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Named for Trinidad and Tobago jurist and politician Hugh Wooding, HWLS is one of three law schools empowered by the (Caribbean) Council of Legal Education to award Legal Education Certificates, along with the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica and the Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas. It opened its doors to students in September 1973. [1]
The provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago require the attorney general to be responsible for the administration of legal affairs within the country. Legal proceedings for and against the State must be taken in the name of the attorney general (in the case of civil proceedings) and in the name of the State (in the ...
Hugh Wooding was born in Trinidad and Tobago into a family that hailed from Barbados. [2] In 1914, he was awarded an exhibition to attend Queen's Royal College, and won the island scholarship to study law at the Middle Temple in London, being admitted to the Bar in 1927.
The judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago is a branch of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago that interprets and applies the laws of Trinidad and Tobago, to ensure equal justice under law, and to provide a mechanism for dispute resolution. The judiciary is a hierarchical system comprising a Supreme Court of Judicature, a Magistracy and a Family Court.
Trinidad Cement Limited and TCL Guyana Incorporated v Republic of Guyana [2009] CCJ 1 (OJ): The Court held that for a company to fall within the meaning of the phrase "persons, natural or juridical, of a Contracting Party" of Article 222 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) and thus have locus standi, it is sufficient for such a company ...
The presiding officer, the President of the Senate, is elected from among the Senators who are not Ministers or Parliamentary Secretaries. A senator must be at least 25 years old and a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. The current President of the Senate is Senator Nigel de Freitas.
The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) is a unicameral devolved legislative body responsible for the island of Tobago within the unitary state of Trinidad and Tobago.The THA was re-established in 1980 [1] to rectify some of the disparities in the relationship between the two islands; a prior body of the same name existed from 1768 to 1874. [2]
Presiding Officer (Within Parliament) The Honourable (Formal) Term length: Elected by the Tobago House of Assembly at the start of each session, and upon a vacancy, no limits imposed: Inaugural holder: Jefferson G. Davidson Christo Gift (Deputy Presiding Officer) Formation: 1996: Deputy: Joel Sampson: Salary: TT$20,890 (per month) (Presiding ...