and 1972 to head the Unit at St . Augustine and was assisted by Mr . Aubrey Fraser , Mr . Martin Daly SC , Mr . Anthony Jacelon SC and Mr . Al Roberts . Mrs . Parker was then followed by Mr . Daya Mutunhu who passed away in 1974 . Dr . Chuks Okpaluba continued as Head of the Unit from 1974 to 1978 and also lectured on English Legal Systems . Dr . Okpaluba was assisted by Dr . Francis Alexis QC ( former Attorney-General of Grenada , and a former UWI Senior Lecturer in Law ) for two years and , who was nicknamed the “ workhorse ” by past students . Interestingly , Dr . Alexis lectured on Criminal Law and also attended the Hugh Wooding Law School , as he attained his doctorate before completing his L . E . C ( this leaves us with little doubt as to why this name was chosen for him !).
Subsequently , Mr . Endell Thomas came from Barbados in 1978 and was assisted by Mr . Greg Christie ( currently Contractor General of Jamaica ). During Mr . Thomas ’ period of leave to Canada during 1981 and 1982 , Mr . Michael Castagne headed the Department at St . Augustine . Notably , the eminent Constitutional Law and Human Rights scholar Ms . Margaret De Merieux , lectured at the Faculty for a brief period . Professor Andrew Burgess , now a Court of Appeal Justice in Barbados was also a part of the staff during the 1980 ’ s . Mr . Thomas retired in 1996 , and Senior Lecturer John Jeremie SC who came in from 1989 , took on the mantle of administering and lecturing to this present time . However , he was seconded on two occasions – first in 2003-2005 to take the position of Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and in 2008- 2009 as High Commissioner to London and 2009-2010 again as Attorney General . During his absence , Mr . Douglas Mendes SC who joined the staff in 1996 was responsible for the day to day running of the Unit .
In more recent times , the first year of the LLB programme has been taught by lecturers familiar to most , if not all of us . These include Mr . Mendes who lectured on Constitutional Law , Law and Legal Systems and the Legal Methods course . Mr . Fyard Hosein SC has lectured courses such as Law of Tort , Constitutional Law and Legal Methods , Research and Writing . The Contract Law I and Criminal Law I and II courses continue to be lectured by Mr . Frederick Gilkes .
However , the provision of only the first year of the LLB programme at St . Augustine and Mona could not meet the great demand for undergraduate legal education in the these territories . This heralded a movement towards providing a full-fledged Faculty of Law , one which seeks to serve the ever growing need for persons with legal training and education in these territories . In Jamaica , at the Mona campus , the LLB programme , headed by Deputy Dean Dr . Derrick McKoy , has been in operation for the past three years in a state of the art building .
In Trinidad & Tobago , the then government decided in January 2010 to expand the Faculty of Law at UWI , St . Augustine campus . Minister of Science , Technology and Tertiary Education ( at the time ) Christine Kangaloo stated that the Faculty would be increasing its student intake due to the overwhelming demand for places by Trinidad and Tobago nationals . In 2009 there were seventeen hundred ( 1700 ) applications for admission and only one hundred and twenty-four ( 124 ) spaces available for the LLB program .
Students can now register for the full LLB programme at St Augustine where a building to house the new Faculty has been constructed . On April 27 th 2012 , the University Council passed an ordinance which took effect on the 1st August 2012 to create a full Faculty of Law at the St . Augustine Campus . The faculty is now headed by its first Dean , Dr . Kusha Haraksingh .
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