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Provided by Paul Dennis KC
Kings Counsel Paul Dennis is the firm’s senior partner and head of the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, corporate insolvency, arbitration, and shipping and admiralty law disputes.
The breadth of Paul's experience as an advocate, since first being called to the Bar in his native Jamaica in 1984, includes a two-year tenure as Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in that jurisdiction.
Since 1993, when he was called to the British Virgin Islands Bar, he has appeared in many leading international commercial cases at all levels of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London – the BVI’s highest appellate court. In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments as an advocate, Paul was appointed one of His Majesty’s Counsel on March 18, 2013.
Paul formerly served as a judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, on temporary assignment to the twin-island Federation of St. Kitts & Nevis, hearing a wide variety of commercial cases. He is a current member of the BVI International Arbitration Centre’s arbitration panel.
In October 2020, he was appointed by Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LLD, as Chairperson of the Disciplinary Tribunal pursuant to Section 27 (2)(a) of the Legal Profession Act of the Virgin Islands, 2015.
Paul graduated from the University of the West Indies & the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica. He has served for many years as a lecturer in law at the BVI campus of the UWI’s School of Continuing Studies.
A past President of the BVI Bar Association and a former Council Member of the Eastern Caribbean Bar Association, Paul has served on numerous advisory committees concerning the law, the legal profession, and the administration of justice in the BVI and the wider Eastern Caribbean region.
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University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
Norman Manley Law School (Jamaica)
British Virgin Islands
Eastern Caribbean
The O’Neal Webster legal team of Paul Dennis, K.C. and Nadine Whyte Laing successfully defended the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank against claims in excess of US $200m in total, brought by the depositors of two Anguillian “offshore” banks, National Bank of Anguilla (Private Banking and Trust) Limited and Caribbean Commercial Investment Bank Limited. The claims arose out of the Central Bank’s intervention into the affairs of the parent banks of these entities – the National Bank of Anguilla Limited and the Caribbean Commercial Bank of (Anguilla) Limited, respectively – exercising emergency regulatory powers conferred by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Agreement, aimed at preserving the financial stability of Anguilla’s banking sector and that of the wider Eastern Caribbean sub-region.
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Paul Dennis KC is one of the jurisdiction's most seasoned dispute resolution lawyers. He is well versed in financial services disputes as well as cases concerning trusts and estates. He is also regularly instructed as an advocate in proceedings elsewhere in the Caribbean.
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Paul is a hugely experienced Caribbean silk.
Paul is a hugely experienced Caribbean silk.
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O’Neal Webster Successfully Defends Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in Multi-Million Dollar Claim
O’Neal Webster's partners Paul B. Dennis, Q.C. and Nadine Whyte Laing mounted a successful defense for the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in a multi-million dollar claim brought by the depositors of two Anguillian offshore banks in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal.
O’Neal Webster Successfully Defends Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in Multi-Million Dollar Claim
O’Neal Webster's partners Paul B. Dennis, Q.C. and Nadine Whyte Laing mounted a successful defense for the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in a multi-million dollar claim brought by the depositors of two Anguillian offshore banks in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal.
