The Ministry of Legal Affairs has announced that Guyana is inching towards having its own Law School, administered and managed by the Council of Legal Education.

In a statement last evening, the Attorney General’s Chambers announced that the Council has found favour with a recent proposal by the Government of Guyana to provide the lands and buildings for a Guyana Law School to be established.

According to a statement, the Attorney General Anil Nandlall laid out Guyana’s case before the Council of Legal Education at its most recent meeting. He said the Coucil found favour with Guyana’s pleadings and has made a decision to write the Government of Guyana shortly, setting out the criteria and other requirements which the Government will have to satisfy for the establishment of the Law School.

Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonnette Cummings and Attorneys Teni Housty and Kamal Ramkarran of the Guyana Bar Association also attended and made presentations at the meeting to support Guyana’s position to have its own Law School.

The proposed Law School is expected to attract students from across the Region and further afield and is expected to ease the overcrowding at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago and the Normal Manley Law School in Jamaica.

Guyanese law graduates seeking to complete their law studies to be able to practice currently have to travel to one of the regional law institutions to complete the two year Certificate in Legal Education programme.

Guyana has been making repeated efforts over the past thirty years to have a law school established locally.

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