Attorney Justin Phelps received his instrument of appointment to the rank of Senior Counsel, at a presentation ceremony at The President’s House, today.
Phelps was reportedly unavailable for yesterday's ceremony where 13 attorneys received their silk.
Phelps SC was called to the Bar of England and Wales in October 1995 and admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago one year later. He has also been admitted in St. Kitts and Nevis, in Guyana and in Antigua and Barbuda.
His bio states he ran a commercial practice covering advocacy and advisory work across a broad range of commercial areas. He has extensive experience in specialist commercial disciplines including arbitration, commercial fraud, insolvency and company law. He is regularly instructed by a broad field of corporate and individual clients in both the private and the public sectors in all aspects of business litigation including in many high-value commercial and corporate cases, building and construction disputes, banking disputes, insolvency, commercial fraud and defamation.
Phelps was found guilty in 2018 of assault. Attorneys interviewed yesterday declined to comment on whether it should preclude him from receiving silk.