The CCJ Academy for Law yesterday announced the selection of 48 regional lawyers to be recognised as luminaries and among them are eight from Guyana including Senior Counsel Rex McKay.
Of the eight named, McKay and Dr Claude Denbow SC are the only ones alive. The others are the recently deceased Ashton Chase SC, Professor JOF Haynes, Dr. Mohamed Shahabuddeen SC, Sir Lionel Alfred Luckhoo SC, Sir Fenton Ramsahoye SC and Clarence Hughes SC.
These lawyers are to be recognised as ‘Legendary Caribbean Legal Practitioners’ in the third instalment of the Academy’s Eminent Caribbean Jurist series. A release from the CCJ Academy for Law said that among the awardees are giants of the legal profession representing historical, transitional, and contemporary epochs of law and development in the region.