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The Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers ensures that proper legal services are provided to the Government of Guyana, as well as statutory services to the public. The Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs is the head of the chambers. [ 1 ]
The Supreme Court of Judicature is Guyana's Supreme court. It exercises original jurisdiction over serious matters in Guyana of which a lower court (or, a magistrate's court) does not have the proper authority to operate and/or act on. [1] Both Criminal and Civil appeals are made to the Supreme Court before moving to an appeals court.
Guyanese nationality law is regulated by the 1980 Constitution of Guyana, as amended; the Citizenship Act of 1967, and its revisions; and various British Nationality laws. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Guyana.
Law enforcement in Guyana (1 C) T. Treaties of Guyana (1 C, 191 P) Pages in category "Law of Guyana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Under the Legal Profession Act 2004 (Vic), an individual may practise law, as a legal practitioner, in the state of Victoria if he or she has been admitted to the legal profession in any Australian jurisdiction and holds a current local or interstate practising certificate. [189]
The 2015 Act also specifies the criteria for both solicitors and barristers: [26] (a) has, in his or her practice as a legal practitioner, displayed— (i) a degree of competence and a degree of probity appropriate to and consistent with the grant to him or her of a Patent, (ii) professional independence, and (iii) one or more of the following:
The Official Gazette of Guyana is the government gazette of Guyana.. The Gazette is believed to have been introduced to Guyana by Dutch colonists in the seventeenth century and until 2012 had no statutory footing in Guyanese law, despite many matters being required to be published in it by law.
Fused profession is a term relating to jurisdictions where the legal profession is not divided between barristers and solicitors.Generally, the term is used in the context of Commonwealth countries, where the single profession of barrister and solicitor is provided by statute.