By: Staff Writer
October 22, 2024
A promising young lawyer in the Turks and Caicos Islands is making his way up the ladder of success through dedication and humility so he can help his community the best way he can.
Lemelko Missick, a lawyer at the TCI based Stanbrook Prudhoe, told Caribbean Magazine Plus that his journey to the law came from a very awkward beginning having worked in the tourism industry and finding a way to his dream of becoming a member of Lincoln’s Inn.
Missick said: “I completed my associate degree in Business Studies at the TCI Community College. And thereafter, I applied to Oxford Brooks University for the LLB program. And then, upon completing that, I pursued my bar professional training course at the University of Law at their campus in Birmingham.
It was “part of the journey,” to go from studying legal theory at Oxford Brookes to the practical Bar School at their Birmingham campus was quite the experience, something he was up to the task for because he knew he wanted to become a lawyer. “Going from the LLB to bar school was not a challenge, but more like an evolution to becoming a lawyer,” he said.
Missick also said: “I think Oxford Brookes equipped me well to work at a law firm, because I was able to ascertain the core skills that I that I needed to practice at the bar.
“For example, advocacy is one of the modules that we had to undertake during my bar studies. Drafting is another module that we took that prepared me for drafting and practice ethics, which is very important. Because, as an attorney, every day, you have to be guided by those ethical principles, so that was one of the modules that I had to take as well.
“We did opinion writing where we would be required to draft opinions based on whatever inquiries the clients would have had.”
Litigation is Lemelko’s career path, and he focuses on disputes in the areas of administrative law, immigration, civil and commercial law.
The future is bright for Lemelko, but he does not have any aspirations for political office, opting to leave the matter up for the God’s to decide if he should get involved in the political fray in TCI. “Politics at the moment is not a focus of mine. Politics is one thing, but I feel that as an advocate I think I can make real change and contribute to my community outside of politics,” he said.