Daily Archives: July 8, 2022

Cayman Islands: The Recoverability of Foreign Lawyers’ Fees

Cayman Islands: The Recoverability of Foreign Lawyers’ Fees 7 July 2022 By Fleur O’Driscoll Forbes Hare   Introduction The recoverability of foreign lawyers’ fees is an issue which has frequently been considered by the British Virgin Islands Courts in recent years.  This has resulted in a significant body of case law on the topic.[1] This…

British Virgin Islands: The Recoverability of Foreign Lawyers’ Fees

British Virgin Islands: The Recoverability of Foreign Lawyers’ Fees 7 July 2022 By Richard Baird Forbes Hare   When the Legal Practitioners Act, 2015 (the “LPA”) came into force in the British Virgin Islands (the “BVI”), it rewrote the rules governing the legal costs that parties to BVI court proceedings can recover from their opponents.…