The Council of Legal Education was created by an Agreement signed in 1971 by Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana. The Council was established in order to provide training in the Region (rather than in Britain) for Lawyers wishing to practise in our Region. Its establishment came one year following that of the UWI Faculty of Law, which has departments on each of the University’s three campuses. The CLE is governed by a Council, which meets annually.