A former paralegal at the Fraser, Housty and Yearwood law firm, Shantel Scott was admitted to the local bar last Tuesday after attorney-at-law and partner at the said firm Stephen GN Fraser presented her petition to Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire.
Twenty-six-year-old Scott started her academic journey at St Anne’s Primary and went on to blaze a trail of academic excellence at the Bishop’s High School where she earned eight subjects at the CSEC exams, including three distinctions and a double award in Agriculture Science; five subjects at CAPE and an ‘A’ grade in Law at the GCE A level.
While at Bishops’ she also obtained two House Service Medal awards (in 2004 and 2005) the Fidele Medal for most contributions made to her school, in 2006, and the Dingaan Stephenson Law prize in 2006.
Scott obtained her LLB from the University of Guyana in 2009 where she graduated with a distinction and 3.5 GPA, followed by her LEC at the Hugh Wooding Law School where she graduated on the Principal’s Honour Roll. Along the way, she received the Oswald J Wilson Memorial Prize for the Best Performance in Landlord and Tenant Award and the Peterson, Lambert Peterson & Co Prize for the Best Performance in Evidence and Forensic Medicine Award, both in 2013 and the Most Outstanding Student in the Legal aid Clinic Award this year.
Scott extended gratitude to her mother Regina Scott, noting that “If I am a better individual, it was because I stood on the back of an amazing mother and friend.” She also paid tribute to her late father Elford Scott from whom she learnt “to apply discipline throughout her academic journey.”
Scott also thanked the named partners at Fraser, Housty and Yearwood law firm, and partner Marcel Bobb for their selfless support, mentorship and guidance that has allowed her to realize a childhood dream. She also thanked her fiancé Rohan Lall, brother, sister, relatives Walter and Olive Morris, Drupattie Miller, Winston Miller and Ramona Singh for their support.
