MEET OUR LEGAL CONSULTANT | HURISTA
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Limar Francisca (1985) is our highly competent professional legal consultant and representative and the practice owner of LIF Legal. He was born and raised on the island of Curaçao. He is a humanist who thinks from reason, ethics and justice and he has a very progressive mindset. In 2019 he reached a milestone in his career by being appointed by Royal Decree as one of the first regional deputy public prosecutor at the court in first instance of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba and by designing and leading the first policy for Execution of criminal sentences & judicial collection of fines and crime victim compensations. With this major achievements he has undoubtedly left a blue print in criminal justice and in victim care in Caribbean Netherlands.
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Qualification
Limar studied law in the Netherlands at School of Law of InHolland University of applied sciences and thereafter at School of Law of Open University of the Netherlands. He earned a professional law degree with a major in Administrative Law and Constitutional Law and many academic certificates in legal studies. He also completed various certified post-graduate Criminal Law Training Programmes at the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary (SSR).
| Career | |
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| 2023 - present | Practice owner, legal consultant and representative in Civil Law & Criminal Law practice | LIF Legal at Curaçao. |
| 2019 - 2022 | Dep. Public Prosecutor in Criminal Law Court of Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba, Senior Judicial Law Clerk and Portfolio Holder of Execution of Criminal Sentences | Public Prosecutor Office of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. |
| 2018 - 2019 | Senior Legal Policy Advisor to the Chief Public Prosecutor | Public Prosecutor Office of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. Remarkable achievements: Prosecution of violations of the Bonaire Road Traffic Ordinance, Ordinance driving under influence BES, Policy Special forensic investigative methods, Prosecution of violence against officials and Execution of criminal sentences. |
| 2013 - 2017 | Judicial Law Clerk in Cantonal, Civil & Criminal Law Court | District Courthouse of Midden-Nederland, The Hague and Rotterdam. Remarkable achievement: Dutch jurisprudence December 22, 2014, ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2014:7086. |
| 2011 - 2012 | Legal Policy Advisor Law Enforcement & Public Order | Municipality Ridderkerk - regio Rotterdam-Rijnmond. |
| 2010 - 2011 | Legal Advisor Procedural Law | Inholland Legal Advice & Consultancy Centre in Rotterdam. |
Statistics
Limar has done legal research, legal assessment and legal memoranda for more than 1.500 cases during his legal career at the Courthouse (Civil Law) and the Public Prosecutor Office (Criminal Law).
Extra activities
- 2021 - present Co-founder and CFO of Fundashon E Mihó Solushon (FEMS) in Bonaire.
- 2024 - present Outside member of the Curaçao Bar Association (Orde van Advocaten).
- 2024 - present Board member of Stichting Schuldsanering en Bewindvoering Curaçao.
- 2023 - 2024 Academic judicial research on Corporate Governance in Dutch law and Curaçao law, Open University of the Netherlands.
- 2023 - 2023 Organizer and co-executive producer, in association with the organization Fundashon Museo Tula and prof. dr. Rose Mary Allen, of the masterclasses Slavery, Law and Reparations, in commemoration of 160 years of the abolition of slavery in Curaçao.
Limar is fluent in the languages Papiamentu, Dutch, English and Spanish.
