The Bar Association of Guyana will be hosting its second annual Law Week from today to April 28 under the theme “New Frontiers in Law, Preparing for the Future”.
This announcement was made by the association in release dated Friday.
The release said that the week of activities will commence with a Walkathon today which will depart from the Square of the Revolution and end at the Court of Appeal via Brickdam and High Street. Members of the public are invited to participate. The next day, April 24, those attorneys-at-law in private practice who have so volunteered will give of their time and resources to offer pro bono services through the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic. And on Tuesday 25th, the Bar Association in collaboration with the CARICOM Competition Commission will host a webinar at the Bar on Competition Law and Consumer Policy. The aim of the webinar is to build capacity.
This capacity building will continue on Wednesday, April 26, with a Virtual Law Conference. Presentations will be made by members of the Bench and Bar in Guyana together with colleagues from the Houston Bar, New York Bar, British Virgin Islands and Trinidad & Tobago’s Public Defenders’ Department.
On the evening of Thursday April 27, the Bar Association in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will host a panel discussion as an extension of the “Pro Bono 500” initiative which commenced in December 2021. During the day, and facilitated by the Ministry of Education, attorneys-at-law will visit high schools in all three counties to give guidance on the responsible use of social media in keeping with the Cyber Crime Act.
The curtains will close on the week of activities on Friday, April 28, with a symposium at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. There will be a feature address by Justice Winston Anderson, of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) along with an address by the Attorney General & Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall. Remarks will be given by Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag.), Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, and President of the Bar Association, Pauline Chase.
The final event will be a cocktail gala in the evening where Justice Anderson will be the guest of honour, the release added.
