Nicholson Phillips, Attorneys-at-Law

The Case for Structured mentoring in the legal profession

Lorna Phillips — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:24:00 +0000

Setting Up Junior Lawyers to Succeed The Jamaican Bar Association has been trying for a while now to encourage established and senior lawyers to volunteer in the mentoring of newly called attorneys. A good and worthwhile effort. However, is volunteerism really the way to go? In this article, I briefly outline the merits of introducing …

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Critical Pandemic Planning for Jamaican Businesses

Nicholson Phillips — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:04:00 +0000

In a speech to the nation last Friday (13th of March), Prime Minister Andrew Holness issued the Disaster Risk Management (Declaration of Disaster Area) Order 2020 declaring the whole of Jamaica a disaster area due to the increasing spread of COVID-19. Further, in light of a number of persons presenting with flu-like symptoms who came …

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Data Privacy & Protection law on its way

Nicholson Phillips — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:59:00 +0000

With technology increasingly pervading every aspect of our personal and business lives, the time has come for Jamaica to forge ahead with its promise to safeguard the privacy of individuals, by providing privacy and security protections over personal data that is managed by data controllers. Indeed, Jamaica is gearing to do so through the looming …

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Nominee Directors Beware!

Nicholson Phillips — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:38:00 +0000

The Supreme Court decision in Brilliant Investments Limited v Jennifer Messado, Jennifer Braham and Rory Chinn [2019] JMCC COMM. 26 placed an important thumbprint on the development of commercial and company law in Jamaica. Though case addressed varied issues such as the question of agency, the nature of contract and fraud, this article focuses on …

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Electronic Titling – The Developments

Nicholson Phillips — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:01:00 +0000

In April last year we wrote that the Land administration processes and its supporting technology were in desperate need for reform. Little wonder since in May that same year, Jamaica ranked in 131st place in the World Bank Doing Business for ease of registering property. Thankfully, progress is being made and much has been done …

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A Cryptocurrency Reality in Jamaica?

Nicholson Phillips — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:42:00 +0000

In August last year, the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) announced that it will carry out a live-trading pilot of Bitcoin and Ethereum (both are types of cryptocurrencies). This was made possible after the JSE signed an agreement with a Canadian Fintech firm called Blockchain to introduce an end-to-end crypto trading platform called Blockstation that would …

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