Jason Nathu

The Extradition Process in Trinidad and Tobago

Often confused with deportation, ‘extradition’ involves the surrender of a person by a State (such as Trinidad and Tobago) to another State or, in some…

Family, Law Made Simple

When the ‘shack’ falls down: What happens when cohabitational relationships end?

Shacking-up is a term often used in the Caribbean to describe unmarried couples who have chosen to live together. There are many legal questions that arise when…

Law Made Simple, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Anxiety, Emotions and “Court Clothes”: A Litigation Survival Guide

Courtrooms are are almost always filled with passion, emotions and drama. Litigation can be a very stressful process and very often complainants or defendants find it…

Business, Human Rights, Labour and Employment, Law Made Simple

Physical Disabilities and Employment

Ensuring that the office environment is friendly to the physically disabled, is often not a priority in boardrooms across the Caribbean. While the law with…

Continuing Legal Education, Education, Law School

What is daily life like for the disabled in Trinidad and Tobago?

Persons with disabilities face discrimination and barriers that restrict them from participating in society on an equal basis with others every day. The protection guaranteed…

Continuing Legal Education, Education, Law School

Our Rights, Our Freedom, Always

As the supervising Tutor of the Human Rights Law Clinic of the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago, I had the opportunity to…

Criminal, Law Made Simple

Police powers of search and seizure

There may be circumstances when the police have the power to enter premises and search them with a view to either arresting someone, seizing items…

Human Rights, Labour and Employment, Law Made Simple

The Hijab: No place in the workplace?

Professional women’s clothing is a multi-billion dollar industry, which dominates almost every high street across the world. But the Western world has been slow to…