Dana Seetahal’s murder “a tragic loss for the Legal Fraternity”
– Justice Claudette Singh
By Latoya Giles, May 5, 2014, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source
A tragic loss for the legal fraternity, is the way Justice Claudette Singh yesterday described the shocking assassination of Trinidadian Jurist Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal.
Seetahal who was a jurist for the Linden Commission of Inquiry was gunned down yesterday in Trinidad.
Justice Singh told Kaieteur News that the legal profession is now deprived following Seetahal’s death. Justice Singh remembers Seetahal as someone who had a warm personality.
She said that she had spoken recently to the Senior Counsel who was in the process of writing a second book.
“She had contacted me about some material she needed for a book she was writing,” Justice Singh told Kaieteur News. Ms Seetahal has authored a book on criminal procedure and is a columnist for the Trinidad Express.
Meanwhile, Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday told Kaieteur News that he too was indeed shocked at the tragic and brutal murder of Seetahal. Nandlall said that she was a consummate professional woman, strong and fearless in her professional pursuits.
“She was a lawyer, an academic and a politician,” Nandlall told Kaieteur News. He said that as an academic, she has made an indelible mark on lives of students at the Hugh Wooding Law School.
“Her book, Criminal Practice and Procedure in the Commonwealth Caribbean remains the only academic work on that topic in the Region,” Nandlall told Kaieteur News.
The Attorney General said that Seetahal’s work on the Linden Commission of Inquiry to investigate the tragedy which took place at Linden in July 2012 was nothing less than stellar.
“As a lawyer, she prosecuted several high profile cases in her homeland and was a great admirer of our own Doodnauth Singh( SC). I enjoyed a good professional relationship with her.”
“Her death is a tremendous loss to the legal fraternity, not only in Trinidad and Tobago, but indeed the entire Region…to her family, and the people Trinidad, I extend my deepest sympathy.”
