Richard Layne admitted to bar

New attorney Richard Layne (second from left) poses with Senior Counsel Donald Trotman (extreme left), Justice Roxane George (centre), retired Judge James Patterson and Justice Dawn Gregory

Twenty-two-year-old Richard Layne was on Thursday admitted to the bar after his   petition was heard by two judges.

Layne, who has been blazing the academic trail for number of years and was one of the three Guyanese students to make the Hugh Wooding Law School honours roll at the recent graduation, was admitted to the bar by Justice Roxane George but also sitting in on the hearing was Justice Dawn Gregory.

His petition was presented by retired judge James Patterson, who is his grandfather,