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Attorney General’s Chambers of Montserrat

Official website of the Attorney General of Montserrat who is the Government’s chief legal adviser. The site provides access to all laws in force in Montserrat including acts, statutory instruments and statutory rules and orders. The Acts section has full text (PDF) legislation contained in the 2008 Revised Edition of the Laws of Montserrat along with amendments and new acts passed since 2008. The Omitted Laws section contains all laws excluded from the last revised edition of laws.

Constitution of Montserrat

Full text (PDF) copy of the 2010 Montserrat Constitution made freely available online by the Montserrat Constitution and Commissions’ Secretariat. Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. The Constitution contains sections dealing with the fundamental rights and freedoms, the Executive, the judiciary and the role of the Governor.

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Bar Association

Website for the professional organisation of legal practitioners and representative Bar Associations working within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. The Association draws membership from the Caribbean islands forming the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines) together with Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands. There is a membership listing along with the full-text of the Rules of the Bar Association and Code of Ethics.

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Judgments

Website providing access to the Judgments of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). The ECSC is the superior court for member states of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) including Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Montserrat. Judgments are available from 1996 onwards and can be searched using a simple or advanced search option. Judgements can be viewed in full-text in PDF or HTML formats. Recent judgements are listed separately.

World Law: Montserrat

Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering Montserrat, the British dependent territory in the East Caribbean. The site offers browse and search facilities including links to Case Law and Banking and Finance resources for Montserrat along with a stored search to automatically query all of WorldLII for materials relating to Montserrat . WorldLII was created and is being developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

Caribbean Court of Justice

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- 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.

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.

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