Topic: Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association
Criminal defence bar group forms
A new body designed to focus on lawyers practising at the criminal bar has been launched.
Updates to Cayman’s legal system continue, professional body says
The re-elected president of Cayman's professional's body for lawyers has said he looked forward to the further modernisation of the country's legal system in his new term
Top legal figures weigh anonymity plea for alleged sex offenders
Legal heavyweights have examined a lawyer's plea to give defendants in sex assault cases the same right to anonymity as victims.
Bulgin: Cayman suffering from ‘review fatigue’
The Cayman Islands anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime underwent significant changes in 2019 and Attorney General Samuel Bulgin has said it will continue this year.
CILPA: Legal services reform needed
The Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association says the country will face a severe economic crisis if it continues to fail to properly regulate its “single biggest export”, legal services.
Registration begins for Cayman law firms
The hard work of registering Cayman’s many disparate law firms has begun.
Legal practitioners elect association’s council
Cayman’s legal profession has completed its changing of the guard.
Letter: Remembering Arthur Hunter
CILPA would like to express condolences to his family, friends and those who had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Hunter.
Legal amendments recognize Cayman’s new law association
The Legislative Assembly approved a bill that amended several laws as a result of the merger of the Caymanian Bar Association with the Cayman Islands Law Society.
Lawmakers: Mass of bills to change ‘lives of generations’
Cayman Islands lawmakers are set to review and approve an unprecedented number of bills in the Legislative Assembly meeting that begins Tuesday, some of which involve complex, long-standing issues that have been before parliament for more than a decade.
Opposition says gov’t must protect financial services, local lawyers
A balance must be struck between protecting Cayman’s financial services industry and ensuring Caymanian attorneys can receive “a piece of the pie” from gaining employment and promotion in locally operating law firms, opposition party members said this week.
