Robinson-Regis gets her practising certificate

ATTORNEY GENERAL Camille Robinson-Regis's section 24 application for a practising certificate has been granted by a High Court judge.

The application was filed with the Registrar of the Supreme Court by attorney Zelica Haynes-Soo Hon and Robinson-Regis told Newsday on March 24, it was granted in chambers.

“I am now awaiting receipt of an e-mail from the court with my practising certificate sometime this week,” Robinson-Regis told Newsday on March 24.

Robinson-Regis, who was sworn in as Attorney General on March 17, admitted she was a non-practising member after she stopped paying her subscription fees after 2001, when she ceased active practice.

Robinson-Regis became a minister in 2022 and previously acted as attorney general. She was called to the bar in 1985 and was once corporate secretary of National Flour Mills.

After her appointment, questions were raised about whether she is eligible to hold the position of Attorney General without a valid practising certificate.

Legal sources said while the Constitution does not explicitly mandate a practising certificate for the Attorney General, the Legal Profession Act (LPA) “appeared to suggest otherwise.”

For her to receive a practising certificate, she simply had to file a section 24 (of the LPA) application for one.