The Hugh Wood­ing Law School in Trinidad will have a new prin­ci­pal at the helm, start­ing Au­gust 1, 2025, the Coun­cil of Le­gal Ed­u­ca­tion (CLE) has con­firmed.

An of­fi­cial re­lease from the CLE Sec­re­tari­at re­ports that Rudranath Ma­haraj—at­tor­ney at law for al­most three decades, and a trained Me­di­a­tor—has been ap­point­ed as Prin­ci­pal of the Hugh Wood­ing Law School (HWLS), ef­fec­tive Au­gust 1, 2025.

His is one of two ma­jor ap­point­ments made to re­gion­al le­gal in­sti­tu­tions, with the oth­er be­ing that of Dr. Christo­pher Mal­colm as the new Prin­ci­pal of the Nor­man Man­ley Law School in Ja­maica, with his ap­point­ment tak­ing ef­fect on Sep­tem­ber 1, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to his bio-da­ta avail­able at the Hugh Wood­ing Law School of­fi­cial web­site:

“Rudranath Ma­haraj is an at­tor­ney at law of some 28 years stand­ing and a trained Me­di­a­tor. He has been a Course Di­rec­tor at the Hugh Wood­ing Law School since 2005 and cur­rent­ly holds the po­si­tion of Se­nior Tu­tor II and Course Di­rec­tor in Pro­bate Prac­tice and Pro­ce­dure.”

“Mr. Ma­haraj was a for­mer lec­tur­er at the School of Den­tistry, Mount Hope Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex and at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies School of Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies.”

The HWLS site notes that Mr Ma­haraj al­so has been “at­tached to pub­lic sec­tor or­ga­ni­za­tions and was en­gaged as a con­sul­tant at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed. He has held sev­er­al di­rec­tor­ships in both pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor or­ga­ni­za­tions, in­clud­ing those in the en­er­gy sec­tor such as PETROTRIN and LABID­CO and in the non-en­er­gy sec­tor as well.”

The new HWLS Prin­ci­pal al­so “has served as the Chair­man of the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee of the Statu­to­ry Au­thor­i­ty Ser­vices Com­mis­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go and is a cur­rent mem­ber of the Me­di­a­tion Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”