Anguilla

• The Anguilla Constitution, the highest local law
• Laws made by the House of Assembly, and English common law and equity
• Decisions of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and the Privy Council

• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, the final court
• The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court: the Court of Appeal and the High Court
• The Magistrate's Court

A law degree and a legal education certificate from a regional law school, then admission by the High Court.

• A Governor, appointed by the King, keeps responsibility for defence, foreign affairs and security.
• It shares a supreme court with several independent states and other territories.
• Final appeals are heard in London.

Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, United Kingdom

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Anguilla as: Common law. It names the systems in order of importance.

The map colours a country by the first-named system, and shows both civil-law and common-law countries as “mixed”. It is a simplification, and real systems are rarely pure.

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Cook Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, Grenada, India, Ireland, Jamaica.

• JuriGlobe: world legal systems (University of Ottawa)
• Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.