JAMELA  A. ALI

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Legal services offered include Mining Law & Agreements, Properties, Trademarks, Adoption of Children, Divorces, Probates of Wills and Administration, Money Claims, Formation of Companies, Mediation and Real Estate.

 

Research, Articles, Speeches, Letters by Ms. Jamela A. Ali LL.B. (Hons.) (UWI), LL.M. (Legislative Drafting) (UWI)

Ms. Jamela A. Ali has written on Constitutional law, Administrative Law - Duty to Give Reasons, Legislative Drafting, Law Revision, Legal Practitioners Committee (LPC), Adoption and other legal matters. Her writings have been published in the New Guyana Bar Review, the Caribbean Law Review, Guyana Chronicle, Stabroek News newspapers, the Al Bayan and on websites.

She has also delivered speeches on Constitutional Reform in Guyana, Parliament, Legislative Drafting, Mediation and the Judicial/Legal Process and Family and Matrimonial laws relating to Children and Women.

 

WEBSITE for MIG 2012 - arranged contents of webpages and approved design.

Financial Sustainability Work Plan, Expenses & Revenue worksheet 2012 and wrote Work Plan Report 2012 for MIG

STRATEGIC PLAN - Reviewed and contributed to the Strategic Plan designed for the Mediation Institute of Guyana Inc. - 2010

LL.M. RESEARCH PAPER

THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL AND LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING IN GUYANA: A Critique 1997.

 

ARTICLES

DUTY TO GIVE REASONS: THE WAY FORWARD Administrative Law, written in 1998 and updated in 2008 - The New Guyana Bar Review Volume 2 Issue 1: May 2008 (The Guyana Bar Association publication). see Kaieteur News article

AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIATION and the benefits of Mediation, 2007.The New Guyana Bar Review Volume 2 Issue 1: May 2008.

GUYANA - A REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PROCESS Caribbean Law Review  - University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados publication, 2003.

The Internet and the Law Online when the internet was in its fledging stage in Guyana 1999.

DELEGATED LEGISLATION  Administrative Law, Cave Hill, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 1997.

 

SPEECHES

26 March 2012 - Presentation to Lions of Georgetown at Durban Park, Georgetown on Mediation and the Legal Process.

9 March 2012 - Presentation in aid of Social Work Week hosted by Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers (GAPSW) under the theme "The Impact of Social Work in an ever changing Society."

25 November 2011 - Speech and participation in Panel Discussion for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women hosted by Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund under the theme "Commit Act & Demand: We can Stop Violence Against Women."

28 October 2011 - delivered the Welcome Speech at the Mediation Forum under the theme "Embracing the Potential of Mediation" hosted by the Mediation Institute of Guyana Inc. (MIG) at Oceanview Hotel, Guyana.

28 October 2011 - delivered a speech on "The Process of Mediation and the Benefits" at the Mediation Forum under the theme "Embracing the Potential of Mediation" hosted by the Mediation Institute of Guyana Inc. (MIG) at Oceanview Hotel, Guyana.

5 June 2011, Division of Property, Making Wills, Mediation and other matters on behalf of Nacosa at the Enmore Masjid, East Coast Demerara, Guyana.

11 July 2010, Wills and Powers of Attorney on behalf of Nacosa at the Bath Jama Masjid, West Coast Berbice, Guyana

30 June 2010, “Benefits of Mediation and the Judicial Process in Guyana ” at a Public Forum on Alternative Dispute Resolution, on behalf of GAWL in Guyana.

2009 - Laws relating to Custody, Adoption, Maintenance and Divorce at Mae's Secondary School, Georgetown to Fourth & Fifth form students.

MEDIATION AND JUDICIAL/LEGAL PROCESS at Suddie Supreme Court, Essequibo, Guyana, 2008.

MEDIATION AND JUDICIAL/LEGAL PROCESS at New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana, 2008.

An edited version of the speech on Mediation was published under the title AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIATION in The New Guyana Bar Review Volume 2 Issue 1: May 2008 (A Guyana Bar Association publication).

GUYANA PARLIAMENT: A DEMOCRACY OR A MOCKERY at the second Law Conference of the GBA, 2003 which was also well received and touted as a resounding success.

GUYANA - A REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PROCESS at the first Law Conference of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) 2002.

2003 - The speech was so well received that it was published under the title A REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PROCESS IN GUYANA Caribbean Law Review  -  a University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados publication.   

2007 -Guyana Chronicle newspaper also referred to the speech. (see guyanachronicle.com courts page of 21 November 2007)

1998 - Speeches on FAMILY LAWS RELATING TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN hosted by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in Bartica and Berbice, Guyana. 

PUBLISHED LETTERS

Letters written by Jamela A. Ali and published in the Guyana Chronicle and Stabroek News daily newspapers during the period 2000 to 2002.

  1. Guyana Election law amendment

  2. Adoption of Children in Guyana

  3. Guyana Gold Board

  4. Medical Council of Guyana

  5. Guyana - Legislative Drafting & Constitutional Reform

  6. Guyana Ester Perreira elections case (Al-Bayan publication)

  7. Guyana - Law Revision

  8. Guyana Legal Practitioners’ Committee

  9. Reply to letter from Mr. Vandeyar on Local Government Commission

 

 

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