Equal Opportunity Policy

The Council of Legal Education is committed to the establishment and maintenance of an indigenous system of legal education for the Caribbean.  The very establishment of the Council was premised on its partnership with the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, to create, through their joint programmes, a graduate trained in the Caribbean to respond to the legal needs of the region.  By Treaty and in keeping with its foundation principles, the Council has a primary obligation to admit all graduates of the Faculty of Law, UWI over all other students.  As a result of a decision of Council in 1996, currently twenty-five Guyanese nationals who are graduates of the University of Guyana are, in each academic year, allocated places at the Hugh Wooding Law School without sitting the Entrance Examinations.  Apart from this, admission of students to Council’s Law Schools is based on proven excellence in Council’s Entrance Examinations and space availability.

The Council does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability or politics.  In fact, it is the policy of Council to facilitate persons with disabilities and administrative processes have been established and have been used for several years to mitigate any disadvantage that any student may have once information of that disability is available on a timely basis.