Topic: Legal Practitioners’ Law

Government and opposition are negotiating once again over the reform of the Legal Practitioners Law. The Legal Services Bill seeks to replace the law and introduce a Legal Services Council to regulate the practice of Cayman Islands law.

Attorneys Alasdair Robertson and Stephen Watler between them made a comprehensive case for Cayman’s legislature to pass a new Legal Practitioners Law this year.

Unnamed Cayman Islands law firms are accused of “intentionally ignoring and deliberately circumventing” both the Legal Practitioners Law and Immigration Law, in a private members’ motion filed with the Legislative Assembly.

A pair of controversial bills governing public integrity standards and employment and operating practices for Cayman Islands lawyers are on the Legislative Assembly agenda for its next regularly scheduled meeting in late April.