NEW PRESIDENT CURACAO BAR ASSOCIATION
Meeting held on 12 December 2008
At the Curacao Bar Association’s annual meeting, Karel Frielink (Spigthoff) was formally elected to serve as President of the Curacao Bar Association for a two year-term. He is the successor of Eric de Vries (HBN Law).
Eric Bokkes (Bokkes Fontein Advocaten), Daniel Zahavi (ZL Law) and Chester Peterson (Sulvaran & Peterson) have been re-elected as board member of the Curacao Bar Association: Peterson as Vice-President, Bokkes as Treasurer and Zahavi as Secretary.
Frielink started practicing as an attorney in 1989 in Amsterdam, but moved to Curacao in 1997. He is a partner with Spigthoff Attorneys & Tax Advisers. Recently, he has been elected as member of the Board of Directors of the Curacao Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Board of Supervisory Directors of the Curacao Citizens Rescue Organization (Citro) and a lecturer at the University of the Netherlands Antilles on corporate law.
The Curacao Bar Association is a voluntary professional membership organization. As the national voice of the legal profession, the CBA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers in their work, and works to build public understanding of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.
Karel Frielink
See also: Curacao Legal Portal, Mr-Online, Rechtennieuws.nl and (in Papiamentu:) Extra and La Prensa.
