The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles and part of the West Indies.
Her Majesty's Government of the Virgin Islands is the democratically elected government of the British Overseas Territory of the British Virgin Islands. It is regulated by the Constitution of the British Virgin Islands.
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories. It has unlimited jurisdiction in each member State.
Cherno Sulayman JallowQC is a Gambian lawyer and judge who serves as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia. He previously served as Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2007.
Adrian Dudley Saunders is a judge from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Since 2005, he has been a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Dame Janice Mesadis Pereira, DBE is the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. She became the first female Chief Justice and the first person from the British Virgin Islands to become Chief Justice in 2012.
Keith Thom is a Guyanese lawyer who has been a judge in Antigua and Barbuda and on the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Margaret A. Price Findlay is a Trinidad and Tobago lawyer and judge. She has worked primarily in the British Virgin Islands, and since 2009, she has been a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Francis Belle is a Barbadian lawyer and judge who has worked as a lawyer and a judge in a number of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean.
M. E. Birnie Stephenson-Brooks is a Guyanese lawyer and judge who has worked in a number of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean.
Brian Cottle is a lawyer and judge from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who has worked in a number of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean.
His Lordship Justice Albert Redhead was a Grenadian lawyer and judge who worked in many of the Commonwealth countries of the Caribbean.
Sir Lascelles Lister Robotham was a Jamaican lawyer and judge who worked in a number of Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean. He was Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court from 1984 until his retirement in 1991.
Myron Walwyn is the former Minister of Education and Culture and a Territorial At-Large Representative of the British Virgin Islands He was elected as an "at-large" representative in the 2011 British Virgin Islands general election, garnering 4,605 votes, the 2nd highest number of votes in the election. He is a member of the National Democratic Party. Prior to election, he was appointed the Chairman of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board.
Dr. Joseph Samuel Archibald, QC was a Saint Kittitian-born British Virgin Islander jurist, lawyer, registrar, magistrate, former Director of Public Prosecutions, and former Attorney General.
The judiciary of British Virgin Islands is based on the judiciary of the United Kingdom. The British Virgin Islands is a member state of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. The courts are organized at four levels, including the provision for final appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
Soraya Diase Coffelt is a lawyer and former judge of the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court. She was the first woman and first Hispanic from St. Thomas to serve as a judge. She served not only as a trial judge, but also as an appellate court judge, hearing and deciding appeals from the Superior Court on St. Croix. During her years of judicial service and afterwards, Diase Coffelt promoted the improvement of the local judicial system through the development of an autonomous Virgin Islands court system, which included the establishment of its own supreme court. Her master’s thesis, advocating the establishment of a supreme court, was used as a guideline by Virgin Islands lawmakers to create the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in 2004. Diase Coffelt also developed the V.I. High School Moot Court Competition in 1994, which is an annual, interscholastic competition for high school seniors, with winners receiving college scholarships. The competition has been sponsored by the Virgin Islands Bar Association and the courts. In May, 2013, the Virgin Islands Bar Association presented Diase Coffelt with an award for her valuable contributions to the people of the Virgin Islands.
Ingrid A. Moses-Scatliffe is a lawyer and politician in the British Virgin Islands. She has served as Speaker of the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands since December 2011.
Sylvia Judith Bertrand was a Dominican civil servant who went on to earn a law degree in Dominica and serve as the Director of Public Prosecution. She served as Solicitor General for Dominica and later as High Court Judge for Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the British Virgin Islands on the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
