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Dec 12, 2017 News
Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, has denied claims of any involvement in efforts to undermine the establishment of a local law school.
In a statement to the press, the Chancellor categorically labelled the allegations leveled against him by Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs as a gross inaccuracy and a complete falsehood.
“It is a gross inaccuracy and a complete falsehood for the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs to assert that I was a member of the Review Committee which issued a report to say that the Council of Legal Education never gave permission to Guyana to establish its own Law School.”
According to Justice Singh the assertion has no basis in truth or in fact.
“Indeed such a statement was recklessly made without consideration for its consequences. The fact is that for several months prior to my retirement in February of this year, I had stopped attending meetings of the Review Committee. Additionally, my retirement marked the end of my membership of the Review committee.”
He noted that all of the meetings of the Review Committee which he attended were chaired by Mrs. Jacqueline Samuels-Browne, QC.
“I never attended or participated in such meetings chaired by Mr. Reginald Armour, S.C the current Chairman of the Council of Legal Education either in person or by electronic means. I certainly did not attend or participate in a Review Committee meeting Chaired by Mr. Armour, S.C in January of this year in Jamaica.
I was never part of any Review Committee discussion on a proposed Law School for Guyana nor have I ever contributed in any form or manner to the preparation and release of any report by the Review Committee which addressed the proposed Law School for Guyana.”
Attorney General, (AG), Basil Williams, S.C has accused former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Carl Singh, and PPP executive member, Anil Nandlall of undermining efforts to establish a local law school.
In a release to the press last Saturday, the AG outlined what he called a massive attack against the establishment of the school.
According to recently uncovered information on the matter, that new Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Reginald Armour of Trinidad and Tobago is relying on a report of a Review Committee, which included former Chancellor Justice Carl Singh, is now saying that the CLE never gave permission to Guyana to establish its own Law School.
According to information released from the Ministry of Legal Affairs, the former Chancellor was the only head of Judiciary on this Review Committee established in 2009. He was allowed to continue to serve on the committee by the new Chairman, until he retired from that office.
In September 2017, the Review Committee which comprised the Principals of the three Law Schools under the CLE; a Senior Counsel from Barbados, former Chancellor Carl Singh, the new Chairman and the Guyana delegation which included Attorney-General, Basil Williams were present at the meeting in which a decision of a Council Meeting made in September 2016 was revisited.
That meeting was chaired by previous Chairman, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown S.C., of Jamaica who concluded with some “determination had been made, granting Guyana permission to establish a Law School.
The new Chairman (Amour) reportedly raised no objection about the decision taken at the time, which later led to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, (MOU) with the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) and the Law College of the Americas (LCA) on January 11, 2017 in Guyana.
However, the AG claimed that the discourse over the matter between Justice Singh, Nandlall and the new Chairman of the CLE (Amour) has led to the issue being placed at the top of the agenda of the next executive Council Meeting of the CLE, in the New Year.
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