Dwayne Fernander is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group.

Dwayne’s practice focuses primarily on admiralty & shipping, arbitration, construction, contentious real estate (including title/tax/landlord & tenant), fraud and white-collar crime, contentious insurance and personal injury and employment and labour matters including trade union issues and public law/judicial review matters.

Recent engagements include:

• Lead counsel in the settlement of fatal accident claim in excess of $300,000.
• Lead counsel in a Supreme Court matter involving two major companies in personal injury lawsuits against plaintiffs claiming damages in each instance well in excess of six figures.
• Assisting lead GT counsel in successfully defending against a multi-million dollar claim in the Supreme Court arising out of alleged defective construction of a water theme feature at a major resort in the Bahamas.
• Assisting lead GT counsel in successfully representing a client on an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in which the client claimed that its copyrights had been infringed.
• Lead counsel in a major arbitration in which claimant’s claim for damages in excess of $3 million dollars was significantly reduced to mid six figures.
• Assisting lead GT counsel in the defense of a major construction company in arbitration where the claimant asserted a multi-million dollar claim for damages arising from defective construction of his home. Damages were claimed in excess of $20 million dollars. The Defendant client was successful in its countersuit.
• Assisting lead GT counsel in successfully arbitrating a construction dispute involving issues of dishonesty and fraud, and breach of contract in which millions were recovered on behalf of the claimant.
• Representing a major resort against a multi-million dollar suit filed by former employees.
• Assisting lead GT counsel in successfully representing a major industrial shipping magnate in the Supreme Court in a multi-million dollar claim commenced by 114 employees for overtime pay.

Bar Admissions

• Bar of England and Wales, 2007
• The Bahamas Bar, 2007

Education
College of Law, United Kingdom
University of Buckingham (LL.B), United Kingdom

• The Honorable Society of Gray's Inn
• Bahamas Bar Association

The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn

The Bahamas Bar Association

• Employment Update on the Government's Stimulus Measures in Response to COVID-19

  By Dwayne Fernander |April 2020

• COVID-19: Potential Employment Related Issues

  By Dwayne Fernander |March 2020