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Philip C DunkleyHiggs & Johnson : Counsel & Attorneys-at-Law, Nassau, Freeport & Lyford Cay, Bahamas
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Philip C Dunkley
Senior Partner
Phone: 242 362 6268/9Fax: 242 362 5569E-mail: pdunkley@higgsjohnson.com
Mr. 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.
Mr. Dunkley 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.
Mr. 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.