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The Caribbean Court of Justice: A New Judicial Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Désirée P. Bernard
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The inauguration of the Caribbean Court of Justice in April 2005 represented the culmination of aspirations in earlier years to establish a court of last resort for the Caribbean Region to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (The Privy Council) which was and still is for most Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions, the final court. These aspirations were endorsed by the legal profession through the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations (OCCBA) over thirty years ago, although the idea of such a court was not an original one having been contemplated early in the last century. The court was envisaged as a Caribbean Court of Appeal with an appellate jurisdiction hearing appeals from domestic appellate courts and an original jurisdiction to interpret regional treaties.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , Summer 2009 , pp. 219 - 238
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Copyright © 2009 by the International Association of Law Libraries. 

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