IN ENGLAND: African American teenager has become the youngest person to qualify as a barrister (Lawyer) in 600 years

Gabrielle Turnquest is now
 planning to return to her native
America to qualify as a lawyer there

A teenager has become the youngest person to qualify as a barrister in the 600 year history of the profession – so she can work in the Bahamas. American student Gabrielle Turnquest was called to the Bar of England and Wales after passing her exams at just 18. The average lawyer undertakes the Bar Professional Training Course when they are 27.

However, the young high-flyer will not go on to work in the UK as she wants to return to her native America to qualify as a lawyer there. But her success means she is also called to the Bahamas Bar, the country of her parents, and she hopes to work there.

Gabrielle took the course, at the University of Law, along with her sister Kandi, who also passed her exams but at the ripe old age of 22. The teenager, who is originally from Windermere, Florida, hopes eventually to be a fashion law specialist. Read More...