Guyana one step closer to establishing CLE Law School
The Council of Legal Education of the West Indies (CLE) has accepted Guyana’s proposal for the agency to establish its presence in the country.
The Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs announced the development yesterday.
For almost 30 years, Guyana had been courting CLE for it to establish a school similar to the Hugh Wooding Law School, St Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Norman Manley Law School in Kingston, Jamaica, and Eugene Dupuch Law School in Nassau, Bahamas.
AG Anil Nandlall presented Guyana’s successful bid to the Council of Legal Education during their meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, held on September 16 and 17.
“In his presentation, the Attorney General informed the Council that unlike a proposal made by his predecessor, Basil Williams, SC, which the Council rejected, the Government of Guyana is proposing that the law school be a Council’s institution to be managed and administered by the CLE but that the Government will provide the land and buildings based upon criteria and specifications set by the Council,” the ministry said in a statement.
“This request was favourably considered, and the Council decided to write the Government of Guyana shortly after, informing of this decision and setting out the criteria and other requirements the Government will have to satisfy.”
The ministry noted the proposed Law School would attract students from across the Caribbean and ease the burden on the Hugh Wooding and Norman Manley Law Schools.
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