Faculty

Academic and Senior Administrative Staff

Associate Tutors

  • The Hon. Mr. Justice F.A. Smith, CD
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice C. Dennis Morrison, QC
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice Paul Harrison, OJ (Ret’d)
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice Bryan Sykes
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice Karl Harrison
  • The Hon. Ms. Ingrid Mangatal
  • Ms. Paula Llewellyn, CD, QC
  • Mr. Kent Pantry, CD, QC
  • The Hon. Micheal Hylton, OJ, QC
  • Miss Hilary Phillips, QC
  • Mrs. Vinette Graham Allen
  • Miss Nancy Anderson
  • Mr. Kirk Anderson
  • Mr. Courtney Bailey
  • Mr. Keith Bishop
  • Dr. Garfield Blake
  • Ms. Saverna Chambers
  • Mrs. Michèle Champagnie
  • Mr. Warren Clark Cousins
  • Ms. Lilieth C. Deacon
  • Ms. Katherine Denbow
  • Ms. Sharon Donaldson
  • Mr. Andre Earle
  • Mr. Howard Facey
  • Mrs. Natalie Farrell-Ross
  • Mr. Robert Fletcher
  • Mr. Dave Garcia
  • Mr. John Givans
  • Mr. Ravil Golding
  • Mr. Herbert Grant
  • Mrs. K. Denise Henry James
  • Mrs. Denise Kitson
  • Mr. Alvin Lambert
  • Miss Carlene Larmond
  • Mrs. Gloria Langrin
  • Mr. Geoffrey Madden
  • Mr. Maurice Manning
  • Mr. Garth McBean
  • Miss Sherry-Ann McGregor
  • Mrs. Sandra Minott-Phillips
  • Mrs. Janet Morrison
  • Ms. Stephanie Orr
  • Miss Lisa Palmer
  • Mrs. Carolyn Reid-Cameron
  • Mr. Michael Roofe
  • Mrs. Jacqueline Samuels-Brown
  • Mrs. Andrea Scarlett-Lozer
  • Mrs. Marjorie Shaw-Currie
  • Mr. Richard Small
  • Mr. Jermaine Spence
  • Miss Yolande Whitely
  • Mr. Ian Wilkinson
  • Mr. Clyde Williams
  • Ms. Maliaca Wong

Non-academic Staff

  • Mrs. Heather Aarons, Accounting Officer
  • Mr. Mustafa Ajab, Machine Operator
  • Miss. Rosemarie Antiga, Library Assistant I
  • Ms. Jose Bailey, Administrative Assistant II
  • Mrs. Beverley Biggs, Library Assistant I
  • Miss. Carol Brown, Library Assistant I
  • Mrs. Judy Chin See, Executive Secretary
  • Miss Irene Clarke, Editorial Assistant
  • Mr. Leon Clarke, Senior Office Attendant
  • Miss Norene Clemetson, Libray Assistant II
  • Mrs. Eunice Edwards, Office Attendant
  • Miss Dawn Evans, Senior Secretary
  • Mrs. Juliet Fellows, Asst. Administrator, Legal Aid Clinic
  • Miss Madget Green, Prop, Maintenance & Acquisitions Officer
  • Mrs. Charmaine Hylton, Telephone Operator/Receptionist
  • Mr. Garfield Jackson, Machine Operator/Driver
  • Miss. Georgette Johnson, Senior Secretary
  • Mrs. Sandra Jones, Exec. Secretary to the Registrar
  • Mrs. Rochelle Lee, Executive Secretary
  • Miss. Donna Lindo, Library Attendant
  • Miss. Maureen Lindo, Senior Exec. Sec. to the Principal
  • Mrs. Evadne Mahon, Office Attendant
  • Miss. Michelle Miller, Senior Secretary
  • Mr. Delroy Pinto, Machine Operator
  • Mrs. Rhona Rookwood, Supervisor - Registry
  • Mrs. Angela Thompson, Senior Sec. to SeniorTutor
  • Lisa Vernon, Library Assistant III
  • Barbara Waul, Senior Secretary
  • Andrew Walker, Chief Office Attendant,
  • Charmaine Wellington, Library Assistant III

Principal

Dr. Stephen Vasciannie holds First-Class Honours degrees from the Universities of the West Indies, Oxford and Cambridge. He was called to the New York Bar in 1990 and the Jamaican Bar five years later. He completed the D. Phil. in International Law at the University of Oxford in 1988.

Dr. Vasciannie worked as a Research Fellow at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, as an associate at the Wall Street Law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, and as a Legal Advisor at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, before joining the staff of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 1994. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of International Law at the UWI, Mona. At the UWI, he received several awards, including the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and various Principal’s Awards for outstanding research. He has published three books and more than forty journal articles or book chapters.

Dr. Vasciannie worked for four years as a Deputy Solicitor-General in the Attorney General’s Chambers, Jamaica. He has been Chairman of the Air Policy Committee of the Jamaican Government, Chairman of the Caribbean Conference on Maritime Delineation, and a member of the Inter-American Judicial Committee. He has also served as a member of the Board of the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited and as Chairman of the Board of Scotia DBG Investments. In 2006, he was elected to serve for five years on the United Nations International Law Commission.

Senior Tutor I

Ms. O.A.Carol Aina was admitted to practise in England in 1988 and to the Jamaican Bar in 1995.

Ms Aina was a partner in the law firm of Ackroyd & Aina in London She specialized in civil litigation and family law. She was a member of the Law Society Children Panel. She also acted as an advisor to the Family Rights Group on a research project on the experience of families in compulsory child care proceedings in the United Kingdom. She was a lecturer in their Child Care Law and Practice Courses in 1991 and1992 when the Children Act 1991 was implemented.

In 1995, Ms Aina returned to Jamaica and joined the litigation department of the law firm of DunnCox. She remains a Consultant to the firm.

Ms Aina was appointed as the Course Director for Civil Procedure & Practice 1 at the Norman Manley Law School in September 1997. She became an active member of both the Civil Procedure and Family Committee of the Jamaican Bar Association. She was a member of the sub-committee appointed by the Rules Committee of Jamaica to prepare the Civil Procedure Rules for Jamaica. She has chaired and presented papers on Civil Procedure to -

Regional Bar Associations of Jamaica
Titles Office of Jamaica
Fair Trading Commission of Jamaica
ENACT( Environmental Action Programme)
Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM
Attorney General’s Chambers.

Ms Aina was appointed as a Consultant to the CARICOM Legislative Drafting Facility in 2004, to prepare draft rules for the Caribbean Court of Justice.

In 2005-2006 while on Sabbatical from the law school, Miss Aina was appointed as an Adjunct Professor and as the Caribbean Law Programme Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Shepard Broad Law Centre at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Miss Aina acted as Principal of the Norman Manley Law School from September 1, 2006 to July 2008. She is now the Senior Tutor with responsibility for coordinating the entire teaching programme and monitoring the performance of students at the Law School.

Director, Legal Aid Clinic

Mr. Maurice Saunders has been the Director of the Legal Aid Clinic at the Norman Manley Law School since 1991. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of The West Indies. He is a Council member of the Jamaican Bar Association; Member of the Criminal Law & Practice Committee, Constitutional Law Committee and Legal Aid Committee of the Bar Association; Member of the Advocates Association of Jamaica; Member of the Board of Directors, Legal Aid Council; Member and Acting Coordinator, Amnesty International (Jamaica Section); Member, Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights and Member, Board of Directors of Kingston Legal Aid Clinic.

Mr. Saunders'' work experiences include: Clerk of Courts - Supreme Court of Jamaica; Deputy Registrar (Acting) - Supreme Court of Jamaica, 1976-77; Crown Counsel - Attorney General''s Chambers 1978 - 81; Acting Resident Magistrate for St. Andrew, 1981; Tutor, Norman Manley Law School, 1981 - 1990.

Mr. Saunders, whose personal motto is, to continue to struggle and to try again for Christ and for good, is committed to service in educational development. He is a member of the Jamaica College Old Boys Association; Board Member of St. Theresa''s Preparatory School; Member of the Board of Directors of Holy Trinity Comprehensive High School. He worships at the Sts Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church where he is a member of the Men''s League.

Senior Tutor II

Mr. George Belnavis who tutors at the Legal Aid Clinic is the Senior Tutor II at the Norman Manley Law School. His history in the legal profession reads as follows:

1970-1973 University of the West Indies - LL.B. (Hons)
1973-1975 Norman Manley Law School - Certificate of Legal Education.
1975-1978 Clerk of the Courts for the parishes of Clarendon, Saint Mary, Saint Andrew, Kingston
1978-1980 Crown Counsel - Office of the Director of Public Prosecution
1980-1983 Associate, Abendana and Abendana Attorneys at Law, Saint Mary
1983-1991 Engaged in private practice - active in criminal law, civil law, family law, succession law, law of tort, law of contact and labour law
1991- Tutor, Legal Aid Clinic - advises students and members of the public on civil, criminal, labour, succession and conveyancing law.

Mr. Belnavis who was appointed Senior Tutor II in March, 2009 is a member of the Jamaica Bar Association and the Advocates Association, the Norman Manley Law School representative to the Council of Legal Education, and the Norman Manley Law School representative to West Indies Group of University Teachers.

Tutor

Mr. Norman Davis, Tutor

Norman Davis has been a full-time Tutor at the Norman Manley Law School since 2000. He took the LL.B degree from the University of the West Indies in 1982, and the Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School two years later. Norman Davis worked at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for 2 years, rising to the level of Acting Crown Counsel. He has also worked in the litigation department at the law firm of Myers, Fletcher and Gordon, and thereafter, went into private practice. His professional experience, covering broad areas of criminal and civil practice, has placed him in good stead to teach Evidence and Advocacy at the Law School. Mr. Davis, who will be on Sabbatical Leave from the Law School for the Academic Year 2009/2010, is normally in charge of the mock trials for the course on Advocacy II, and usually supervises the Norman Manley Law School team for the Margaret Forte Mooting Competition among the three Commonwealth Caribbean Law Schools

Tutor

Ms. Audrey Welds, Tutor

Mrs. Audrey Welds joined the staff of the Norman Manley Law School as a Tutor in 2007. Mrs. Welds took the Jamaica (Special) Scholarship in 1977, and obtained First Class Honours in the LL.B at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She obtained the Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School in 1982, and completed the LL.M at King's College, London University, on a Commonwealth Scholarship in the following year. Mrs. Welds has practised law as an Associate at the law firm of Rattray, Patterson, Rattray, in the Legal and Corporate Secretarial Department of the National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica, and in the Legal and Corporate Secretarial Department of the Mutual Security Bank. Between 1994 and 2003, she was a partner in the Commercial Law Department at DunnCox, and worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Management Studies from 2003 to 2007. At the Norman Manley Law School, Mrs. Welds is the Course Director for the Law of Associations, and normally conducts tutorials in Ethics, Rights and Obligations of the Legal Profession. She has published articles in the Global Banking and Financial Policy Review, in 1999 and 2001, on deposit insurance and the regulatory framework for the Jamaican financial sector, and in the West Indian Law Journal in 2009 on "The Criminalization of Breaches of Corporate Duties -- Policy Considerations and Caribbean Companies Legislation". In keeping with her interest in corporate and commercial law, ethics, banking and finance and taxation, Mrs. Welds has also published several articles on legal topics in Jamaica's Financial Gleaner.

Librarian

Mr. Byron Palmer, Librarian

Byron Palmer has been the Librarian of the Norman Manley Law School since 2007. He previously worked with the National Library of Jamaica, for 23 years, where he was Information Specialist with the Library Extension Services Dept; Head of Cataloguing Dept; Head of the Automated Systems Department; Information Network Manager with responsibility for the development and computerization of the National Information System, after which he was promoted to Deputy Director. He lectured on a part time basis at the Dept. of Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies (UWI), 2004 – 2007.

He holds a Master’s degree as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Library Studies from the University of the West Indies. He also holds a BA, with honours, from Long Island University, New York, in philosophy with a minor in macroeconomics. He has a professional Certificate in Computer Networks Engineering from the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTECH), where he had previously done studies in programming languages when it was College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST).

Mr. Palmer, a former president (2003) of the Library and Information Association of Jamaica (LIAJA), worships at the Edgewater Baptist Church and is a member of the Baptist Brotherhood.

Assistant Registrar

Ms. Beverley Phillips has been employed as Assistant Registrar of the Norman Manley Law School (Council of Legal Education), Mona Campus, (Jamaica) since 1991, and was previously employed by The University of the West Indies in various Administrative capacities.

She established the Placement Bureau in 1994/1995, and has facilitated her brain-child - the “Protocol and Professional Etiquette Programme” at NMLS since 1999/2000 (gratis). Moreover, she does Event Planning; and has been a Counsellor at the Law School since 1998.

She graduated from The UWI (Mona Campus) with the M.Sc. Degree in Government by thesis (specializing in Public Administration); and the B.A. (Hons.) in Social Sciences/History. She has attained numerous certificates including the Certificate in Professional Make-up Artistry (Distinction).

Ms. Phillips qualified as an International Protocol and Corporate Etiquette Consultant at the prestigious Protocol School of Washington (USA). She has trained under Merrick Needham, OD, MVO, Protocol and Logistics Consultant (Jamaica), Ambassador Elinor Phillips Sherlock, former Jamaican Ambassador to Cuba /Chief of State Protocol, OPM, Jamaica, and world-renowned Grantley McIntyre, Image/Make-up Consultant to Katie Courie, CBS-TV Anchorwoman (USA).

A JP for St. Andrew, her professional associations include National Résumé Writers’ Association - USA (NWRA) and Lay Magistrates’ Association, St.Andrew, Jamaica.

An aficionado of Genealogical Research, Family Historiography, Event Planning and Fund-raising: her two books “The Heron Intrigue: 1066-present - Vols. 1- 4” and “The House that Ortanique Built: The Life of David Daniel Phillips – Jamaican Church Leader, Politician, Senior Lay Magistrate and Agricultural Leader: 1865-1955” will be published in 2010

Assistant Librarian

Miss Jeanne Slowe started her career in librarianship at the National Library, Georgetown, Guyana (formerly the Carnegie Free Library).

In 1977, she joined the staff of the Norman Manley law School as Senior Library Assistant after graduating with a B.A. in Library Studies from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In 1986 she was awarded an OAS Fellowship which enabled her to graduate with the Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) from Pratt Institute, New York. She was later appointed Assistant Librarian at the Law School.

In 2002 she completed studies for the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London and subsequently gained the Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School in 2007. She was admitted to practice in Jamaica in the same year.

Miss Slowe served as Secretary of the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL) from 1997 – 2000 and editor of the Association’s Bulletin from 1988 – 1990.

Ms. Fara Brown, Tutor

Tutor

Ms. Eulalie Greenaway, Tutor

Eulalie Greenaway holds a BA degree from the University of the West Indies, a First-Class Honours degree in law from the same institution, an MBA in International Business and International Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, and the Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School. Ms. Greenaway has worked as the Registrar-General, and the Registrar of Companies, Trademarks & Patents, in the Government of Montserrat, and as a Magistrate in that territory. She has also been Senior Associate at Chancery Chambers in Barbados, and has worked as an Adjunct Lecturer and Course Director in Company Law and the Law of Corporate Insolvency for the LLB programme in the Faculty of Law, UWI, Cave Hill,Barbados. Ms. Greenaway's areas of interest are Corporate and Commerical Law,Insolvency and Finance Law, and Property Law. In keeping with these interests, Ms. Greenaway teaches in the Advanced Corporate Insolvency Law and Law of Corporate Finance courses in the LLM programme at the UWI, and is a member of the Jamaica Insolvency Law Revision Committee.

Mr. Peter Carson, Senior Tutor II

Tutor

Mr. Terrence Williams joins the law school after 20 years of practice as counsel in Jamaica and the Virgin Islands (UK) as well as being lead counsel in a handful of cases at the Privy Council. He is a graduate of the School’s class of 1990 having completed his law degree at UWI, Cave Hill in 1988.

After graduation Mr Williams served as a public prosecutor in Jamaica’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) rising to the position of Assistant DPP. Thereafter there was a five-year stint in private practice followed by 10 years in the Virgin Islands. Mr Williams was the first DPP of the Virgin Islands.

Senior Tutor Emerita

Miss Dorcas White, the Course Director for the Law of Remedies graduated from the University of the West Indies Faculty of Law with first class honors in 1974. She was invited to join the teaching staff the same year as Assistant Lecturer and was accorded accelerated promotion to Lecturer, and subsequently appointed Senior Lecturer on tenure in 1981

In 1979 Miss White graduated from the Norman Manley and was invited to join the staff of the Norman Manley Law School in 1982. In 2003 she was promoted to Senior Tutor II. In 2007, she retired from full time teaching and was appointed Associate Tutor/Course Director for the Law of Remedies. A trained teacher, she graduated from the Leeward Islands Teacher Training College with Distinction. The Council of Legal Education named Miss White as Senior Tutor Emerita of the Norman Manley Law School in September 2009.

Her publications include one book and several articles in regional and international journals. An article, Some Problems of a Hybrid Legal System: A Case Study of St. Luca published in International and Comparative Law Quarter, volume 30, Issue 04 (1981) was cited before and applied by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Parry Husband v Warefact (PC#74 2001).

Miss White is a member of the Jamaica Bar Association and was a member of the Family Law Committee (Jamaica) 1976 - 1989. In 2008, she received Professor George Irish Award for outstanding contribution to Education. In 2008 during the 60th anniversary celebrations of the University of the West Indies was designated an Outstanding Graduate of the U.W.I