Jamaica

CariLaw- Caribbean Law Project

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.

Supreme Court of Jamaica

The official website of the Supreme Court of Jamaica provides free access to Supreme Court and Appeal Court judgments in PDF format back to 1997. A small number of Jamaican acts and a collection of online civil procedure forms are also made available in full as PDF documents. Background information about plans to computerise the Jamaican courts and details of the court reporting training programme are also given on the website. There is a page of links to other Jamaican government and legal websites.

Guide to Caribbean Law Research

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.

Caribbean Law Project

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.

Jamaican Bar Association

Web pages of the Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) a voluntary body representing Jamaican attorneys-at-law. The site includes brief background information about the JBA and its sub-committees, a news and events page and a list of related web links. There is also joining information and a form to download.

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