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Attorney General of the Cayman Islands

Honourable Samuel W. Bulgin QC, JP
LL.B. (Hons) CLE

Place of Birth: Jamaica; Naturalized British Citizen (Caymanian Status);

• Assistant Clerk II and Deputy Clerk of Courts, Resident Magistrate’s Courts, Jamaica, 1978 – 1980;
• Clerk of Courts, Resident Magistrate’s Court, Jamaica, 1981 – 1984; LLB Hons. (U.W.I.), 1987;
• Admitted to the Bar, 1989;
• Crown Counsel/Asst Director of Public Prosecution, Jamaica, 1989– 1992;
• Crown Counsel and Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, Jamaica 1977 – 1983;
• Part-time Lecturer/Tutor, University of West Indies 1989 – 1992;
• Crown Counsel, Attorney Generals Chambers, Cayman Islands, 1992 – 1996;
• Senior Crown Counsel, Attorney Generals Chambers, Cayman Islands, 1996 – 1997;
• Solicitor General, Attorney Generals, Chambers, Cayman Islands, 1997 – 2003;
• Appointed Attorney General of the Cayman Islands, since 2003;
• Appointed Queens Counsel, 2004;

• Awards -
  • The University of the West Indies – Chancellors Prize for Law of Human Rights;
  • Norman Law School – The H.H. Dunn Memorial Prize (for best Performance in Legal Drafting and Interpretation);
  • The Sir Colin MacGregor Memorial Prize
• Publications -
  • Passive inhalation of cannabis smoke: a novel defence strategy; A. Busuttil, J.O. Obafunwa, S. Bulgin – Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine (1996) 3, 99-104
  • Medico-legal considerations of deaths from watersports among Caribbean tourist; J.O. Obafunwa, S. Bulgin A. Busuttil – Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine (1997) 4, 65-71