Julianne E. Mais Cox

Partner

Julianne Mais Cox specializes in Civil Litigation with experience spanning the spectrum of civil matters, specializing primarily in commercial Litigation, including banking and finance, insolvency and real estate, also dealing with matters concerning defamation, personal injury, intellectual property litigation pensions, trusts and administrative law.

Julianne advises and prepares opinions for major Jamaican financial and manufacturing institutions, media houses, insurers, statutory bodies and hoteliers.

She has appeared both as Counsel and as Instructing Attorney instructing Queen’s Counsel in complex litigation matters before the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica and the Court of Appeal of Jamaica. She has also instructed English Barristers and Solicitors with respect to matters on appeal from the Court of Appeal (Jamaica) to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, including drafting submissions to the Privy Council.

Julianne also appears in matters before Statutory Appeals Tribunals on appeals from decisions of public bodies. She has appeared in various arbitration proceedings as well as in appeals to the Supreme Court from arbitration awards; she has experience in conducting complex fraud litigation involving international organizations, appeared before the Supreme Court in Election Petition matters and has appeared in various Court-ordered Mediations.

A member of the firm’s Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Department and practices in the area of civil litigation, Julianne was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1998 and has been a Partner since 2004.

Julianne is a member of the Advertising Regulatory Committee of the General Legal Council. She is a former Commissioner of the Early Childhood Commission and a former member of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Justice Reform Committee.