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Jun 06, 2008 News
Attorney-at-Law Teni Housty is now president of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), replacing Kashir Khan as head of the legal umbrella body.
The decision was taken at the entity’s Annual General Meeting held recently at which it elected into office a new Bar Council.
Housty will lead the new 12-member executive council.
Attorneys-at-law Gem Sanford-Johnson and Mohammed Khan have been elected as vice-presidents.
Sanford-Johnson was herself recently re-elected as President of the sister organisation, the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL).
Attorney-at-law Gregory Gaskin, who is a former GDF lieutenant-colonel, was elected as the Secretary of the Association, while attorney-at-law Ronald Burch-Smith has been returned unopposed as its Treasurer.
Attorney-at-Law Jaya Manickchand is the new Assistant Secretary/Treasurer.
The other six persons elected to serve as members of the Council are Attorneys-at-Law Kashir Khan, Sharon Small, Nigel Niles, K. Juman Yassin, Kim Kyte-John, and Emily Dodson.
The incoming President has outlined particular areas of focus for the new Council and these include a return to the Association’s core mandate, the lifting of professional standards and conduct of practitioners, the involvement of the Inner Bar (Senior Counsel) in the working of the Association, and the strategic intervention in the public domain on matters of significant legal importance.
Housty was admitted to practise at the Guyana Bar in 1996.
In 2002, he obtained the Master of Laws degree (LLM) while pursuing post-graduate studies in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The new president combines his private practice with the teaching of courses in Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights Law in the LLB programme at the University of Guyana. He has also served for the past three years as a vice-president of the GBA.
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