Ian Paget-Brown’s full controversial address

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  • Establishing a system of legal education and practical training;
  • Ensuring that systems are in place for eligible persons to be afforded an opportunity to be admitted as articled clerks;
  • Regulating and upholding standards of professional conduct, discipline and etiquette within the legal profession;
  • deliberately being marginalised in the work place;
  • denied fair opportunities to advance;
  • have been instructed on occasions about how to vote at Caymanian
  • told that to be a ‘team player’ they must allow the “status quo” to continue uninterrupted;
  • used as pawns to secure status grants and permanent residence and once the Caymanian has outlived his or her usefulness in securing these grants they are unfairly or constructively dismissed;
  • filing misleading affidavits; qualifications; residence; experience; character with the Court;
  • misleading the Trade & Business Board as to Caymanian participation and efforts to secure it;
  • failing to report Caymanian applicants;
  • misleading the authorities as to the nature of experience and qualifications as to both expatriate and local applicants;
  • publishing misleading advertisements so as to seek to avoid attracting qualified local applicants;
  • giving misleading description of the positions held by Caymanians and Expatriates for regulatory advantage;
  • concealing remuneration for regulatory advantage;
  • failing to make applications for promotion/re-designation and disingenuous about the nature and extent of training;
  • taking on articled clerks but then not offering employment opportunities; and
  • in house training programs that are not offered to Caymanian

Published January 22, 2013

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