Six-Month Programme
August 30, 2023 2024-10-14 13:33Six-Month Programme
Six-Month Programme
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Law School offers a transitional (six-month) course of training for common law professionally trained persons. The course of training runs from the commencement of the academic year of the Law School and ends six months thereafter. Courses taken are:
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Legal Systems of the Caribbean
- Criminal Practice and Procedure
- Law Office Management, Accounting and Technology
The Principal may add to or exempt a student from any of the foregoing subjects having regard to his/her professional qualification and experience. Students in the transitional (six-month) programme are required to spend a period of attachment at a law office/firm and undertake legal work for not less than the six-month period except when they are required to be in attendance at the Law School. The Senior Tutor will determine the law office/firm to which the student will be attached. Students will be expected also to avail themselves of opportunities for practical training as court attendance, trial advocacy exercises and any other courses prescribed by the Principal. On successful completion of the course of study, the student is awarded the Council’s Legal Education Certificate (LEC). The Council however wishes to bring to the attention of all persons, especially persons who are not Commonwealth Caribbean nationals that it is their responsibility to satisfy themselves of the admission requirements of any territory in which they intend to practise since the Legal Education Certificate does not by itself entitle them to admission to practice.
Entry Requirements
To be eligible for admission, applicants must:
- have a degree of a University or Institution which is recognised by the Council as being equivalent to the degree of Bachelor of Laws of The University of the West Indies; and
- hold either:
– a qualification which, had it been obtained prior to 1st October, 1972, would have been recognised by all of the participating territories as a qualification to be admitted to practise as a barrister or solicitor in those territories; or
– a qualification obtained in a common law jurisdiction for admission to practise law in that jurisdiction and which qualification is approved by the Council; and - furnish a certificate of good standing from the competent authority in the jurisdiction where they have been admitted to practice.
Applications for admission to this programme must be made on the prescribed application form and would have to be supported by the following:
- a transcript of the applicant’s academic record in relation to his/her law degree; • An authenticated copy of the syllabus pursued;
- A certificate of admission to practice together with a description of the course of professional training and;
- An up-to-date curriculum vitae.
