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Current Issue
- Take-Over Bids
- Maternity Protection in the Workplace
June 2022
- Protecting Your Personal Information On All Fronts: Recent Developments In Cross-Border Data Protection
- Ensuring Business Continuity: the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on T&T
April 2022
- Courting Legal Business Relations
- Guyana’s Local Content Policy: A cause for CARICOM concern?
February 2022
- Can we keep things on the side? A Review of
the Side Letter and its use in Commercial
Leases - Importing Pharmaceuticals into T&T:
The Regulatory Regime
December 2021
- COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace: A Second Jab
- Property Tax: What to Know
September 2021
- The Road To Debt Recovery: Enforcement of a Judgment Debt
- Workplace Health and Safety: The Laws All Employers Should Know
June 2021
- So You’ve Received A Pre-Action Protocol Letter – How To Manage the Litigation Process?
- NFTs: Beyond Cryptocurrency and Regulation
April 2021
- COVID-19 And The Tax Residency Implications Of Running A Business
- Contractual Notice Requirements: It’s In The Details…
March 2021
- COVID-19 Vaccines In The Workplace: CAN EMPLOYERS MAKE MANDATORY?
- Private Hire “PH” Taxis – Regularisation From An Insurance Law Perspective.
January 2021
- Working From Home After Covid-19: What Employers Need To Know?
- Debt Collection And The “New Normal”.
August 2020
- Covid-19 Restrictions and the Impact on Commercial Leases – A plight of frustration
- You Gotta Have (GOOD) Faith, Faith, Faith… Or Do You?
April 2020
- Can You Sue Over A Bad Review?
- Hush Yuh Mouth! A Primer On Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
January 2020
- Social Media And Litigation
- Blockchain-The Death Of A Middleman
- Hear That Tiger Roar – Protecting Brand Reputation
October 2019
- Ship Ahoy! Maritime Claims And What It Means To Arrest A Ship
- Bitcoin And Cryptocurrencies
- How Well Do You Know Your Pension Plan?
August 2019
- Director’s Duties
- Data Is Risky Business – Beware of Rogue Employee
- Testing the Boundaries – Discrimination and the Right to Refuse Service
June 2019
- Rise Of The Drones: Business Opportunities and
Risks - Can You Own A Meme? Memes And Intellectual
Property - What’s In A Name? Fenty v Fenty
April 2019
- What You Need To Understand-About Memorandums of Understanding
- A Company Medical-How Healthy Is Your Company?
November 2018
- The Secret of Confidential Information-A Snapshot of Confidentiality Issues that Can Affect Your Business
- The Essence of Time in Contracts for the Sale of Land
- Stop Holding Me Back! Exposure to Withholding Tax in Cross-Border Contracts
March 2018
- Made in T&T…A Brief Look at the Entrepreneurial Benefits of Geographical Indications
- The Long Awaited Insurance Reform Is On The Horizon
January 2018
- The Highs and Lows of Marijuana Legislation – What could it mean for business?
- Revisiting Cross Border Secured Financing Part II: The Security Financing Part II: The Security Package
September 2017
- Revisiting Cross Border Secured Financing
- Whose Employee Is It – Liability Under a “Labour Only” Contract
March 2017
- ‘Unequally Equal’ – Circumventing the Pari Passu Rule
- Navigating Uncharted Territory in Guava Season: Secured Creditors’ Rights on Insolvency
- Fair Competition Coming: The Fair Trading Act
October 2016
- Insolvency: Obligations and Liabilities of Directors – Part II
- A Client’s Guide to Civil Litigation Revisited: The Stages of Civil Litigation – Part II
July 2016
- Insolvency: Obligations and Liabilities of Directors
- A Client’s Guide to Civil Litigation Revisited: The Stages of Civil Litigation
March 2016
- Buyer Beware: A Brief Guide to Obtaining a Foreign Investor’s Licence
- The Private Labelling Trend
- Mediating the Civil Dispute in Trinidad & Tobago: “Theoretically Sound, Practically Useless?”
November 2015
- Too Much Information? The Risks of Using Social Media to Screen Recruits
- Brand Protection: Guarding Against Online Infringement
- Virtual Piracy: How to Protect Your Domain Name
August 2015
- When is a Shareholder a Shareholder, Or Not? The Importance of Side Notes in Statutory Interpretation
- “Not Broken, Just Bent” – Facilitating Financial Rehabilitation via the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
May 2015
- “Not Broken, Just Bent” – Facilitating Financial Rehabilitation via the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
- Proving Passing Off
November 2014
- Tackling Trademark Infringement
- The Securities (Amendment) Act, 2014: A Step Forward
- Of Critical Importance: The Role of the Corporate Secretary in Corporate Governance
- Employment Law Update: The Proposed Minimum Wages Order 2014
April 2014
- Stay Ahead of the Game: How to Manage the impact of the World Cup on your Workplace
- Passing the Baton: Nicole Ferreira-Aaron appointed Managing Partner of Hamel-Smith
- The Long(er) Arm of the Law – Stretching the Four Corners of a Written Act
- Not Your Employee? You May Still Be Liable for his Injury
- Penalty Clauses – When Are They Justified?
January 2014
- Is Your Company Up to Code? A Review of the New Corporate Governance Code
- A Face That (Could) Launch A Thousand Suits
- The U.K. Bribery Act: Across the Pond to Our Shores
- ‘Use It or Face Losing It’! Protecting Trademarks Through Use
October 2013
- Access to the Foreign Market – The Securities Act, 2012!
- Trinidad & Tobago 2014 Budget Measures
- Legal Advice Privilege – Reserved to Advice Given by Lawyers!
- Winning the Shell Game: How the Oppression Remedy Can Be Used to Recover Unpaid Judgments!
March 2013
- Issues and Investors Beware: The Securities Act 2012 is Here!
- Related Party Transactions and Transfer Pricing: A Brief Introduction – Part II
- Shades of Grey… Navigating the parallel import market!
December 2012
- Related Party Transactions and Transfer Pricing: A Brief Introduction
- Get Those Goods Moving out of T&T: The Ins and Outs of Regional Trade
November 2012
- Distribution Agreements: Written Agreements Talk and Oral Assertions Walk
- Our Right to Privacy: A Review of the Data Protection Act
June 2012
- Emerging Discrimination Claims Under the Equal Opportunity Act: What Employers Need to Know
- Taking a New Stab at Piercing ‘the Corporate Veil’.
- Electronic Transactions: Sign Here?
- The Value of Trademark Registration
March 2012
- Registering Your Slogan as a Trademark
- Cash is King – Are You Judgment Rich and Money Poor?
- Electronic Transactions: Forming the Electronic Contract
- Proposed Legislative Reforms to the Public Procurement Regime: A Review
October 2011
- Negligent Valuations… You Stand To Lose
- Forging Ahead with Electronic Transactions
- The Information Freeway: Is Your Company Exposed?
November 2010
- Endeavour Obligations: When doing your best is not the best you can do
- Court Annexexed Mediation Comes to Trinidad and Tobago
- Paying Again for Crime Not to Pay
June 2010
- Are You Lurking in the Shadows?
- Senatorial Appointment – Timothy Hamel-Smith
- Insider Trading
- Paying for Crime Not to Pay
November 2009
- Celebrating our Centenary
- Enduring for 100 Years and Beyond
- A Client’s Guide to Litigation
- Expert Determination: A Quick and Inexpensive Solution
January 2009
- To sell or not to sell: A receiver’s dilemma?
- Due diligence – Before you seal the deal?
- Cross-border transactions managing the risks
June 2008
- Using Exclusion Clauses to Limit you Business Ricks: How effective are they?
- Do Patients Have a Right to their Medical Records?
February 2008
- Be Careful What You Say: Representations and Non-Reliance Clauses
- Twice The Commission for One Sale? The Risk of Double Estate Agent Commission
August 2007
- The Trinidad & Tobago Investment Policy 2007-2012: Investors Paradise?
- Foreign Mutual Funds
- A Guide to the Water Pollution Rules
April 2007
- New Proposed Trade Mark Legislation in Trinidad & Tobago
- Raising Capital Through Trade Marks
- Consumer Protection and the Law
- Mala Fides and the Constitution: A Moot Point?
December 2006
- Consumer Protection and the Law
- Risks And Duties Of Arrangers
- The Environmental Management Authority and Natural Justice
September 2006
- Understanding Trinidad and Tobago’s New Maritime Boundaries
- Residential Developments: Questions Frequently Asked by Purchasers
May 2006
- Cross Border Financing: The Challenges of Withholding Tax
- Appellate Mooting Competition
- Pre-Action Protocols – Crisis or Opportunity?