Nevisian lawyer called to the Bar
By Melissa Bryant
Reporter-SKNVibes.com
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| Barrister-at-Law Sherry-Ann Liburd |
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – NEVISIAN Barrister-at-Law Sherry-Ann Liburd was recently admitted to the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar, days after four of her colleagues had added their names to the legal fraternity.
Liburd, who hails from Gingerland, Nevis had attended the University of the West Indies (UWI) where she graduated with a first-class honours degree in Law.
She subsequently went to the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS) in Jamaica to earn her Legal Certificate of Education, and was there honoured as the Most Outstanding Student over the two-year period.
According to Liburd, it was a speech delivered by the Hon. Mark Brantley at the Prime Minister’s Award Ceremony for Students in 1998 that cemented her decision to pursue Law as a career, noting “he was so poised and eloquent and I thought that by becoming a lawyer I could gain that same confidence and charm”.
At UWI, she was a member of the St. Kitts-Nevis Student Association and the Law Society while at NMLS she was the Secretary for the National Initiative for Street Children, a committee that mentors boys of the Oxford Remedial Home.
Liburd is currently employed as an Associate at Gonsalves, Perkins and Hamel-Smith Law Chambers and intends to earn a Master’s degree within the next four to five years. ~~Adz:Right~~
In the next 10 years she anticipates that she would either be a partner at her current place of employ or have started her own law firm.
The young lawyer revealed that Civil Litigation, which includes areas such as contracts, torts and nuisance, particularly intrigues her.
“There’s this adrenaline rush you get when you know you’ve prepared hard and you’re going to get your moments to shine in court,” she said.
Liburd also expressed how “humbled” and “honoured” she was by her accomplishments, noting that they required a lot of “sacrifice and deprivation”.
“I didn’t come from a rich family and without their support and that of my community I wouldn’t have made it. There were a lot of prayers and lots of help along the way and I am so thankful to everyone who helped me, even in the littlest way,” she stated.
At her calling in ceremony Liburd pledged to practice the law with professionalism, civility and to be responsible and work hard in all aspects of the profession.
