Mrs. Audrey Welds, Attorney-at-law, serves as a course director for the Law of Association as well as Law Office Management and Technology. She has also previously served as a tutor in Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities of the Legal Profession.  Called to the Jamaican Bar in 1983, she holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws from The University of the West Indies and Master of Laws from the King’s College, University of London, which she attended on a Commonwealth Scholarship. She also holds a Certificate of Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School from which she graduated in 1982.

Mrs. Welds began her legal career as an Associate at Rattray, Patterson, Rattray, Attorneys-at-law where she practised in Conveyancing and Probate. In 1985, she transitioned to the Bank of Jamaica, from which she was in due course seconded to the Exim-Bank, where she served successively as Assistant Director and Director (Legal).  In 1990, she joined Mutual Security Bank as Assistant Manager, Legal Department and Assistant Corporate Secretary and in 1994 she re-entered private practice, having accepted an invitation to join the firm of DunnCox, Attorneys-at-law, as a partner in the Commercial Department.

Some nine years later, Mrs. Welds’ experience in the areas of corporate and commercial law, combined with her long-held desire to teach, propelled her into the academic world – initially as a lecturer in law in the Department of Management Studies of the UWI and then followed by her current position as Tutor and Course Director at the Norman Manley Law School.

Mrs. Welds has served as a director on the boards of various private sector entities in the areas of education and finance, and as a Commissioner on the Financial Services Commission of Jamaica. She is currently a member of the board of JMMB Group Limited where she also serves on the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee. She is an engaged member of the legal fraternity in Jamaica and participates as an active member of committees of the Accounts and Records Committee and the Proceeds of Crime Committee of the General Legal Council,

Mrs. Welds’ presentations at conferences include:

• “The Regulatory Framework for Lawyers in Jamaica: Has it Passed its “Sell-by Date?” SALISES 50/50, Law and Justice Conference, February 2012, Kingston, Jamaica  2012.
• “The Criminalisation of Breaches of Corporate Duties – Policy Considerations and Caribbean Companies Legislation”, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, October 2008, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
• “Legal Environmental Challenges to Caribbean Economic Integration – Company Law Harmonisation”, Caribbean Studies Association, May 30-June 4. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Her publications include:

• “Deposit Insurance: A Recent Jamaican Phenomenon”, Global Banking and Financial Policy Review (1999).
• “Modernising the Regulatory Framework of the Financial Sector: Jamaica in the 1990’s” (with C. Dennis Morrison, QC), Global Banking and Financial Policy Review (2001).
• “The Criminalisation of Corporate Duties: Policy Considerations and Caribbean Legislation” (An edited version of the conference presentation mentioned above), West Indian Law Journal, May 2009).
• Book chapter entitled “My Word of Honour: Professional Undertakings” in a book entitled “The Ethical Lawyer: A Caribbean Perspective (Shazeeda Ali, Editor) published by Thomson Reuters (Professional UK Limited) trading as Sweet & Maxwell (2015)