Guyana to prepare full report on establishing law school

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 February 2025, 9:51 by Writer

Guyana has been tasked by the Caribbean’s Council of Legal Education (CLE) to prepare a final feasibility report on the establishment of a law school here, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.

Mr Nandlall said that is the major outcome of talks that he held with CLE representatives on January 29. He said the report has to be submitted to the CLE the latest by August in time for the Council’s meeting in September.

He said the CLE sub-committee would be working with a team in Guyana to provide information about the intake of each law school, how many students are graduating across the region, how many persons are unable to enter law schools of the region, whether there would be a constant supply of students to ensure viability of a Guyana law school.

“Those are the type of data that we have to provide in the study to show that it is a feasible venture,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.

The Attorney General said the CLE was “very impressed” with Guyana’s interim report which shows that a law school here would be feasible.

Mr Nandlall said the fee structure, rules and regulations, and management would be done by the CLE.

If approved, the Guyana law school would become the fourth such institution in the region; the others are the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad, Eugene Dupuch Law School in The Bahamas and the Jamaica-based Norman Manley Law School.

Guyana has for several decades toyed with the idea of setting up a law school to ensure Guyanese can readily gain entry to a CLE-accredited institution to pursue the Certificate of Legal Education to allow law degree holders to practice in courts across the Commonwealth Caribbean including remaining British dependencies in the region.