The plans for Guyana to have its own Law School are still in the pipeline, with a feasibility exercise for the setting up of the school still ongoing, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.

The Government has already identified the land where the Law School will be built.

During a recent Press Conference, the Attorney General noted that the feasibility study should have been completed already, but there have been some delays that have dragged the process on.

“There has been a hold up, and that delay is largely attributable to the fact that we have not gotten from the Council of Legal Education’s Law schools’ information that we have requested and that are required to do the feasibility study.

More than two years ago, the Council for Legal Education in the Caribbean, agreed to accept a proposal from Guyana to set up its own Law School.

The Council subsequently outlined the requirements that need to be met, including the completion of a feasibility study.

“The approval for the Law School, has essentially been given preliminarily but we have to satisfy certain criteria and patriciate in a process before that decision is crystallize, and that is the process that we are participating in,” Mr. Nandlall stated. 

Only last week, the Attorney General dispatched a letter to the Chairperson of the Council for Legal Education, seeking her intervention in the matter. Guyana has been finding it difficult to get certain information from other Law Schools in the region to move the process forward.

“I believe the Council has reached a decision, that there are going to be additional Law Schools and that one will be located in Guyana,” the AG said.

At present, the Council operates Laws Schools in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and The Bahamas.

Guyana has been trying to set up its own Law School for decades since the number of students from Guyana accepted to regional law schools is limited. 

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