From early April 2024 Yuri was elevated to the Bench of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Circuit. He therefore no longer works on firm matters. If you have queries regarding any of this former matters, you should contact Tim Prudhoe on tim@spcaribbean.com.
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Yuri is from St Vincent and the Grenadines and is an experienced court advocate.
His work focus was civil and corporate-commercial litigation in Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions both as Counsel and Junior Counsel.
He has appeared before High Courts and Courts of Appeal in the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands and other Caribbean countries.
He has also appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as Junior Counsel.
Yuri appeared – often with Tim Prudhoe – on many complex and ground-breaking cases across the Region.
St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada, Philosophy BA
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, LLB
Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago, LEC
OECS Bar Association
Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago
OCCBA
INSOL Fellow
Recent writing engagements:
April 2023 – INSOL, Technical Paper Series No. 57: “Modified Universalism and its Parallel in the South African Common Law”
TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS – judicial review successes in Islander status context
BELIZE – constitutional challenge to extradition request from Mexico (16.06.24)