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• Introduction to law and legal systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• The historical function of law in the West Indies : creating a future from a troubled past
• Legal traditions : types of legal systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• The hybrid legal systems of St Lucia and Guyana
• The reception or imposition of law and its significance to Caribbean jurisdictions
• Introduction to sources of law
• The written constitution as a legal source
• The common law and the operation of the doctrine of judicial precedent in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• Equity as a source of law
• Custom as a source of law
• Convention as a source of law
• International law as a source of law
• Legislation as a source of law
• Statutory interpretation
• The court system of the Commonwealth Caribbean
• The Privy Council
• The renewed initiative towards a Caribbean court of justice
• Specialised courts, tribunals and functions
• The jury system
• The office of the ombudsman
• Alternative dispute mechanisms : arbitration, negotiation and commissions of inquiry.

• The nature and functions of law
• the role of law in Commonwealth Caribbean Society
• the classification of legal systems into legal traditions
• identifying legal traditions
• the reception of law and its significance to Caribbean jurisprudence
• the advent of the written constitution
• the common law and equity
• custom as a source of law
• international law and the law of caricom
• legislation
• delegated legislation and the ultra vires principle
• statutory interpretation
• courts structure and jurisdiction
• judicial committee of the privy council as a final court of appeal - problems and prospects
• role and relevance of the jury system.
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This text traces the law and legal systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean and its development from the common law system. The legal and historical sources of law are discussed, covering jurisprudence, custom and law of caricom. The administration of justice is also explored.
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This is a study of women and the law.
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• Introduction
• A myth
• A territory
• A people
• A language
• A brand
• A region.

"How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justice (a judicial institution responsive to the region, not any single nation) offer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity? Joining the CCJ as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied the work of the Court up close: she attended each court hearing and numerous staff meetings, served on committees, assisted with the organization of conferences, and helped to prepare speeches and presentations for the judges. She now offers insight into not only how the Court positions itself vis-à-vis the Caribbean region and the world, but also whether the Court (and, perhaps, the region itself as an overarching construct) might ever achieve a real measure of popular success. In their quest for an accepting, eager constituency, the Court is undertaking a project of extra-judicial region-building that borrows from the toolbox of the nation-state. In each chapter, Cabatingan takes us into an analytical dimension familiar from studies of nation and state-building-myth, territory, people, language, and brand-to help us understand not only the Court and its ambitions, but also the regionalist project, beset as it is with false starts and disappointments, as a potential alternative to the sovereign state"-- Provided by the publisher.

• Introduction
• A myth
• A territory
• A people
• A language
• A brand
• A region

• Introduction.
• Chapter 1: The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies, 1500s-1700s.
• Chapter 2: The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies 1600s.
• Chapter 3: The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and their reverberations, 1660s-1700s.
• Chapter 4: The tole of legal transplantation within manumission law and other ameliorative measures.
• Chapter 5: Legal transplantation within post-emancipatory British West Indies, 1830s-1870s. Conclusion.
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"This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-Speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these "borrowed" laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies"-- Provided by publisher