Georgetown: “ No nation progresses where the legal system is not functioning and that truth apparently, is dawning quickly in the Caribbean,” Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs of Guyana, Anil Nandlall noted at the recent Executive Committee of the Council of Legal Education of the Caribbean. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held at the Pegasus Hotel to address all matters of the Council involving their financial affairs and administrative issues.
Included among items listed on the agenda was the examination of the pressing demand to accommodate new students who are entering the legal field.
Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs of Guyana, Anil Nandlall noted that the Council was meeting on a packed agenda when the challenges facing it are diverse and many.
“In the Caribbean there is an unprecedented demand for legal services and that demand is manifested in the number of students who are desirous of pursuing legal education. As a result, that has created an extremely daunting task of providing adequate accommodation and facilities to accommodate all these students,” he observed.
Minister Nandlall posited that there is, now more than ever, a salient recognition that there is a connection between law and development.
He reiterated that the heavy demand for lawyers and legally trained personnel is one of the fundamental challenges with which the Council would have to grapple with.
Chairperson of the Council Mrs. Jacqueline Samuels-Brown expressed appreciation for the Government of Guyana for the immediate and positive response towards the request for hosting the AGM. She expressed the hope that the meeting would help to build and strengthen relations among Caribbean territories, and to help build focus on special issues facing Guyana in relation to the Council.
The Council of Legal Education has been in existence for over 30 years and trains legal practitioners in the Commonwealth Caribbean in fulfillment of its Mission Statement.
Legal luminaries of the Caribbean who attended the meeting included the Attorney General of Dominica, Levi Peters; Minister of State for Legal Affairs of Barbados, Damien Gomes; Attorneys General alternate representing Grenada, Guyanese Darshan Ramdhani; Jennifer Edwards Q.C of Barbados; Samraj Haripaul S.C. and alternate for Trinidad; Nicole Foster-Pucci, Alternate for Jamaica; Principals of the law schools Miriam Samaroo of the Hugh Wooding Law School, Ms. Tonya Bastian Gallani of Eugene Dupuch Law School and Mrs. Carol Anya of Norman Manley Law School among others.
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