Satcha Kissoon

Practice Areas

Construction, Employment and Labor, Insurance, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Public Law

Career

Satcha Kissoon is a Senior Partner at One Legal Caribbean, the firm’s multi-jurisdictional legal practice operating across Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He is a member of the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution practice and also focuses on construction, employment and labour, insurance, and administrative law. Satcha is admitted to practice in 13 jurisdictions, as an Attorney-at-Law in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and St Kitts and Nevis. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Double Major, a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law, all from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.

Satcha was formerly the Regional Head of Litigation for the largest global law firm in the world. He has over 22 years of legal experience and has successfully argued before all levels of court in the Caribbean, with a primary focus on commercial litigation, administrative law, admiralty, employment and labour, and construction disputes. He has regularly appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Notably, he argued the first Employment Law matter to the CCJ from the Court of Appeal of Barbados, where he successfully urged the CCJ to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeal on behalf of Sandy Lane Hotel. He also appeared as lead counsel in the historic CCJ case of Clarence Sealy v R in 2016, where the CCJ endorsed and laid down principles on which a trial judge is required to direct a jury. He again successfully urged the CCJ to set aside the Barbados Court of Appeal in a landmark 2018 decision for Sandy Lane Hotel, which changed the procedure of appeals to the Court of Appeal. In 2020, he urged the CCJ to reverse the Court of Appeal in the first matter arising from the Employment Rights Act to be argued in the CCJ, in Chefette Restaurants v Orlando Harris, successfully arguing that the Tribunal’s unfettered approach to damages was wrong.

Satcha sat as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association for six years and has also tutored at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies. He continues to be ranked in Chambers Global for Caribbean Wide Dispute Resolution.