La Jalousie resident admitted to local bar

La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara resident Sasha Mahadeo was yesterday admitted to the local bar after Attorney General Anil Nandlall presented a petition on her behalf to Justice Navindra Singh.

Mahadeo, who is the daughter of ND&S Furniture Store owner Parasram Mahadeo, is a former student of Queen’s College and School of the Nations. She completed her Cambridge A-levels programme

at the latter mentioned learning institution.

From left are:  Justice Navindra Singh, Sasha Mahadeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall
From left are: Justice Navindra Singh, Sasha Mahadeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall

According to her petition, she successfully completed her LLB Degree in 2012 and thereafter attended the Trinidad and Tobago based Hugh Wooding Law School. During her time in Trinidad she obtained training at the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Intellectual Property Office, was the publications committee chairperson and public relations officer at the Hugh Wooding Law School student representative council from 2013 to 2014. She sat as a committee member of the law school’s newspaper and was a member of its disciplinary committee in a student representative capacity.

The petition said too that she worked with the special educational needs children at the School of the Nations and with underprivileged orphans at the Central Islamic Organization. Mahadeo is also a trained Red Cross volunteer.