Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• The Constitution of 1979, the highest law
• Acts of Parliament, and English common law and equity
• Decisions of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and of the Privy Council

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

A law degree and a legal education certificate, then admission to practise by the High Court.

• It spreads over a main island and a chain of small islands, but has one legal system.
• The supreme court is shared with other Eastern Caribbean states and territories.
• It is a monarchy, with the King represented by a Governor-General.

Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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.

• Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
• JuriGlobe: world legal systems (University of Ottawa)
• Constitute Project: constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.