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Chizelle Cargill

Chizelle Cargill

Lennox Paton, Bahamas

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Chizelle is a Senior Associate in the firm's Litigation Group.

Her practice focuses on commercial and general litigation claims, including contracts, banking, insolvency, fraud, personal injury, professional negligence, employment and family law.

Chizelle has appeared as junior counsel in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in The Bahamas.

Position

Chizelle is a Partner in the Litigation Group. Her practice focuses on commercial and general litigation claims, including contracts, banking, insolvency, fraud, personal injury, professional negligence, employment and family law.

Chizelle has appeared as junior counsel in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in The Bahamas. She has also appeared as junior counsel before the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty’s Privy Council in the decision of Junkanoo Estates Bahamas Ltd et al v UBS (Bahamas) Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation [2017] UKPC 8. In this landmark case, Chizelle helped to obtain a ruling that clarified the long-standing confusion over the concurrent jurisdictions between the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, when applying for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal in The Bahamas.

Education

Associate of Arts Degree (with Hons.) in Economics - The College of The Bahamas; Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - University of the West Indies (2010); Bar Training Course - Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas (2012).

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