The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association yesterday upbraided the government over deficient consultations on the local content bill which was passed yesterday and insisted that 100% of legal services should be provided by attorneys here and not 90%.
The Council also rebuked Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC for giving the impression in parliament yesterday that Guyanese legal practitioners do not have the capacity to handle some matters which he described as “technical legal documents” and “joint venture agreements”.
“We outright reject these ill-informed comments particularly since we have not, despite request, … been told what areas of law members of the Bar in Guyana are not qualified to practice (there being no such limitation in the Legal Practitioners Act) and who is to provide the other 10%”, the Bar Association said in a statement.
