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Portrait of Juliana M. Snelling,

Juliana M. Snelling, Partner

Areas of Practice

Juliana Snelling (nee Horseman) is a partner in the firm's litigation practice group and advises primarily in the fields of employment, labour and immigration law. She also practises in most areas of civil litigation including human rights, contract and tort disputes, property disputes, defamation cases, planning applications and appeals, insurance claim disputes, judicial review actions, professional negligence claims, personal injury matters, landlord tenant matters and debt actions.

Work for Clients

Ms. Snelling's principal work involves advising senior level business executives as well as local and exempted companies and major institutions on the terms of contracts of employment and severance agreements. She represents both employers and employees as well as trade unions and job recruitment agencies. Ms. Snelling is the firm's contact representative of the Employment Law Alliance. In addition to her employment work, Ms. Snelling advises individuals and businesses in most areas of civil litigation and appears in all Courts including appearing twice as Junior Counsel in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, Bermuda's highest Court.

Professional Experience

Ms. Snelling has over 13 years of experience at the Bermuda Bar. Representative cases with interest include:

  • Court of Appeal

    • Bermuda Industrial Union v BAS-Serco Limited (decertification of bargaining unit of union)
    • Burgess and others v Stevedoring Services Limited (labour relations)
    • Phillips v Phillips (application for leave to appeal)
    • Stephenson (trading as Stephenson Construction) v Russell (employer's liability)
    • Dill v Stowe (property dispute / adverse possession)
    • Darrell v Peets-Swan (property dispute / constructive trusts)

  • Supreme Court

    • Edward G. Robinson and Somers Isles Shipping Ltd. (bills of lading/contract-incorporation of express terms)
    • Darrell v Peets-Swan (property and constructive trust dispute)
    • Bermuda Cablevision Limited and Colica Trust Company Limited (unfair prejudice)
    • Swan v Onions Bouchard & McCulloch (wrongful dismissal)
    • Omninet International Ltd v McMillan and others (jurisdiction)
    • Lines Overseas Management Ltd v Green (constructive dismissal, custom and usage, stay of execution)
    • BAS Serco Limited v The Bermuda Industrial Union (labour relations)
    • Lomas v Trott (application of child maintenance funds)
    • John Coxwell v Leslie Millen (personal injury involving cognitive deficits)
    • Rampersand & Rampersand v Edwards & Simmons (property dispute / partition action)
    • Prosecutorial actions against members of the Bermuda Bar for professional misconduct

Professional Activities

Ms. Snelling is a member of the England and Wales and Bermuda Bar Associations. She is also a qualified solicitor in England and Wales as well as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She currently serves as a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bermuda Bar Association, a Board member of the Warwick Academy Alumni Association and is President of the Bermuda branch of Stanford University Alumni.

Bar and Court Admissions

Ms. Snelling is admitted to the Bars of England and Wales (1994) and Bermuda (1995). She is a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Education

  • Graduate, Inns of Court School of Law (Outstanding Designation), (London, England) 1994
  • B.A. (Jurisprudence), St. John's College, Oxford University (First Degree), (Oxford, England) 1993
  • U.C.L.A. School of Law, (Los Angeles, California) 1991
  • B.A. (History), Stanford University, (Palo Alto, California) 1989
  • L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), 1987

Publications/Presentations

Honours and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Stanford University
  • Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University (1990 - 1993)