Turks and Caicos Islands

• The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order of 2011, the highest local law
• Laws made by the House of Assembly, 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
• The Supreme Court, and the Magistrate's Court

A law degree and a legal education certificate or English qualification, then admission by the Supreme Court.

• Unlike its neighbours in the Eastern Caribbean, it has its own Supreme Court, not the shared one.
• The Governor keeps responsibility for external affairs, defence and the police.
• It has used a temporary form of direct rule from the UK in the past.

Bahamas, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, United Kingdom

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Turks and Caicos Islands 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.