Some of the University of Guyana (UG) law students who applied to sit the entrance examination to get into the Hugh Wooding Law School received letters from Norman Manley Law School this week indicating the receipt of their registration, and briefing them on details about the July 2nd examination.
This development has lifted the spirits of Guyana’s Hugh Wooding hopefuls, who, for weeks, have been despondent about their chances of writing the examination and being accepted into the law school. This stemmed from the decision taken in February by the Caribbean’s Council of Legal Education (CLE) to deny all applicants from non-University of the West Indies (UWI) law faculties access into Hugh Wooding.
The CLE had said that Hugh Wooding is beyond its capacity as is, and is expecting a torrent of law graduates from UWI’s three law faculties in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica, who, as per the CLE agreement, are guaranteed access upon graduating. As a result, a prior agreement to automatically grant entry to the
