Faculty

Academic and Senior Administrative Staff

  • Principal: Mr. Keith Sobion, LL.B
  • Senior Tutor: Mr. Rambarran Mangal, M.A. Dip in Legislative Drafting
  • Senior Tutor II: Miss Dorcas White, LL.B
  • Senior Tutor II: Mr. Peter Carson B.A. LL.B. Dip in Legislative Drafting
  • Director, Legal Aid Clinic: Mr. Maurice Saunders LL.B
  • Tutor: Mr. George Belnavis LL.B
  • Tutor: Ms. Farah Brown LL.B
  • Tutor: Ms. Carol Aina B.A.
  • Tutor: Mr. Norman Davis LL.B.
  • Tutor: Ms. Eulalie Greenaway LL.B. M.Sc. B.A.
  • Registrar: Mr. Michael Martin B.Sc.Econ
  • Assistant Registrar: Ms. Beverley Phillips, M.Sc. B.A.
  • Administrator Legal Aid Clinic: Ms. Pearline Dove, LL.B. B Sc.
  • Librarian: Mrs. Yvonne Lawrence M.L.S. M.C.L.I.P.
  • Assistant Librarian: Ms. Jeanne Slowe M.S. LL.B B.A.

Associate Tutors

  • The Hon. Mr. Justice L. Ellis
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice F.A. Smith
  • The Hon. Mr. Justice B. Sykes
  • Mr. Dennis Morrison Q.C.
  • Mr. K. Pantry Q.C.
  • Ms. Hilary Phillips Q.C.
  • Prof. Stephen Vasciannie
  • Miss Nancy Anderson
  • Dr. Garfield Blake
  • Mr. W. Clark Cousins
  • Ms. Sharon Donaldson
  • Miss Carol Edwards
  • Mr. Howard Facey
  • Mrs. Natalie Farrell-Ross
  • Mr. Dave Garcia
  • Mr. John Givans
  • Mr. Ravil Golding
  • Mr. Herbert Grant
  • Mrs. Denise Henry-James
  • Mrs. Denise Kitson
  • Mr. Alvin Lambert
  • Mrs. Gloria Langrin
  • Ms. Shelly Leon
  • Miss Paula Llewelyn
  • Mr. Geoff Madden
  • Mr. Garth McBean
  • Mr. Maurice Mannning
  • Mrs. Sandra Minott-Phillips
  • Mr. Gordon Robinson
  • Mr. Michael Roofe
  • Mrs. Jacqueline Samuels-Brown
  • Ms. Yolande Whitely
  • Mr. Ian Wilkinson

Principal

Mr. Keith Stanford P. Sobion is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Barbados)and the Hugh Wooding Law School (Trinidad & Tobago)and a former Vice-President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association.

His major areas of legal practice were: Company law, Commercial contracts, Banking, Shipping and Admiralty, Investment Financing and Joint Ventures, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil litigation.

He was an Assistant Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago in 1974 and Assistant Tutor/Course Director at Hugh Wooding Law School from 1975-1990. He was appointed Principal of the Norman Manley Law School in 1996 and Adjunct Professor of Florida Coastal School of Law from 2001 to date. He has received several Meritorious Service Awards from the Council of Legal Education and has been a consultant to CARICOM on the Caribbean Court of Justice since 2002.

Senior Tutor

Mr. Rambarran Mangal M.A. Attorney-at-law was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in England in 1969 and was awarded a Certificate in Legislative Drafting at Ottawa University in 1974. He holds the M.A. degree in Business law. In 1983 he transferred over to become a solicitor.

Mr. Mangal held the positions of State Counsel and Principal Parliamentary Counsel in Guyana, Senior Sub-Editor with Butterworths & Co., the legal publisher, and Senior Legal Executive with the firm of Habershom Watts & Co. before accepting a position with the Jamaican Government in 1983. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Parliamentary Counsel.

In 1988 he joined the Norman Manley Law School and is now the Senior Tutor with responsibility for co-ordinating the entire teaching programme and monitoring the performance of students at the Law School. He teaches Ethics, Rights and Obligations of the Legal Profession, Law of Associations, Client Interviewing, Debating and Legal Drafting and Interpretation and is a member of the Admissions Board of the Council of Legal Education. He was involved in training workshops in law for the Jamaica Police Federation and the medical profession.

He was a senior part-time lecturer in business law and company law at the Department of Management Studies of the University of the West Indies and now lectures at the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), the Justice Training Institute, the University of the West Indies Distance Teaching programme (UWIDITE), and is an examiner in Business Law at the University of the West Indies.

His publications include - An Introduction to Company Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean - several papers and presentations made at seminars and conferences on law.

He was called to the Bar in Guyana and Jamaica and is a Solicitor in England.

Director, Legal Aid Clinic

Mr. Maurice Saunders is the Director of the Legal Aid Clinic at the Norman Manley Law School. 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 Co-ordinator, Amnesty International (Jamaica Section); Member, Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights and Member, Board of Directors of Kingston Legal Aid Clinic