Jersey

• Laws passed by the States Assembly, with Royal Assent
• Norman customary law, which still governs land, inheritance and some contracts
• English common law and equity, in many areas, especially trusts and commercial law
• Decisions of the Royal Court and the Court of Appeal

• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, the final court
• The Jersey Court of Appeal
• The Royal Court, led by the Bailiff with Jurats, and the Magistrate's Court

A law degree, a bar exam in Jersey law, and admission as an advocate or solicitor by the Royal Court.

• The Clameur de Haro, an old Norman cry, can still be used to stop someone from trespassing on land.
• Its trust law is developed locally and important to its financial industry.
• Its law is not UK law, and Acts of the UK Parliament generally do not apply unless Jersey adopts them.

Guernsey, Isle of Man, United Kingdom, France, Cayman Islands

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Jersey as: Customary. 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.

Andorra, Bhutan, Mongolia, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea.

• JuriGlobe: world legal systems (University of Ottawa)
• Jersey Law

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.