This is the official website of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), a government agency responsible for producing and disseminating information for the public about the Government of Jamaica. The website provides information about the history of Jamaica, as well as explanations of the roles and structure of the Jamaican Government, including details of the Governor-General, Prime Minister and other Government Ministers.
This is the official site of the Government of Jamaica Cabinet Office, which supports the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Jamaica. The website contains information explaining the function and structure of the Cabinet Office, in addition to information about the role of the Cabinet more broadly. A subsection of the website details the Cabinet Office’s areas of responsibility, of which the three main areas are modernisation, legislation and policies.
This page of the Jamaican Ministry of Justice website provides information on the court system of Jamaica. There are contact details given for all Jamaican courts as well as links to the websites of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Full text (PDF) copies of the Civil Procedure Rules and the Court of Appeal Rules are also provided on the site.
Online version of the Jamaican Constitution of 1962 made freely available on the Political Database of the Americas at Georgetown University in the United States. The Constitution incorporates amendments up to 1999 and includes chapters covering fundamental rights and freedoms, citizenship, role of parliament and the governor-general and the powers of the executive.
Online guide to Jamaican law and legal system written by Jeanne Slowe and Claudette Solomon who are law librarians at the Mona Faculty of Law Library at the University of the West Indies. The guide was published in 2012 (and updated in 2014) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The authors provide information on the Jamaican legal system, administration of justice, the court structure and legal education.
Part of WorldLII's Countries service covering Jamaica. Browse and search features are provided. Link collections include materials relating to the Courts and Case law, Government, Lawyers and Legislation, with specific subject sections dealing with Elections, Foreign Investment and Environment. A stored search will automatically query all of WorldLII for items about Jamaica. The WorldLII service is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) is a cooperative legal information initiative led by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) providing access to freely available legal materials from all Commonwealth countries. CommonLII contains over 400 databases providing case law, legislation, treaties and law reform reports from more than 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories.
Official Website of the Ministry of Justice in Jamaica. The site provides background information, an organisation chart and contact details for the different agencies and departments of the Ministry including the Administrator-General's Department, the Dispute Resolution Foundation and the Legal Aid Council. There is a guide to the Jamaican court system and an online copy of the most recent annual Court Report. The Laws of Jamaica can also be searched or browsed on the site.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is a regional judicial tribunal established in 2001. It replaced the Privy Council as the final court of appeal for member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 2005. The court's website provides its judgments from 2005 onwards, together with legislation, court rules, papers and articles. There is also background information about the CCJ and its jurisdiction and its judges.
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.
