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Provided by Oscar N. Johnson, Jr. KC

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Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Civil Litigation

Admiralty Law

Employment Law

Industrial Relations

Career

Oscar N. Johnson, Jr., K.C. served as Managing Partner and Global Managing Director of Higgs & Johnson from 2012 to June, 2020. He currently serves as Co-Managing Partner of the Firm. He is the former chair of the Litigation practice group and practises a full range of Corporate and Commercial law. He regularly appears in the Supreme Court (High Court), and the Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and before the Privy Council.

Professional Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (1985)

Bahamas Bar Association (1985)

International Bar Association

Publications

Guilty Till Proven Innocent: Safeguarding the Rights of Pre-Trial Detainees Across the Commonwealth, International Board of the CHRI (2022)

Enforcement of Foreign Judgements (Bahamas), Lexology, Getting the Deal Through (2021-2020)

The Bahamas: Employer Obligations During COVID-19 (April 2020)

Personal

Oscar has served as a member of The Bridge Authority, the Disciplinary Tribunal, the Arbitration Tribunal, as advisor to the Nassau Tourism & Development Board and on the Board of Directors of St. Andrew’s International School. He is a member of the International Bar Association and the Bahamas Bar Association where he previously served as a member of the Ethics Committee

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