UG law students educated on pathways in legal profession

Students pursuing their Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) at the University of Guyana (UG) were educated on the various pathways in the legal profession during the Guyana Bar Association’s inaugural Law Week, which was observed from April 3-9.
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders, and Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, were among the legal minds who provided the students with guidance at a symposium titled ‘Paths In The Legal Profession’, which was held at the university’s Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown campus.

Nandlall delivered the feature presentation on ‘Pursuing New Pathways in light of Guyana’s Oil & Gas and Satellite Sectors’.
The students were also given guidance on summary court prosecution, criminal defence, civil litigation, State civil litigation, State legal drafting, judicial research, legal aid representation, law reform, and corporate/company law.

Lectures in these areas were delivered by Justice (retired) B.S Roy; Queen’s Counsel Darshan Ramdhani; Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Teshana James-Lake; Solicitor General Nigel Hawke; Deputy Chief Parliamentary Counsel Joann Bond; Director of the Legal Aid Clinic, Attorney-at-Law Shellon Boyce; and Attorneys-at-Law Latchmie Rahamat, Dexter Todd, Joshua Abdool, Tiffany Hohenkirk, Delonté D. De Clou, Mandisa Breedy and Patricia Bacchus.
UG Vice Chancellor Dr Paloma Mohamed; Head of UG Law Department, Dr. Kim Kyte-Thomas; President of the Bar Association, Pauline Chase; and Bar Association Secretary Keoma Griffith also delivered remarks at the symposium.
Law Week was held under the theme ‘Advancing The Rule Of Law In The New Normal’. The Bar Association is, among other things, mandated to uphold the rule of law; and sponsor lectures and discussions, and print and publish periodicals and other documents on any aspect of the law.