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  Kelvin  Hastings-Smith FCIArb

 
Counsel

Litigation & Insolvency

E. Kelvin Hastings-Smith is Counsel and Manager of the Litigation Practice Group. His practice includes all aspects of commercial litigation with an emphasis on  fraud, asset tracing and anti-money laundering issues.  Kelvin is a member of the firm’s Employment and Immigration Team and is active in Employment and Immigration Compliance issues and all matters involving employer and employee relations.  Examples of recent clients and cases include, anton piller and mareva injunctions, jurisdiction challenges, Ecommerce litigation (including Bermuda’s first internet defamation action) wrongful and unfair dismissal and Human Rights issues.  

Kelvin joined the group in 1993. Prior to that he was a partner and Head of Commercial Litigation at a London firm of solicitors.

Kelvin obtained his LLM in Advanced Litigation from Nottingham Trent University, England and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 1990 (now non-practising). He was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1994.

Kelvin was a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives since 1976.  He became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1995.  He is an executive member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Bermuda and regularly speaks at conferences on ADR, fraud, anti-money laundering issues and Employment law.

Kelvin is also a frequent author and presenter on these issues on which he also advises companies wishing to locate in Bermuda.  In 1999 Kelvin became a CEDR accredited mediator.  He has mediated a range of disputes including commercial, family and  trust disputes and is often instructed to sit as arbitrator in such disputes.




Phone +1 441 298 3220
Fax +1 441 298 3454
khastings@applebyglobal.com

Bermuda
Canon's Court
22 Victoria Street
PO Box HM 1179
Hamilton HM EX
Bermuda

Team / Area of Practice
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Employment & Immigration
Property & Construction Litigation
Fraud Litigation
Arbitration & Mediation

Education
Nottingham Trent University (England)

Admissions
Bermuda, 1994
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (non-practising), 1990

Publications
9 Aug 2010 
Redundancy is one option for troubled employers by Kelvin Hastings-Smith
28 Sep 2009 
Communication can help to avoide workplace issues by Kelvin Hastings-Smith

Events
20 Jun 2007 
Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery Conference
26 Apr 2007 
The Employment Tribunal
27 Sep 2006 
Tracing and Recovering Assets