Senior Counsel, Founding Partner

Elliott D. Mottley’s professional experience spans more than 40 years. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales and admitted to practice at the Barbados Bar in 1961.

In 1967 he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the West Indies Associated States, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica, the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Montserrat and Anguilla. More recently, in 2001 he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago.

As a Member of Parliament, he represented the constituency of the City of Bridgetown for the Barbados Labour Party from 1969 to 1976. In 1976, he served as Consul General – Principal Representative of the Government of Barbados in New York, USA.

In 1980, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel. Since then Elliott Mottley has had a distinguished career in private practice, representing his government and other regional governments in a wide range of important and ground breaking legal issues. During the period 1995 to 1998, he served as Her Majesty’s Attorney General for the Island of Bermuda, acting as Deputy Governor of Bermuda on several occasions. In 1999, he was appointed non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal in Belize and in 2001 he was appointed non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal, Turks and Caicos Islands. In 2002, he attended an Executive Symposium for the Judiciary on Intellectual Property Law sponsored by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He acted as a Justice of Appeal on the Court of Appeal in Barbados.

He represented the government of Bermuda in two civil appeals before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

He also at different times appeared in Court representing the Governments of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat and Dominica.

He has been the President of the Organisation of the Caribbean Bar Association, and has also served as President and Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association.

For six years, he served as a member of the Council of Legal Education, the governing body of the Bar School of the West Indies.

More recently, he was the sole investigator appointed by the West Indies Cricket Board to investigate allegations of match-fixing made against Brian Lara.

His principal areas of practice include Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, International Commercial Fraud, Employment and Labour Law, Consumer Protection, Election Law, Constitution Law and Administrative Law and Judicial Review.