M. Georgia Gibson Henlin KC

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation, Technology, Data Privacy and Complex legal issues.

Career

Managing Partner, Henlin Gibson Henlin,

Head of Litigation Head of Litigation, Hunte & Co

Managing Director, Privacy & Legal Management Consultants Limited

Publications

M. Georgia Gibson Henlin “VoIP: A Regulatory Conundrum Under the Telecommunications Act 2000” Published in the Caribbean Law Bulletin Volume 8 No. 2 – November 2003 at page 20

M. Georgia Gibson Henlin, “Internet Protocol Telephony – The Demise of Traditional Regulatory Paradigms? Implications for Caribbean Countries.” Volume 7 Number 1 – April 2002 at page 73.

M. Georgia Gibson Henlin & Suzanne Risden-Foster “Flight or Right: Issues relating to Custody and Access to Children in Jamaica” published in the West Indian Law Journal Volume

Personal

M. Georgia Gibson Henlin is a King’s Counsel at the Jamaican bar. She is also called to the bar in Ontario, Canada and New York, in the United States of America, St. Lucia and in the British Virgin Islands. Georgia is the Managing Partner in the law firm of Henlin Gibson Henlin, Kingston, Jamaica. She is a 2023 National Honouree in Jamaica where she was conferred with the Order of Distinction in the class of Commander.

Called to the Jamaican Bar in 1993, Georgia has practised in all the courts in Jamaica with her current focus being: Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. M. Georgia Gibson Henlin’s practice focuses on Information Technology, Telecommunications, Competition Law, Commercial and complex legal issues. She has wide ranging experience in other areas of the law including Intellectual Property, Family, Estate Planning, Real Estate, Commercial, Finance and Taxation. Georgia is the Chief Governance Risk and Compliance Specialist at Privacy & Legal Management Consultants Limited (PLMC). At PLMC Georgia specializes in Data Protection, Corporate Governance and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance.

In 2002 she was awarded a Master of Laws Degree in Innovation Law and Policy from the University of Toronto where she specialized in the Law of E-Commerce and Information Technology, Legal Issues in Cyberspace, Telecommunications Economics, Wireless Communications (Spread Spectrum), Internet Law and Governance, Entertainment Law, Freedom of Expression and the Press, Intellectual Property in the Digital Era and Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. She is currently ranked in Band 1 of Chambers Global – Dispute Resolution Guide for Jamaica.

She has in the past acted for the telecommunications regulatory authority The Office of Utilities Regulation particularly as it relates to its functions under the Telecommunications Act 2000. Georgia has worked with one of the major Mobile Telecommunications providers particularly as it relates to Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Short Messaging Services (SMS), numbering issues and competition law issues and the use and misuse of confidential information. She has responded to Office of Utilities Regulations Consultative documents on Universal Service and Dominance in Mobile Call Termination. Georgia has also provided advice on and published papers on competition in communications.

She is referenced in the BICSI 1st edition Wireless Design Manual, authored the 2nd Chapter of the Wireless Design Reference Manual and co-authored the 2nd Chapter of the 3rd Edition. She also authored a chapter on Legal Issues relating to the Electronic Security Design Professional Manual in the BICSI organization published in January 2009.

"Georgia Gibson Henlin is deservedly respected by the public, and her peers, as one of the most successful attorneys in Jamaica."

"She provides top-quality professional legal service."

Experience

Shareholder disputes, Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Media Law(Defamation) and Information Technology – M. Georgia Gibson Henlin, KC is a formidable commercial litigator. She is intuitive, inventive, transformational, and uses her skills and knowledge in information technology to advance her clients’ interests where necessary. She is routinely sought after in difficult and complex matters, and for her tenacity. Her practice focuses on banking disputes, shareholder disputes, trademarks, copyright litigation, media law, (defamation), constitutional challenges and executive employment and labour disputes as well as online liability. Key team leader and strategist. She is regularly sought after in matters having a high degree complexity whereby counsel and clients specifically refer those matters to her. She is bold, and an out of the box thinker. She is known for disrupting narratives.