Nine­ty-four stu­dents of the In­sti­tute of Law and Aca­d­e­m­ic Stud­ies (ILAS) who ob­tained LLB de­grees have grad­u­at­ed from the in­sti­tu­tion this year. Seema Kadir placed first in Pub­lic Law ex­am and was named among the top ten in the world in Crim­i­nal Law. Kimya Valen­tine, mean­while, ob­tained three first-class marks in Year 1.

High pass rates were achieved for Ju­rispru­dence-97 per cent, Tort Law-83 per cent, EU & Hu­man Rights-82 per cent, Ev­i­dence -84 per cent, Com­pa­ny Law-90per cent. 12 stu­dents were award­ed for Aca­d­e­m­ic Ex­cel­lence on their com­ple­tion of the LLB—Shen­nille Boban, Luke Ra­jack, Isa Dook­ie, Fela Julien, David Subero, Sheneze Al­bert, Vit­thal Seep­er­sad, Melis­sa Sinanan-Ali, Aleeah Greenidge, Ran­dall Karim, Tra­cie Spencer, and Le­sha Singh. Aleeah Greenidge was the vale­dic­to­ri­an and Most Out­stand­ing stu­dent over­all.

Ran­dall Karim re­ceived awards for Best Per­for­mance in his Dis­ser­ta­tion and Re­search and De­vel­op­ment. Spe­cial Awards for De­bat­ing Ex­cel­lence were pre­sent­ed to Corene Pro­cope, Re­mond Bonne-Smith, and Syd­ney Ri­ley. Best per­for­mances Year 1 awardees are Seema Kadir and Nicholas Em­manuel Ger­vais. Fela Julien was award­ed for Out­stand­ing fi­nal-year per­for­mance. Isa Dook­ie re­ceived a spe­cial award for Lead­er­ship and Crit­i­cal think­ing, while Omar Mo­hammed Re­ceived the award for ILAS Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Pa­tri­ot Award on be­half of Col­in Robin­son and CAISO. Awards were giv­en for the top stu­dents in in­di­vid­ual sub­ject ar­eas.

The Ho­n­ourable Madame Jus­tice Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mor­er, High Court Judge, Supreme Court of T&T was present at the cer­e­mo­ny and de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress.