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A former Associate in the litigation and insolvency department of the Bermuda-based international law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman and a former Senior Associate in the litigation and insolvency department of the Bermuda-based law firm Lynda Milligan-Whyte & Associates, Paul Harshaw now brings his acquired knowledge and resources to his own firm.

Following a successful 15 year career in electrical engineering in Canada and Bermuda, Paul Harshaw retired from that field and went to England to retrain as a barrister. He finished his studies at the University of Buckingham in June 1995, leaving with an LLB (Hons), having achieved Second Class (Upper Division) Honours.

Through 1995 and 1996, Paul Harshaw underwent training at the Bar Vocational Course of the Inns of Court School of Law in London (then the only route to being called to the Bar of England and Wales). He was admitted to the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1995 and called to the Bar of England and Wales by that Inn in 1997.

Paul Harshaw was called to the Bar of Bermuda in 1998, following his return home to Bermuda.

In addition to advocacy and advice, Paul Harshaw is frequently appointed to chair Boards of Inquiry under Bermuda’s Human Rights Act and he writes and lectures on Bermuda’s Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering legislation, with a particular focus on the tension between that legislation and the Constitutionally protected right of Legal Professional Privilege in Bermuda. R v. Hoskins [2003] Bda LR 25 is currently the only reported decision in Bermuda on the powers conferred by the Proceeds of Crime Act 1997 to obtain information from a third party (law firm) by way of Production Order.