Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Virgin Islands (British)) GUIDE: United Kingdom

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• The Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976 (as Amended) (British Virgin Islands Government) U.K. Statutory Instruments 1976, No. 2145

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Governor represents the British monarchy
• Chief Minister and Cabinet
• Government

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal; Magistrate's Court; Juvenile Court; Court of Summary Jurisdiction

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Legislative Council

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: British Virgin Islands (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Virgin Islands
• Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina via GlobaLex) May 2006
• World Law Index: British Virgin Islands (Australasian Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Legal Issues ) November 1987
• Portals to the World: Virgin Islands (British) (Legal Issues )
• Consular Information Sheet: British Virgin Islands (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: British Virgin Islands (Gunnar Anzinger)
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• World Factbook: British Virgin Islands (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: British Virgin Islands (Google); British Virgin Islands (Yahoo)