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Creating a Comprehensive Will, Securing Your Legacy
When it comes to estate planning, a well-drafted Will is a vital document. A comprehensive Will not only protects your assets but also provides peace of mind for your loved ones—ensuring your wishes are honored and your family is spared unnecessary emotional and financial burdens as well as conflict. A Will should do more than […]
Corporate Governance in Jamaica: JSE-Listed Companies
Being listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (“JSE”) is not just about gaining wider access to capital. Listing comes with stricter regulatory obligations and a heightened demand for transparency. Directors and management must therefore become champions of corporate governance, ensuring that investors, regulators, and the wider business community can trust the company’s operations. This article […]
Estate Planning & Tax: Maximising Wealth Transfer Strategies
Estate planning is essential for succession and wealth management, involving the determination of how one’s assets are to be preserved and distributed after death. It facilitates efficient asset transfer, protects legacies and helps intended beneficiaries receive their gifts. Proper estate planning can also minimise disputes and potential tax obligations. Several estate planning tools are available, […]
Have I been Defamed? Successfully bringing a Claim for Defamation
Traditionally, defamatory comments were made in the newspaper, over the radio or on television. Therefore, the defamers were usually known or ascertainable by those who were defamed. It also meant that media houses had greater control over the content and could quickly stop, correct or apologise for any comments capable of being defamatory. However, with […]
SEZ Incentives
What’s Special about the Jamaica Special Economic Zone? A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a designated geographic area within Jamaica where businesses operate under a special regulatory and tax framework. These zones are intended to promote investment, boost exports, create jobs, and position Jamaica as a logistics and investment hub, capitalizing on opportunities posed by […]
Contract Work or Contract Trap?
Some employers strongly rely on short-term employment contracts, arrangements that many argue have quietly eroded the rights of thousands of Jamaican workers. Has the time come for change? Fixed-term contracts have increasingly been used not only for flexibility, but for control, stripping employees of job security and benefits. As calls grow louder for legislative reform, […]
Occupiers’ Liability
Accidents happen all the time. They happen in the most unexpected and unpredictable ways and form an inescapable part of the chaotic enterprise that is human existence. Despite the ubiquitousness of petty misfortune, we as a people have persisted. We have found that as unpredictable as accidents are, many of the risks which give […]
Hiding behind ‘allegedly’
As social media continue to dominate as the platforms on which people express themselves, and with artificial intelligence (AI) making it easier to generate and spread potentially defamatory content, attorney-at-law Stephanie Ewbank is urging the public to exercise caution. Ewbank, who is also a partner at the law firm Myers, Fletcher and Gordon, warned that […]
Warning to Politicians
With the political scene heating up, attorney-at-law Stephanie Ewbank says citizens, especially politicians, need to remember there is a thin line between robust political debates and statements that could be considered defamatory. Over the past few months Jamaica’s political landscape has been charged with tension as representatives from the two main political parties — the […]
Access Granted: Common Types of Grants of Representation
Losing a loved one is difficult, and when this happens, often the next questions asked by family members and close friends are “Am I to do something?” or “What am I to do next?” The next step should involve making an application to the Court, usually the Supreme Court, for a Grant of Representation in […]
