This website provides information on the history and structure of the Cayman Islands courts. There are profiles of the judges, information on the work of the various committees and professional directories of law firms, Justices of the Peace, licensed attorneys and Notaries Public. A link is given to Cayman Island law reports which are available via the vLex subscription database.
Part of WorldLII's Countries service containing links to internet resources for the Cayman Islands, the British dependency in the West Caribbean. Link collections provide access to Cayman Islands Government and Legislation sites. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to the Cayman Islands on all of WorldLII. The WorldLII service presents a global index and search engine for law, developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Web portal of the Cayman Islands government. The Cayman Islands are a British dependency consisting of 3 islands in the western Caribbean. The website provides information about the structure of government and the judiciary and provides links to government departments and services. Profiles are given for members of the Legislative Assembly along with details of chief officers and justices of the peace.
CariLaw is a subscription database of Commonwealth Caribbean primary legal materials, produced by the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies in partnership with legal technology company vLex. The database provides access to legislation, treaties and case law from the Privy Council, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Judgements on the site include those decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Supreme or High courts of the various Caribbean jurisdictions.
Online guide to researching Caribbean law written by Yemisi Dina who is Head of Public Services at the Osgoode Hall Law Library, York University, Ontario in Canada. The guide is published on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author covers all the dependent and independent Caribbean states describing their legal and court systems, sources of legislation and law reports.
The Caribbean Law Project provides access to the legal materials of Caribbean countries via CommonLII, the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute website. The collection includes databases of cases and legislation from: Anguilla; Antigua & Barbuda; the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Dominica; Grenada; Guyana; Jamaica; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent & the Grenadines; Trinidad & Tobago. It is also possible to search external legal websites listed on the catalogue pages of each of the Caribbean jurisdictions.
Website of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC), a body set up under the 2009 Constitution to advise the Governor of the Cayman Islands on judicial appointments and appointment of the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, magistrates and other legal public offices. The site has a copy of the Cayman Islands Constitution and the sections that apply to the JLSC. There are profiles of present and past members of the Commission, the Code of Conduct of the Cayman Islands judiciary and a copy of the complaints procedure.
Walkers Group is a legal and management services firm based in the Cayman Islands, with branches in the British Virgin Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jersey, London and Tokyo. The Library section of their website offers a collection of articles and memoranda on the law of the Cayman Islands, Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and other jurisdictions. These can be browsed or searched. The areas of law covered include companies, partnerships, investments, trusts and property law.
