Trinidad Tax lawyer is newest member of Guyana Bar

Apr 25, 2017 News

Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George admitted Trinidadian lawyer and tax practitioner, Gillian Wolff, to practise at the Guyana Bar. She welcomed her to Guyana and to the legal profession last Tuesday.

Trinidad Tax lawyer is newest member of Guyana Bar.

Her application for admission to the Guyana Bar was presented by Ms Jamela A. Ali, Attorney- at-Law.
Ali noted that it gave her great pleasure to move the application of her colleague Gillian Wolffe, Attorney at Law and Tax Practitioner from Port of Spain, Trinidad.
“Gillian was my classmate and study partner 27 years ago at the Hugh Wooding Law School.”
Wolff is married to Mr Gerald Mejias and is the mother of one daughter who will be graduating in June from the University of Guelph, Canada with a degree in Engineering. She also has a stepdaughter.
She attended St Joseph secondary school in Trinidad where she graduated with eight GCE O’Levels and CXC subjects. She has a Bachelors of Legal Laws (LLB) 1986; and Legal Education Certificate (LEC) 1989. That same year she was admitted to practise law in Trinidad and Tobago.
The attorney earned a post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Law 2000.
From 1990 to 1999, she was employed at the Trinidad Ministry of Finance, Inland Revenue Division where she was involved in tax laws. While there, Wolff also successfully litigated highly contentious tax cases in the Courts of T&T.
The Trinidadian Attorney was also employed as a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse Cooper, the second largest multinational professional services network in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG. Between the years 2006 – 2007, she was employed as Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago, a natural gas company as a Senior Attorney-at-Law.
Among her personal interests, the Attorney says are writing and publishing articles on topical tax issues, walking, reading, travel, cultures, gastronomy and counseling and mentoring young people. In accepting the petition, Chief Justice (Ag) George noted that Wolff has achieved much as a tax law practitioner, presently employed by an international tax, accounting and audit firm.
“As you continue your legal path of success, maybe your path may lead you to be in Guyana more often and maybe in other areas of law. Your skills can certainly be utlilised here. You already know that hard work, research coupled with honesty and integrity are the tenets of your success,” Justice George bade the newest member of the Guyana Bar
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Caption: (Second from right) Attorney-at- law, Gillian Wolff flanked by the Chief Justice and other attorneys following her admittance on Tuesday