Hon. Patrice D. Nisbett

LLB (Hons) (UWI), LEC, JP, Notary Public
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“Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory”
Gen. George S. Patton

Mr. Patrice Nisbett is an accomplished legal practitioner, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, with more than two decades of well-rounded legal experience in which he has specialized in commercial and corporate, criminal, conveyancing and real property, family and matrimonial, public and constitutional, citizenship and immigration law.

He has provided advice and rendered legal opinions to various clients on personal injury matters, high end property development, probate, wills and estate planning and debt collection. Mr. Nisbett also has an in depth understanding of, and has successfully navigated, the formation of corporate entities and intellectual property rights matters.

Mr. Nisbett is an adept litigator practicing before the High Court and the Court of Appeal and has been involved in many landmark, ground-breaking decisions.

Patrice Nisbett has served as the Principal Legal Advisor to the Government of St. Christopher and Nevis in the capacity of Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2013. He later was appointed as the Federation’s Chief Diplomat in the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Labour, Justice and Legal Affairs.

In his capacity as Attorney General, he either piloted or supervised the passage of a plethora of visionary legislation which led to the reform of various aspects of the legislative framework in St. Christopher and Nevis including:

• Value Added Tax (VAT);
• The Evidence Act;
• The Public Service Act;
• Criminal Records Rehabilitation of Offenders Act;
• Bankruptcy Act;
• Integrity in Public Life Act;
• Geothermal Ordinance
• The St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla National Bank Ltd. (Vesting of Certain Lands Act);
• and critical amendments to the Pensions Act and the Protection of Employment Act.

As a former member of the Federal Cabinet of St. Christopher and Nevis he employed his legal skills in the successful negotiation of complex commercial contracts in respect of major private, resort and national infrastructural development projects and the supply of renewable energy, specifically, wind and geothermal.

Patrice Nisbett continues public service as an elected member of the National Assembly of St. Christopher and Nevis.

He was the Legal Advisor to the Nevis Island Administration from 2006 – 2010.

Mr. Nisbett is admitted to practise in St. Christopher and Nevis, the British Virgin Islands and St. Lucia.

He is an alumnus of the University of the West Indies, Cavehill Campus Law Faculty where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law in 1993. Mr. Nisbett went on to the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago where he earned his Legal Education Certificate (LEC) in 1995.