Legal Notices

We are a Bahamas based partnership trading as ParrisWhittaker in the Bahamas.

Firm Personnel

The Partner identified in the your engagement letter will be primarily responsible for the carrying out and/ or supervision of your matter with the assistance of other fee earners and consultants, if necessary, in order to ensure instructions are carried out effectively and to reduce the costs of legal services rendered.

The preferred method of communication of the Firm is through email.

We use professional titles to designate the seniority and the role of our colleagues. Those we call ‘Partners’ are solicitors, barristers, attorneys and other legal professionals with at least five years standing as such. The title ‘Partner’ is a professional title only. Our Partners are not partners in the legal sense.They are not liable for the debts, liabilities or obligations, nor are they involved in the management of any entity in our international network.

We may engage barristers, solicitors, attorneys and other third parties and otherwise incur on your behalf reasonable expenses of a type which it is necessary or desirable to perform the contract/engagement we have entered into with you in order to provide the Services in question. If we so require, you will contract directly with any third party so engaged by us and assume direct responsibility to them for the payment of their fees and expenses. We may ask other companies, LLPs, firms or individuals (“Outsourced Providers”) to perform work on matters to assist us to meet your objectives. We will use reasonable endeavours to instruct any Outsourced Providers in a manner which will subject them to confidentiality obligations. If we are responsible for the selection and engagement of an Outsourced Provider, we will exercise reasonable care in making the selection. Outsourced Providers will be engaged by us as your agent, and you will be responsible for their charges in addition to our own. We shall not be held responsible for any act or omission of an Outsourced Provider.

ParrisWhittaker is the trading name used by a number of law firms providing professional services to clients around the world (each a “PW Firm”), and by other related entities. Each PW Firm is a distinct legal entity or partnership, separately constituted and regulated, which provides legal and other professional services in accordance with the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates.  The PW Firms are regulated by the relevant professional bodies in the jurisdictions where they are established and have offices. In addition, our lawyers are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Turks & Caicos

We practice in Turks & Caicos through a strategic partnership with Geordins Law Firm. They are a firm registered with and regulated by the Bar Association of Turks and Caicos. Any Turks & Caicos law advice is provided by Turks & Caicos attorneys.

Amsterdam/ The Netherlands

We do not practice Dutch Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Cyprus

We do not practice Cyprus Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Cayman Islands

We do not practice Cayman Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Jamaica

We do not practice Jamaican Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Dominica

We do not practice Dominican Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

Barbados

We do not practice Barbados Law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

British Virgin Islands

We do not practice British Virgin Islands law. Where necessary, we work closely with local lawyers who are regulated by the relevant professional body in their place of admission.

The responsibility for the provision of services to a client is defined in terms of engagement entered into between the relevant PW Firm and the client. The PW Firms are not in a partnership with each other, and no PW Firm is liable for the acts or omissions of another. No PW Firm is the agent or principal of (or otherwise has the authority or power to obligate or bind) any other PW Firm. References to “ParrisWhittaker” or to an “international legal practice”, “firm”, or “law firm” may, where applicable, be to one or more of the PW Firms.