Delroy Duncan KC

Year of Silk/Call: 2020/1984

CALL 020 7827 4000

EXPERTISE

  • Arbitration and Mediation

  • Commercial Law

  • International Law

  • Delroy Duncan was called to the English and Welsh Bar in 1984. He was a pupil annd tenant at Cloisters where he is now an associate member.

    Delroy was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1989 and is a founding partner and director of the law firm, Trott & Duncan.

    In recent years Delroy has been extensively involved in litigation arising out of company and commercial disputes, constitutional and human rights issues.

    His work in the field of commercial and company law has included giving advice to clients throughout the Caribbean, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Far East.

    Delroy has given advice on constitutional and judicial review cases both for and against the Bermuda Government as well as governments in the Caribbean including BVI, Turks and Caicos Islands and Antigua. He has acted for the Human Rights Commission of Bermuda in various cases.

    As a qualified arbitrator, Delroy has appeared in a number of arbitrations in Bermuda. He is certified as a trained mediator by the Notre Dame Law School (Indiana, USA) and is a certified Human Rights mediator. In 2013 he became certified as a Social Justice mediator by the Social Justice Mediation Institute. Delroy has been appointed as a mediator and appeared in mediations in Bermuda.

    Delroy was appointed as a part-time Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of Bermuda in January 2016.

  • Past President of the Bermuda Bar Association

    Member of the Honourable Society of Grays Inn

    Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

    Associate member of Cloisters Chambers in the Temple, London, England

    • Getting the Deal Through: Contributor of the Bermuda Chapter on The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2015 Edition.

    • Bermuda Commercial Litigation: Contributor of the Bermuda Chapter on The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments 2012.

    • Commercial Imperative in Bermuda Principles: Insurance Day article 13 October 2011.

    • A Place in the Sun: When a house is not a home -Trust or sham? Explains the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act of 1956. Reproduced from “in brief” April 2004.

    • Public Wrong, Private Remedy: Comments on the arbitration process in the EMLICO case. Reproduced from “in brief” April 2002.

    • Bermuda: 400 Years of Commerce: Resolving Commercial Disputes with Kyle Masters.

    • Workers Voice Bermuda: Contributor of monthly articles highlighting topical issues in industrial relations and employment law.

    • Powdrill and Atkinson v Watson [1995]; IRLR 269 HL

    • Wilson v Associated Newspapers [1995] IRLR 258 HL

    • Meade and Baxendale v British Fuels Ltd [1998] IRLR 706, HL

    • Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 651, HL

    • Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission [2006] IRLR 195, HL

    • Jackson v Computershare Investor Services plc [2008] IRLR 70, CA.

    • Hewage v Grampian Health Board [2012] IRLR 870, SC

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