Bermuda

• The Bermuda Constitution Order of 1968, the highest local law
• Acts of the Bermuda Parliament, and English common law and equity
• Decisions of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council

• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, the final court
• The Court of Appeal for Bermuda
• The Supreme Court, and the Magistrates' Courts

A law degree, a legal training course, and admission as a barrister and attorney by the Supreme Court.

• It makes its own laws on insurance and finance, which matter to the global industry.
• Lawyers there are admitted as both barristers and attorneys.
• The Governor keeps responsibility for external affairs, defence and the police.

Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, United Kingdom

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Bermuda 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)
• Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.