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Advisory Opinion of the Caribbean Court of Justice in Response to a Request from the Caribbean Community (Caribbean Ct. J.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2020

Stephen Vasciannie*
Affiliation:
Ambassador Stephen Vasciannie is Professor of International Law, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and former member, United Nations International Law Commission (2007–2012).

Extract

An Appellate Jurisdiction, which addresses municipal law cases on appeal from countries which accept this jurisdiction. To date, four Caribbean countries—Barbados, Guyana, Belize and Dominica—have accepted the appellate jurisdiction of the Court. The applicable law for each case under the appellate jurisdiction is the national law of the state from which the appeal emanates. The CCJ in its Appellate Jurisdiction is intended to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the final court of appeal for Caribbean countries which were formerly British colonies.

Type
International Legal Documents
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 by The American Society of International Law

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References

ENDNOTES

1 Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Court of Justice [hereinafter CCJ Agreement], Part III, Art. XXV, ccj.org/court-instruments/the-agreement-establishing-the-ccj.

2 Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean Community Including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, caricom.org/documents/4906-revised_treaty-text.pdf.

3 CCJ Agreement, supra note 1, Part II, Arts. XI–XXIV.

4 Id., Art. XVII (1).

5 [2020] CCJ 1 (OJ)(AO), https://ccj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-CCJ-1-OJ.pdf [hereinafter Advisory Opinion].

6 Id. ¶¶ 10–11.

7 Id. ¶ 9.

8 Id.

9 Id. ¶ 10.

10 Id., unnumbered paragraph immediately preceding ¶ 38.

11 Id., unnumbered paragraph immediately preceding ¶ 57.

12 Id. ¶ 45.

13 Id. ¶ 46.

14 Id. ¶ 47.

15 Id. ¶ 48.

16 Id. ¶ 49.

17 Id. ¶¶ 49–53.

18 Id. ¶¶ 53–56.

19 Id. ¶ 56.

20 Id. ¶ 66.

21 Id. ¶ 60.

22 Id. ¶¶ 61–62.

23 Id. ¶ 63.

24 Id. ¶¶ 3–5.

25 Id. ¶¶ 39–42.

26 Id. ¶¶ 57–58.

27 Id. ¶ 54.