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Charles S. Ramson called to Bar of England
Charles S. Ramson
A true son of Guyana’s soil, Charles S. Ramson was recently admitted as a Barrister-at-law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, for the Bar of England and Wales.
The Queen’s College ‘old boy’ is the son of Justice of Appeal, Charles R. Ramson S.C. (former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs) and Leila Ramson, Chairman of the Teaching Service Commission.
The young Ramson’s call to the bar was held on July 29 last at a ceremony which saw the attendance of his mother and sister, Shakhti Ramson.
Ramson attended the Nottingham Law School and obtained a ‘Very Competent’ Grade Certificate, which is an assessment of 70 per cent.
According to a release, Ramson’s performance at Law school was extremely outstanding.
It was noted that more than 90 per cent of the schools’ Bar students possessed at least an Upper Second Class Honours Degree.
However, reports are that about 60 per cent of the students including some from the Oxford and Cambridge Universities were required to re-sit at least one examination.
In 2006, the high achiever obtained a first class honours degree in Law at the University of Buckingham and is arguably the second or third Guyanese to have ever gained such distinction in Law at the university.
As a result, he was awarded the Intellectual Property Prize and the Merit Prize for “good all-round performance academically and also for making an important contribution to the life of the university.”
Ramson has also completed his masters in International and Commercial Law at the University of Buckingham in England where he was on a partial scholarship.
During his course of study in England, he was elected the President of the Students’ Union and the Secretary of the International Society.
He was also the Student Assistant Editor of the Denning Law Journal, a member of the Economist Magazine Club, Captain of the university’s cricket team, a member of the law school’s basketball team, and played regularly for Buckingham Town’s First Division Cricket Team.
For four successive years he played in the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Finals, which is scheduled for July each year.
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