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  title info:
    title: Commonwealth Caribbean law and legal systems
  name:
    name part: Antoine, Rose-Marie Belle.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxix, 447 pages)
  table of contents: The historical function of law in the West Indies : creating a future from a troubled past -- Legal traditions : types of legal systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean -- The hybrid legal systems of St Lucia and Guyana -- The reception or imposition of English law and its significance to Caribbean jurisdictions -- Introduction to sources of law -- The written constitution as a legal source -- The common law and the operation of the doctrine of judicial precedent in the commonwealth Caribbean -- Equity as a source of law -- Custom as a source of law -- Convention as a source of law -- International law as a source of law -- Legislation as a source of law -- Statutory interpretation -- The court system of the Commonwealth Caribbean -- The Privy Council -- The renewed inititative towards a Caribbean court of justice -- Specialised courts, tribunals and functions -- The jury system -- The office of the ombudsman -- Alternative dispute mechanisms : arbitration, negotiation and commissions of inquiry.
  note: Rose-Marie Belle Antoine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 435-439) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: cc-----
  subject:
    topic: Law
    geographic: West Indies, British
  classification: KGL5097 .A58 2008
  classification: 349.729
  identifier: 9781859418536 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1859418538 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2007036111
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007036111.html
  identifier: http://vlex.com/source/54502
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    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 070831
    record change date: 20170324091724.0
    record identifier: vLex4161
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng