TWENTY-one-year old Eleanor Dolores Maria Luckhoo was last Thursday admitted to the Guyana Bar to practise her profession here. Senior Counsel Robin Stoby, S.C., made the presentation of the young lawyer before Chief Justice Ian Chang, S.C. Mr. Stoby said the new advent is the only daughter of Mr. Edward Alexander Luckhoo, S.C., and Mrs. Jackie Luckhoo.
And speaking about the petitioner’s academic career, Mr. Stoby explained that Ms. Luckhoo began her stellar rise in the world of academia at the prestigious St Margaret’s Primary School on Camp Street, before proceeding to Queen’s College in 1995 where she was successful in attaining nine subjects at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations (all Grade Ones).
She then took her Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination in Chemistry where again she received Grade 1 in Units I and II.
Later, she took the Edexcel London Examinations in Mathematics and English Literature obtaining Grade B in both.
Following her successful secondary education Ms. Luckhoo read for the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a minor in English (cum laude at the University of Miami between the years 2002 and 2006).
She took a break from studies between the years 2006-2010 before taking up employment with the Bank of Nova Scotia as a Senior Accounting Clerk. She left the bank in 2010 to read for the LLB degree at the University of Guyana. There, she obtained the degree with distinction in 2013, walking away with the Pro Chancellor’s Medal (Best Graduating Law Student) and the Ann Blue Award (Best Second Year Law Student).
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Mr. Stoby went on to say that Ms. Luckhoo’s advent to the School of Law at the Hugh Wooding Law School clearly showed where she was headed. The two years spent there brought her a rich haul of prizes.
Apart from obtaining the Certificate of Merit, she also won nine academic awards, including – Most Outstanding Student over two years; Chairman’s prize’ (in the fields of Evidence & Forensic Medicine, Remedies, Civil Procedure & Practice II); The Guyana Government Prize (for the Best Performance by a student from Guyana. So prodigious was her academic performance at the law school that she only left three prizes to be won by anyone else.
Ms. Luckhoo’s in-service training was conducted at the law firm of Luckhoo & Luckhoo, Legal Practitioners during June 2014 and August 2014, where she intends to join in practice.
Luckhoo & Luckhoo is one of the oldest law firms in this country. Its pedigree goes back several decades when the Halls of Justice rang with the sublime submissions of E.V. Luckhoo, Q.C., and the oratorical rhetoric of Sir Lionel Luckhoo, Q.C., both Ms. Luckhoo’s great uncles.
Her great aunt Ena Luckhoo was revered as the consumers’ solicitor, to say nothing of the forensic adeptness and skill of Lloyd Luckhoo, Q.C. – her grandfather. Her father Edward Luckhoo, S.C., no sloth in the conduct of any legal matter is often referred to as “the lawyer’s lawyer” not only for the thoroughness of his case preparation but also for his incisive cross-examination.
In moving the admission of the new lawyer, Mr. Stoby reminded that the name Eleanor had the meaning ‘Light of God’ or ‘Shining Light’.
Edward Luckhoo, the proud father, said that two distinguished lawyers – Mr. Rex McKay, S.C., and Mr. Robin Stoby, S.C., had been very helpful to his daughter.
Chief Justice Chang congratulated Ms. Luckhoo on her achievements and wished her continued success.
He was loud in his praise for the Luckhoo family and referred to Mr. Edward Luckhoo as having one of the most eloquent legal minds in the Caribbean.
After taking the oath Ms. Luckhoo thanked her parents, her relatives, her tutors and all those who had been helpful to her.

By George Barclay