Asif A. Hosein-Shah
PartnerN.D Alfonso & Co
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N.D. Alfonso & Co. is a full-service law firm with over thirty (30) years’ experience in contentious and non-contentious maritime and commercial matters. The firm is primarily based in Trinidad and Tobago with satellite operations in Guyana offering a comprehensive range of legal services to our local, regional and international clientele.
Our firm has extensive experience in admiralty / maritime law in the areas of the judicial arrest and sale of vessels, maritime claims including breach of contract/ charterparty, collisions, cargo, insurance, tug and tow, salvage, piracy and arbitration. Our non-contentious maritime portfolio includes the drafting of contracts and charterparties, contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, ship sales and purchases as well as port management and operations. The firm has also represented and rendered advice to the Damen Shipyards Group, foreign ship owners/operators, including in the oil and gas sector, international insurance underwriters, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, including the Maritime Services Division and Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, as well as the Shipping Association of Trinidad and Tobago.
We have also worked on behalf of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) since 1993 in collaboration with its local affiliate union in Trinidad and Tobago, Seamen & Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union (SWWTU) and have been instrumental in crew claims, repatriation (including immigration issues) and the recovery of wages of hundreds of foreign and regional seafarers. Our firm has served the interests of particularly at-risk seafarers who have been abandoned by shipowners or other interests or subjected to detention by State authorities.
In the area of commercial and corporate law, our firm has extensive experience in commercial negotiations, commercial, corporate and contract law, insurance law, labour and industrial law, wrongful dismissal, severance and redundancy issues, employment contract negotiations, personal injuries claims and assessment of damages.
Our Public Law portfolio includes constitutional law claims and judicial review where issues of breaches of fundamental rights, non-discrimination and equality form our core values and are reflected in the manner we approach these claims. Our consultants also provide legal services in the areas of criminal and immigration law to local and foreign nationals.
N.D. Alfonso & Co. provides representation in complex litigation matters throughout the Caribbean and through our team of corresponding Counsel, which includes external Senior and Senior Junior Counsel of considerable experience and repute and through our robust network of industry professionals.
显示更多 +Mr. Asif Hosein-Shah is an Attorney-at-Law who practices all areas of civil law focused mainly in the areas of admiralty / maritime law, corporate / commercial law and constitutional / public law and human rights law. He has been admitted to practice law in Trinidad and Tobago (2016) and Guyana (2016). In 2019, Asif was appointed as a Constitutional Law Tutor at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
He has been in active litigation practice since 2016 and has worked on various complex admiralty / maritime, commercial, civil, constitutional, employment / labour and family matters before the Court of Appeal, High Court, Industrial Court and Family Court of Trinidad and Tobago and the High Court of Guyana. In 2022 and 2023, Asif appeared as Counsel at the Commission of Enquiry into an offshore incident at Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited involving five (5) divers, four (4) of whom tragically lost their lives.
Asif holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B) with first class honours from the University of the West Indies (2014), a Legal Education Certificate (LEC), graduating on the Principal’s Roll of Honour, from the Council of Legal Education, the Hugh Wooding Law School (2016) and a Certificate of Qualification (CQ) from the National Committee of Accreditation, Federation of Law Societies of Canada (2019). Asif was also awarded a Mediation Training Certificate at the Hugh Wooding Law School and won the Book Specialist’s Prize (Best Overall Performance: Academic and Extra-curricular), the Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh Prize (Best Performance in the Human Rights Specialist Law Clinic) and the Fitzwilliam Stone, Furness-Smith and Morgan Prize (Best Performance in Civil Law, Procedure and Practice). He has also served as President of the Law Society of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, and numerous positions on the University of the West Indies Inter-Campus Guild of Students and St. Augustine Campus Guild Council.
Asif has been involved in youth advocacy programs and several outreach programs in aid of helping the less fortunate and disabled persons. Asif is particularly proud of his time as a delegate and Trainer at the Model United Nations (2012-2019) where his primary focus was inspiring interest in youth advocacy and international human rights among hundreds of secondary and university students throughout several Caribbean territories.
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c/o Keoma D. Griffith 225 South Street Lacytown, Georgetown Guyana.
Maritime Law in Trinidad and Tobago
Suite 5 Chancery Courtyard 13-15 St. Vincent Street Port of Spain Trinidad, West Indies.
N.D Alfonso & Co