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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.