at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1973 and to the Bahamas Bar in 1974. He joined Higgs & Johnson in 1974 as an Associate and was invited to join the partnership in 1978. He became Senior Partner in 1999.

Philip Dunkley has served as a member of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, the Supreme Court Rules Committee and Disciplinary Tribunal, and as acting Justice of the Supreme Court. He is a former lecturer in Civil Procedure and Evidence and has authored chapters on The Bahamas in several legal publications, including International Execution against Judgment Debtors and International Commercial Fraud (Sweet and Maxwell); and Impact of New Legislation in The Bahamas on Trust Attacks (Trusts & Trustees)

Mr. Dunkley is an honorary member of the Association and Legal Scholars, Centre for International Legal Studies Salzburg, Austria; and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

© 2006 Higgs & Johnson; All Rights Reserved, Disclaimer & Copyright Site Map