Satcha Kissoon

Background

About Satcha Kissoon

Satcha is Dentons' Regional Head of Litigation for the Caribbean, based in Barbados. Satcha is admitted to practice as an Attorney-at-Law in Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Vincent and St Kitts & Nevis. In January of 2019, Satcha was invited to join Dentons in the capacity of Regional Head of Litigation for the Caribbean. Dentons is the largest Law Firm in the world. Satcha argues frequently before all levels of Courts in Barbados in all areas of the law including Family, Contentious Probate, Commercial and Criminal.He has regularly appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which replaced the Privy Council for Barbados. Notably, he argued the first Employment Law matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice from the Court of Appeal of Barbados in 2013 where he successfully urged the CCJ to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeal of Barbados on behalf of Sandy Lane Hotel. He also appeared as lead counsel in the historic CCJ case of Clarence Sealy v R in 2016 where the CCJ endorsed and laid down principles on which a trial judge is required to direct a jury. He again successfully urged the Caribbean Court of Justice to set aside the Barbados Court of Appeal in 2018 in a landmark decision, and again for Sandy Lane Hotel, which decision has changed the procedure of appeals to the Court of Appeal. Satcha sat as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association for 6 years. He also tutored at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies.