Jamaica

Government Departments and Institutions:

  1. Government of Jamaica (with links to Ministries/Agencies)

  2. Cabinet

Legislation:

  1. Jamaican Constitution
  2. Jamaican Constitution in a nutshell
  3. Constitution
    [Overview and full text of Jamaican constitution]
  4. Jamaican Legislation
  5. Overview of main environmental legislation
  6. Copyright Act 1993
  7. Electronic Trading Rules of the Jamaica Stock Exchange

Treaties:

  1. Agreement between the Government of Jamaica and the Government of the Argentine Republic on the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments, 8 February 1994
  2. Treaty between the United States of America and Jamaica Concerning the Reciprocal Encouragement and Protection of Investment, 4 February 1994
  3. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 1886, October 2, 1979

Tax Treaties (Double Taxation Agreements):

  1. Jamaica - UK (Double Taxation Agreement)

Judgments:

  1. Privy Council Decisions
    [All decisions for 1999 and 2000 and selected decisions from prior to 1999]

Junior Reid, Roy Dennis and Oliver Whylie v The Queen and Errol Reece, Robert Taylor and Delroy Quelch v The Queen (27 July 1989)

Reid, Roy Dennis and Oliver Whylie v. The Queen and Errol Reece, Robert Taylor and Delroy Quelch v. The Queen (Jamaica) [1989] UKPC 1 (27th July, 1989)

Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica and another (Appeal No 10 of 1993) (2 November 1993)

Rupert Crosdale v The Queen (Appeal No 13 of 1994) (6 April 1995)

Michael Gayle v The Queen (Appeal No 40 of 1995) (12 June 1996)

Air Jamaica Limited v Joy Charlton and Others (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 20 (28 April 1999)

Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica Inc v Herbert Broderick (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 9 (20 March 2000)

Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica and another (Jamaica) [1993] UKPC 1 (2 November 1993)

Lewis, Patrick Taylor and Anthony McLeod, Christopher Brown, Desmond Taylor and Steve Shaw v The Attorney General of Jamaica and Another (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 34 (12 September 2000)

West Indies Alliance Insurance Co Ltd v Jamaica Flour Mills Ltd (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 39 (21 July 1999)

Stoeckert v Margie Geddes (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 53 (13 December 1999)

Crosdale v The Queen (Jamaica) [1995] UKPC 1 (6 April 1995)

Crooks v Jennifer Ebanks (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 17 (30 March 1999)

Gayle v The Queen (Jamaica) [1996] UKPC 3 (12 June 1996)

Mitchell v The Queen (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 28 (28 June 1999)

Von Starck v The Queen (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 6 (28 February 2000)

Lambv Midac Equipment Limited (Jamaica) [1999] UKPC 4 (4 February 1999)

Goldson and Devon McGlashan v The Queen (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 12 (23 March 2000)

Reid, Roy Dennis and Oliver Whylie v The Queen and Errol Reece, Robert Taylor and Delroy Quelch v The Queen (Jamaica) [1989] UKPC 1 (27 July 1989)

Chin v Audrey Ramona Chin (Jamaica) [2001] UKPC 7 (12 February 2001)

Flowers v The Queen (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 41 (30 October 2000)

Sykes v The Minister of National Security and Justice and Another and Legal Officers Staff Association v The Minister of National Security and Justice and Another (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 43 (26 October 2000)

Lewis, Patrick Taylor and Anthony McLeod, Christopher Brown, Desmond Taylor and Steve Shaw v The Attorney General of Jamaica and Another (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 35 (12 September 2000)

Lewis, Patrick Taylor and Anthony McLeod, Christopher Brown, Desmond Taylor and Steve Shaw v. The Attorney General of Jamaica and Another (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 35 (12th September, 2000)

Goldson and Devon McGlashan v. The Queen (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 9 (23rd March, 2000)

Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica Inc. v. Herbert Broderick (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 11 (20th March, 2000)

Von Starck v. The Queen (Jamaica) [2000] UKPC 5 (28th February, 2000)

  1. Judgments of the Supreme Court of Jamaica
  2. Smithfield Digest
    [Notes and Indices of Jamaican cases decided by the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Lawyers and Legal Institutions:

  1. Supreme Court of Jamaica
  2. Justice Training Institute
  3. Legal Aid
  4. Dunn, Cox, Orrett & Ashenheim
  5. Myers Fletcher & Gordon (MFG)
  6. Nunes, Scholefield, Deleon & Co

Legal Articles:

General:

  1. Email Addresses of Judges, the Master and Registrars of the Supreme Court of Jamaica
  2. http://www.cabinet.gov.jm/links.htm
  3. National Library of Jamaica
  4. Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA)
  5. Jamaica Stock Exchange