LTI aims to take new trainee lawyers next month

By DYLAN MURRAY
THE LEGAL Training Institute (LTI) expects to take in trainee lawyers early next month.
LTI director Angelyn Paranda said it depended on when LTI’s council would sit.
“We hope to start in late April or early May, but it depends on when the council meets,” she said.
Paranda said with last year’s trainees admitted, they were going to go into screening.
“We hope for the council to meet at the end of April so we can start as soon as possible.”
She added that students of the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Law were told of the additional requirements to get into LTI.
She said they were told they had to sit for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test and score the required grade point average.
“We’ve reverted to the original GPA requirement of 2.75,” she said.
“There’s a need to do that now with the concern of the fraternity to lift the standard of the lawyers who are being admitted to the bar.”