Montserrat

• The Montserrat Constitution Order of 2010, the highest local law
• Laws made by the Legislative 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, then admission by the High Court.

• A volcanic eruption in the 1990s forced much of the population to move, but the legal system carried on.
• It shares a supreme court with several independent states and other territories.
• The Governor has responsibility for external affairs, defence and the police.

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

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Montserrat 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.