HWLS - Key Persons
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- Senior Tutor II and Course Director for Civil Procedure and Practice I
Dr. Des Vignes is a Senior Tutor II and the Course Director for Civil Procedure and Practice I at the Hugh Wooding Law School. Dr. Des Vignes was admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago in 1998. She worked as an associate at the firm of Fitzwilliam, Stone and Furness-Smith for three years and as Legal Counsel for BWIA/Caribbean Airlines for four years. She also spent a number of years in private practice where her primary areas of practice were civil and family litigation as well as probate and commercial related matters. In addition to a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of the West Indies and a Legal Education Certificate from the Council of Legal Education, Dr. Des Vignes also posesses a Master of Science Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University, Florida with a concentration in organizational and school conflict as well as conflict in health care. Dr. DesVignes is a certified civil and family mediator and also holds the position of Student Ombudsman at the Hugh Wooding Law School.
The June Renie Law Library of the Hugh Wooding Law School is housed on two floors in the Law School's building. The primary purpose of the Law Library is to satisfy the teaching and research needs of staff and students at the Hugh Wooding Law School.
The Law Library is also cognisant of the legal information needs of the region and as a result the resources of the Law Library are made available to legal practitioners, Government departments, private agencies and members of the public throughout the Caribbean region.
Our Online catalogue represents the holdings of the June Renie Law Library, and provides information on:
Approximately 10,360 legal texts.
Law Journal titles with analytical entries of articles which have been added with effect from 2000.
Unreported Judgments - A collection of records accessible through the Registered Patron Login.
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- Secretary / Human Resources
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- Manager, Information Technology
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- Director of the Legal Aid Clinic
- Director, Legal Aid Clinic
Mr Ashook Balroop is an attorney-at-law and Director of the Legal Aid Clinic at the Hugh Wooding Law School.
Mr Balroop holds a Bachelor of Laws with honours from the University of London, a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School, a Master's degree in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of the West Indies, and a Master's degree in Business Administration with Distinctions from the Edinburgh School of Business.
He was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 and his legal career spans both the public and private sectors. He is currently a Doctor of Philosophy Law Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies.
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- Assistant Registrar - Finance and Property Maintenance
- Certified Chartered Accountant and Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Mr. Norville is a Certified Chartered accountant and member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institution of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Norville has over 17 years of accounting and financial experience across multiple industries, namely Education, Hospitality, Medical and Construction. Before joining the Hugh Wooding Law School, Mr. Norville worked at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus, for over seven years.
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- Course Director for Law Office Management, Accounting & Technology
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- Attorney - at - Law
- Tutor Legal Aid Clinic
Jason Nathu is an attorney-at-law, at the Legal Aid Clinic. His primary areas of practice are civil litigation, intellectual property, family law and administration of estates. Mr. Nathu holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of the West Indies, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies, a Legal Education Certificate from the Council of Legal Education and a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Law from the University of London. He was admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago in 2006.
Job Titles:
- Manager of Quality Assurance, Research
- Manager Office for Quality Assurance, Research & Effectiveness
- Manager, Quality Assurance, Research & Effectiveness
Lyndon Richard Abdool has served as Manager of Quality Assurance, Research and Effectiveness at the Council of Legal Education, Hugh Wooding Law School since 2013. In this role, he manages all aspects of quality assurance (QA), monitoring and quality reviews, and institutional research.
Mr Abdool has over 18 years of diverse experience spanning quality assurance bodies and higher education institutions. He offers extensive expertise in policy development, institutional accreditation, and strategic management.
Mr Abdool served as Vice President of the Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (2017 to 2019). He currently serves as a Board Member and supports the development of QA throughout the Caribbean region.
Mr Abdool holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Hons) and an International Master of Business Administration (Distinction). He is pursuing doctoral research on strategy implementation and institutional performance in higher education institutions.
A recognised presenter, Mr Abdool, has delivered papers on quality assurance at regional conferences. In 2015, he received the Presidential Scholarship from the Association for Institutional Research, enabling him to pursue professional development in data management and learning objectives. He also pursued professional certification in quality management systems, human resource management, strategic management, and research methods.
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- Course Director for Criminal Practice and Procedure & Trial Advocacy Year I
Mr Roger Ramgoolam is a graduate of The UWI, St Augustine holding a Bachelor of Laws degree. He received his Legal Education Certificate from Hugh Wooding Law School in 1997.
Mr Ramgoolam was employed at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for four years, was in private practice for six years and a Magistrate for three years.
He was appointed to the academic staff of the Law School in 2012.
In 2013, he obtained a Master of Laws degree in Public Law from the UWI.
Mr Ramgoolam has co-written the course text and has self-published a case book on Criminal Practice and Procedure. He enjoys sports, music, reading, exercising and movies.
Mr Roshan Ramcharitar is a full time tutor in the Legal Aid Clinic since 2019 and an associate tutor in Ethics, Rights and Obligations of the Legal Profession.
Mr Ramcharitar started his legal career as a Judicial Research Assistant at the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago where he worked with judges in the civil and criminal jurisdictions. He then spent 5 years as State Counsel in the Solicitor General's Department where he appeared as an advocate in a range of civil and public law matters. He has also tutored law at UWI.
He earned from UWI the BA degree in History with International Relations, LLB and LLM in Public Law. He is a proud graduate of Hugh Wooding Law School.
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- Course Director for Ethics, Rights & Obligations of the Legal Profession
Mrs Aberleen Boodoosingh was admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago. She graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School with a Certificate of Merit in 2004. This is the highest award granted by the Council of Legal Education. Mrs Boodoosingh was employed in private practice prior to joining the faculty at the Law School in a part-time capacity in 2014 and full-time from 2021. She has also been a Tutor at the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies.
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- Course Director for Conveyancing and Registration of Title
Candice Jones-Simmons is a former adjunct lecturer and tutor at the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, where she lectured the law of real property for over 10 years. Her passion for this area of law was supported by her experience in the practice of conveyancing and her role as a former partner and head of the property and estates department at a highly regarded law firm in Trinidad and Tobago. Her interest in the practice of landlord and tenant stems from her years of advising both residential and commercial landlords and tenants. She has also advised various financial institutions, corporate clients, real estate agents, and other various parties in the conduct of real estate transactions. Candice is a member of the Corporate, Commercial, and Conveyancing Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Law Association.
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- Course Director for Legal Drafting and Interpretation
Mrs. Kerry-Ann Paula Harrison was admitted to practice law in the year 2006.
Before joining the Hugh Wooding Law School, in 2013, she worked in private practice where she practiced in the civil law dimension, working in civil litigation, corporate law, industrial relations, family law, environmental law and aviation law. Mrs. Harrison first taught in the Legal Aid Department, where she was responsible for teaching a General Law Clinic and the Environmental Law Clinic. In 2019, she was made the Course Director for Legal Drafting and Interpretation.
Mrs. Harrison has served her country as a former Director of the Agricultural Development Bank, the Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority, the Caribbean Air Navigation Advisory Authority, the Emperor Valley Zoo, the Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, the Horticultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago and the International Wine Guild (Caribbean). She has worked on various cabinet appointed committees as well as appeared before Joint Select Committees of Parliament on various national issues.
Mrs. Harrison is a proud Rotarian and is a past Rotary President of the Rotary Club of San Juan and is a Paul Harris Fellow. She is also an active member of the Manatee Conservation Trust and the Caribbean Animal Welfare Association.
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- Course Director for Landlord and Tenant
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- Senior Tutor
- Senior Tutor and Course Director for the Law of Remedies
Mrs. Cheryl-Ann Jerome Alexander is a graduate of Hugh Wooding Law School. She joined the employ of the Council of Legal Education in 1999, 8 years after being called to the bar in Trinidad and Tobago. She taught at Eugene Dupuch Law School for three years and joined the staff of Hugh Wooding Law School in 2002. Her teaching focus has been in the area of property law. In her 23 years with the Council of Legal Education, she has taught Conveyancing & Registration of Title (Eugene Dupuch Law School), Law of Remedies (Eugene Dupuch Law School, Hugh Wooding Law School) and Landlord & Tenant (Hugh Wooding Law School). She was appointed Senior Tutor of Hugh Wooding Law school in 2008. She is motivated by a desire to create an exciting and enjoyable learning experience for students. She is the holder of a Bachelor of Laws (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill), the Legal Education Certificate and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Law.
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- Attorney - at Law
- Tutor Legal Aid Clinic
Mrs. Farah R. Ali-Khan is an Attorney-at Law in practice for the past 21 years, having been admitted to the Bar in 2002. A graduate of the Hugh Wooding Law School, Mrs. Ali-Khan joined the employ of the Council of Legal Education in August 2022, as a Tutor in the Legal Aid Clinic. She has been in active civil litigation for the entirety of her practice, having functioned as an Advocate Attorney-at-Law at the Solicitor General's Department and thereafter in private practice in the role of instructing Attorney and as advocate Attorney.
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- Assistant Registrar - Student Services, Events and Records Management
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- Manager & Tutor Legal Aid Clinic
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- Office Manager
- Secretary
- Tutor Legal Aid Clinic
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- Attorney - at - Law
- Tutor Legal Aid Clinic
Kavita Deochan is an Attorney-at-law called to the bar in Trinidad and Tobago. She is the holder of a Bachelor's in Education, a Bachelor of Laws degree from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School. She also has a master's degree in Public International Law from the University of London.
Ms. Deochan is presently an attorney-at-Law and Tutor at the Legal Aid Clinic of the Hugh Wooding Law School. Prior to joining the Legal Aid Clinic, Ms. Deochan was a Junior Counsel in the Chambers of Mr. Kerwyn Garcia, S.C. At this Chambers, she provided support to Senior Advocate Attorney-at-Law in matters before the Industrial Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Ms. Deochan was also employed as a Judicial Counsel at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and a Judicial Research Counsel at the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago. At the CCJ, Ms. Deochan was involved in numerous committees and was a member of the steering committee of the CCJ Academy for Law, which is the educational arm of the Court. Ms. Deochan also played a fundamental role in the Academy's Eminent Caribbean Jurists series aimed at commemorating and documenting the work of the region's eminent jurists in various fields of law. Ms. Deochan was also one of the Facilitators engaged in judicial training for the Judiciary of the Bahamas with The Caribbean Association for Judicial Officers (CAJO), and was part of the CAJO research and writing team that developed the Criminal Bench Book for Barbados, Belize, and Guyana.
She has a passion for advocacy, and has been actively engaged in regional organisations working on law reform, championing of human rights cases, and the promotion of gender equality, human rights education and training and publications within the Caribbean region.
Job Titles:
- Institutional Research Officer
Ms. Lauren Raghubir has over 15 years working experience in the field of research in institutions for Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Academic/Tertiary education. Since 2015, she has been employed with the Council of Legal Education, Hugh Wooding Law School (CLE-HWLS). Her duties involve research implementation, research planning and design, data processing, data analysis and report writing.
Ms. Raghubir holds a Masters of Arts degree in Educational Psychology, from Andrews University, Berrrien Springs, Michigan, and a Bachelors of Arts degree in Literatures in English with Psychology, from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. Currently, Ms. Raghubir is pursuing a Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership (Higher Education) with The University of the West Indies, Open Campus.
Through extensive training and successful completion of certificate programmes, Ms. Raghubir possesses considerable knowledge in areas of Research and Statistics, Quality Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Teaching and Learning and Mediation. Ms. Raghubir also does voluntary work in personal counselling and mediation (Civil Non-Family Matters and Family Mediation). She also provides voluntary consultancy in social research in relation to data mining, research instrument design, data collection (personal interviews and focus group discussions), moderating focus group discussions and data analysis.
Apart from her professional accomplishments, Ms. Raghubir has a passion for helping those in need and makes numerous charitable contributions especially to the youth and families in various communities within Trinidad and Tobago.
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- HR Manager
- Human Resource Manager
Lisa Ramjattan joined the HWLS team in 2019 as our HR Manager. She brings with her over 16 years of experience in the HR field. At HWLS, she provides guidance on all HR functions inclusive of developing and maintaining a performance management culture, building staff capacity through learning and development initiatives and championing employee engagement activities.
Prior to joining the team, she worked for the Massy Group of companies as a HR Team Leader and prior to that she was the Assistant Manager of Recruitment, Selection and Staffing at Scotiabank. Lisa was also part of the adjunct faculty with the University of the West Indies and COSTAATT for 12 years.
Ms. Ramjattan is a holder of a holder of a BSc degree in Sociology and Management Studies from the University of the West Indies, a Masters of Human Resource Management from the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies. She is a Senior Certified Professional with the Society of Human Resource Management and is a certified change specialist with PROSCI.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law
- Course Director for Civil Procedure & Practice I - Family
Ms. Guerin is an Attorney at law and was admitted to practice in 2008. Prior to joining the Hugh Wooding Law School in 2013, she worked at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago as well as with the Deposit Insurance Corporation in complex corporate litigious matters. Ms. Guerin worked as a Tutor at the Legal Aid Clinic of the Hugh Wooding Law School for six years before being appointed as the Course Director, Family Procedure & Practice.
Job Titles:
- Course Director of Civil Procedure and Practice II
Paula Pierre is a graduate of the Hugh Wooding Law School. She was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1987 and entered private practice where she focused on Family matters, and Civil Litigation. Ms Pierre has spent the majority of her career working as a Court Registrar, initially at the Supreme Court of Judicature of Trinidad and Tobago for approximately twelve years and thereafter at the Caribbean Court of Justice for eight years.
Ms Pierre joined the full-time staff at the Hugh Wooding Law School in August 2015. Although currently the Course Director in Civil Procedure and Practice II she has also served as the Course Director for the Law of Remedies.
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- Quality Assurance Officer for the Office of Quality Assurance, Research
Wayne Rock is the Quality Assurance Officer for the Office of Quality Assurance, Research and Effectiveness Unit at the Hugh Wooding Law School. Mr Rock has over ten years of experience as a quality assurance professional in higher education and an ICT trainer/consultant within competency-based training settings. As a certified Applied Quality Management professional, he is experienced in the conducting of institutional self-assessments, coordination of quality audits and the analysis and reporting of assessment data for continuous improvement and accreditation. Mr Rock holds a first-class honours Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems from the University of Hertfordshire and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business.