Judy Hylton

Practice Areas

Judy Grace Hylton heads Hylton & Hylton's six member Conveyancing Department, specializing in residential and commercial land sales, medium and large scale real estate developments, probate and administration, estate planning and trusts.

With a reputation for uncompromising quality and solution oriented hands-on service, Judy’s clients receive the same level of care and attention whether they are selling a 700 room Hotel, developing a 500 unit 3 phase land development, acquiring major lands to expand the English speaking region’s largest wharfage interests, purchasing 400 parcels of land as part of a multi national entity acquisition, or are a bereaved UK family resealing a grant or a young couple buying a first home.

Admitted to practice in Jamaica 1988, Judy practiced in the British Virgin Islands between 1995 and 2002 and was head of the Corporate Services Department and thereafter the Trust Department of one of the world’s largest offshore trust companies.

Judy has been a member of the United Kingdom Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) since 1999 and was a member of the Board of the Investigative Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica for over a decade. She is a Notary Public, and currently serves as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Notaries Public Society of Jamaica.

She is passionate about making positive contributions to her community, and as such, has given significant service to the Rotary Movement since 2001, serving as President of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew in the 2012-2013 Rotary year, and as the Assistant Governor of Rotary International District 7020 from 2016 to 2019.

She has also conducted lectures in conveyancing and probate law at the Norman Manley Law School and for private real estate broker companies. Her 2019 lecture to the Annual Conference of the Jamaican Bar Association was entitled - The Perils of Complex Commercial Real Estate Transactions, and aptly demonstrated the breadth of her scholarship and practical experience in the area.

Her expertise and status have facilitated the firm being licensed by the Financial Services Commission of Jamaica, as being one of the few in Jamaica certified as fit and proper to provide trust and corporate services under the Trust and Corporate Services Providers Act.

Judy Hylton is ranked as one of the best attorneys in Jamaica by the world’s leading legal services rating organisation, Chambers & Partners. The independent legal services ranking body summarises her reputation as follows:-

"Judy Hylton is a skilled lawyer who leads the conveyancing practice of Hylton & Hylton. She acts on a range of real estate transactions, predominately sales and acquisitions, in addition to having strong experience in trust matters."

"Judy Hylton has years of practice in real estate and trust work, and is very dependable in those areas."