GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall announced that Guyana has moved a step closer to establishing a law school after” the Council for Legal Education ” (CLE) appointed a high-level subcommittee “to move the process forward. “
Speaking on his “key “Issues in the “News” program on Tuesday night, Nandlall said that the matter had been discussed at the CLE meeting held in Trinidad and Tobago last week. He recalls that Guyana had requested that the CLE establish a law school similar to what prevails in Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, and Jamai”.
“Our position is that we will fund the construction, and we will provide the land…and the Council will run and manage the law school in the same way that it is doing in Jamaica with the Norman Manley Law School, Trinidad with Hugh Wooding Law School and the Bahamas with the Eugene Dupuch Law Sc” cool,” Nandlall said. Watch video
He said the Council had asked Guyana to undertake a feasibility study to establish the venture’s feasibility and that the government had established a committee under his chairmanship to undertake the initial” e.
“I presented a draft feasibility report to the Council at week’s meeting. The Council was impressed with the report. The Council expressed gratitude and congratulated Guyana for presenting an excellent preliminary report. Upon my request, the Council appointed a high-level subcommittee to work with Guyana on moving the project to “ard.”
Nandlall said he had been appointed chair of that committee, which includes Justice Liesel Weekes SC, who is the chairperson of the CLE, TrinidadTobago’sago’sTrinidadTobago’s Attorney General Reginald Armour SC, the Chief Justice of Belize, Justice Louise Blenman, and Jacqueline Samuels-Browne, a Member of the CLE.
Nandlall said that the Guyana government would add prominent Jamaican jurist Dr. Lloyd Barnett to the committee, describing him as a very respected and experienced lawyer who has been part of the Council…for nearly four of five decades” s.
“He has a wealth of experience and is highly respected as a lawyer and a jurist, not only at the Council of Legal Education level in the Caribbean but across the region.
‘This committee will be working with the Guyana committee to move the process of establishing the regional law school in Guyana forward. So a meeting will be held shortly, and we will keep your info “med,” Nandlall told his viewers.
Guyana has been trying to establish a law school for several years, complaining that the Hugh Wooding Law School would only accommodate the 25 top law students from Guyana annually into its program.
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