The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ; Dutch:Caribisch Hof van Justitie; French:Cour Caribéenne de Justice) is the judicial institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Established in 2001, it is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The CCJ sits at 134 Henry Street in Port of Spain.
In its original jurisdiction, the CCJ interprets and applies the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (which established the Caribbean Community), and is an international court with compulsory and exclusive jurisdiction in respect of the interpretation of the treaty.
In its appellate jurisdiction, the CCJ hears appeals as the court of last resort in both civil and criminal matters from those member states which have ceased to allow appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). As of March 2015, Barbados, Belize, Dominica and Guyana have replaced the JCPC's appellate jurisdiction with that of the CCJ.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), officially just the Court of Justice (French: Cour de Justice), is the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union it is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its equal application across all EU member states. The Court was established in 1952 and is based in Luxembourg. It is composed of one judge per member state – currently 28 – although it normally hears cases in panels of three, five or 13 judges. The court has been led by president Koen Lenaerts since 2015.
History
The court was established in 1952, by the Treaty of Paris (1951) as part of the European Coal and Steel Community. It was established with seven judges, allowing both representation of each of the six member States and being an unequal number of judges in case of a tie. One judge was appointed from each member state and the seventh seat rotated between the "large Member States" (Germany, France and Italy). It became an institution of two additional Communities in 1957 when the European Economic Community (EEC), and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) were created, sharing the same courts with the European Coal and Steel Community.
The Caribbean (/ˌkærᵻˈbiːən/ or /kəˈrɪbiən/; Spanish:Caribe; Dutch:Caraïben; Caribbean Hindustani: कैरिबियन (Kairibiyana); French:Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean), and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.
Caribbean is a 2004 board game designed by Michail Antonow and Jens-Peter Schliemann.
Rules
Caribbean is a game for two to four players, taking place in the Caribbean in the 18th century. Six pirate ships, named Arriba, Bravo, Caribic, Diabolo, Evita and Fuego, sail the waters, intent on plundering treasure from ports both on the continent and on several islands. The players are looking to make as much profit as possible from this plundering.
However, the players do not have direct control over the ships - their pirate crews work independently, and so the players have to bribe them with barrels of rum to get to issue them orders. To this end, each player has seven cards, each containing a different number of barrels. Six of these are numbered from 0 to 5, and the seventh is a special "robber" card, numbered -1.
At the start of a round, each player assigns six of their cards, in secret, to the six pirate ships, deciding on how much rum they want to bribe each ship's crew with. After this, the players go through the ships one by one, revealing their bribes for the ship in question. The player with the highest bribe gets to move the ship, as many places as there are barrels on their bribe card. In case of a tie, the players may opt to reveal their seventh card as a tie-breaker. This tie-breaker may only be used once per round. If another player has assigned the "robber" card to the ship in question, one barrel of rum is stolen from the player with the highest bribe.
A Caribbean person or West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the Caribbean region or a person of Caribbean descent. The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Carib and Arawak groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of overwork and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Arawak and Carib tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Native American ancestry.
As the Caribbean Court of Justice’s 2021/2022 Court Term opened on Monday 4 October, the Court President, the Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Saunders issued a message which summarises the work of the Court for the 2020/2021 year and how the work of the organisation, impacts citizens of the Caribbean Community.
published: 04 Oct 2021
Caribbean Court of Justice - CCJ, Get the Facts Part 1 - March 18, 2015
published: 18 Mar 2015
Case Management Conference TT/N/OJ2024/001 - Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname
The Special Leave Application in the matter Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname comes up for case management on Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 2:00 p.m. AST. The mission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to provide accessible, fair, and efficient justice to the people and states of the Caribbean Community. Access to justice is a fundamental principle of the rule of law. The CCJ recognises the significance of this case to the Parties and the Surinamese people and remains committed to continually enhancing its inclusivity and accessibility. The Court, on its own initiative, has arranged for the interpretation of today’s proceedings in Dutch. The proceedings will be livestreamed in English on the CCJ’s YouTube Channel and in Dutch on the Court’s Facebook Live platform.
published: 11 Oct 2024
How does the CCJ serve the region?
Find out more about the work of the Caribbean Court of Justice and how it serves the people of the region.
published: 05 Oct 2021
CCJ Referral Training Video (Dutch)
A referral from a national court or tribunal is a request for interpretive assistance. It is not an appeal from a national court or tribunal to the CCJ. The referral procedure establishes close cooperation between national courts and tribunals of CARICOM Member States on the one hand and the CCJ on the other, in further developing CARICOM Law.
The Caribbean Court of Justice officially launched its Referral Manual on 28 October 2022 in Saint Lucia at the 7th Biennial Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference.
This project is co-funded by the European Union.
published: 15 Jun 2023
Meet the teams for the 14th Annual CCJ International Law Moot!
Meet the competitors from the 7 institutions:
Department of Law, Anton de Kom, University of Suriname
Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas
Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago
Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica
Department of Law, University of Guyana
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona campus
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus
published: 06 Mar 2024
Hearing of Originating Application Day 1 - AGOJ2021/001 Ellis Richards & others v Trinidad & Tobago
Over the next two days, the CCJ will hear a matter in its Original Jurisdiction concerning allegations by British American Insurance Company Limited policyholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, who allege that Trinidad and Tobago’s actions to protect the policyholders of CL Financial and certain subsidiaries after its collapse in 2009 was discriminatory and effectively deprived them of adequate and effective redress.
published: 29 Apr 2024
Caribbean Law TV - Caribbean Court of Justice
This video is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in the video are not held by the participants, nor are they to be used to promote any ideology of the opinions shared in the moot. The topics are chosen by the professor to engage students in a lively discussion of current topics in the Caribbean.
published: 18 Oct 2012
Delivery of Judgment in BBCR2023/003 Shawn Andre Weekes v The State
This is a judgment delivery in an Appellate Jurisdiction matter in which Shawn Weekes was convicted and sentenced in May 2021 for the murder of Leo Callendar which took place in October 2000. Mr Weekes now appeals against the order of the Court of Appeal of Barbados which reduced his conviction of murder to manslaughter and resentenced him to serve 9 years imprisonment to run from 28 May 2021.
published: 18 Oct 2024
Lecture Series on the Caribbean Court of Justice
DISCLAIMER: Absolutely no copyright infringement intended.
As the Caribbean Court of Justice’s 2021/2022 Court Term opened on Monday 4 October, the Court President, the Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Saunders issued a message w...
As the Caribbean Court of Justice’s 2021/2022 Court Term opened on Monday 4 October, the Court President, the Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Saunders issued a message which summarises the work of the Court for the 2020/2021 year and how the work of the organisation, impacts citizens of the Caribbean Community.
As the Caribbean Court of Justice’s 2021/2022 Court Term opened on Monday 4 October, the Court President, the Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Saunders issued a message which summarises the work of the Court for the 2020/2021 year and how the work of the organisation, impacts citizens of the Caribbean Community.
The Special Leave Application in the matter Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname comes up for case management on Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 2:00 p.m....
The Special Leave Application in the matter Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname comes up for case management on Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 2:00 p.m. AST. The mission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to provide accessible, fair, and efficient justice to the people and states of the Caribbean Community. Access to justice is a fundamental principle of the rule of law. The CCJ recognises the significance of this case to the Parties and the Surinamese people and remains committed to continually enhancing its inclusivity and accessibility. The Court, on its own initiative, has arranged for the interpretation of today’s proceedings in Dutch. The proceedings will be livestreamed in English on the CCJ’s YouTube Channel and in Dutch on the Court’s Facebook Live platform.
The Special Leave Application in the matter Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname comes up for case management on Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 2:00 p.m. AST. The mission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to provide accessible, fair, and efficient justice to the people and states of the Caribbean Community. Access to justice is a fundamental principle of the rule of law. The CCJ recognises the significance of this case to the Parties and the Surinamese people and remains committed to continually enhancing its inclusivity and accessibility. The Court, on its own initiative, has arranged for the interpretation of today’s proceedings in Dutch. The proceedings will be livestreamed in English on the CCJ’s YouTube Channel and in Dutch on the Court’s Facebook Live platform.
A referral from a national court or tribunal is a request for interpretive assistance. It is not an appeal from a national court or tribunal to the CCJ. The ref...
A referral from a national court or tribunal is a request for interpretive assistance. It is not an appeal from a national court or tribunal to the CCJ. The referral procedure establishes close cooperation between national courts and tribunals of CARICOM Member States on the one hand and the CCJ on the other, in further developing CARICOM Law.
The Caribbean Court of Justice officially launched its Referral Manual on 28 October 2022 in Saint Lucia at the 7th Biennial Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference.
This project is co-funded by the European Union.
A referral from a national court or tribunal is a request for interpretive assistance. It is not an appeal from a national court or tribunal to the CCJ. The referral procedure establishes close cooperation between national courts and tribunals of CARICOM Member States on the one hand and the CCJ on the other, in further developing CARICOM Law.
The Caribbean Court of Justice officially launched its Referral Manual on 28 October 2022 in Saint Lucia at the 7th Biennial Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference.
This project is co-funded by the European Union.
Meet the competitors from the 7 institutions:
Department of Law, Anton de Kom, University of Suriname
Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas
Hugh Wooding Law Sc...
Meet the competitors from the 7 institutions:
Department of Law, Anton de Kom, University of Suriname
Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas
Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago
Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica
Department of Law, University of Guyana
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona campus
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus
Meet the competitors from the 7 institutions:
Department of Law, Anton de Kom, University of Suriname
Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas
Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago
Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica
Department of Law, University of Guyana
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona campus
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus
Over the next two days, the CCJ will hear a matter in its Original Jurisdiction concerning allegations by British American Insurance Company Limited policyholde...
Over the next two days, the CCJ will hear a matter in its Original Jurisdiction concerning allegations by British American Insurance Company Limited policyholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, who allege that Trinidad and Tobago’s actions to protect the policyholders of CL Financial and certain subsidiaries after its collapse in 2009 was discriminatory and effectively deprived them of adequate and effective redress.
Over the next two days, the CCJ will hear a matter in its Original Jurisdiction concerning allegations by British American Insurance Company Limited policyholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, who allege that Trinidad and Tobago’s actions to protect the policyholders of CL Financial and certain subsidiaries after its collapse in 2009 was discriminatory and effectively deprived them of adequate and effective redress.
This video is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in the video are not held by the participants, nor are they to be used to promote any ideology ...
This video is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in the video are not held by the participants, nor are they to be used to promote any ideology of the opinions shared in the moot. The topics are chosen by the professor to engage students in a lively discussion of current topics in the Caribbean.
This video is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in the video are not held by the participants, nor are they to be used to promote any ideology of the opinions shared in the moot. The topics are chosen by the professor to engage students in a lively discussion of current topics in the Caribbean.
This is a judgment delivery in an Appellate Jurisdiction matter in which Shawn Weekes was convicted and sentenced in May 2021 for the murder of Leo Callendar wh...
This is a judgment delivery in an Appellate Jurisdiction matter in which Shawn Weekes was convicted and sentenced in May 2021 for the murder of Leo Callendar which took place in October 2000. Mr Weekes now appeals against the order of the Court of Appeal of Barbados which reduced his conviction of murder to manslaughter and resentenced him to serve 9 years imprisonment to run from 28 May 2021.
This is a judgment delivery in an Appellate Jurisdiction matter in which Shawn Weekes was convicted and sentenced in May 2021 for the murder of Leo Callendar which took place in October 2000. Mr Weekes now appeals against the order of the Court of Appeal of Barbados which reduced his conviction of murder to manslaughter and resentenced him to serve 9 years imprisonment to run from 28 May 2021.
As the Caribbean Court of Justice’s 2021/2022 Court Term opened on Monday 4 October, the Court President, the Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Saunders issued a message which summarises the work of the Court for the 2020/2021 year and how the work of the organisation, impacts citizens of the Caribbean Community.
The Special Leave Application in the matter Derek Anand Ramsamooj v The State of Suriname comes up for case management on Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 2:00 p.m. AST. The mission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to provide accessible, fair, and efficient justice to the people and states of the Caribbean Community. Access to justice is a fundamental principle of the rule of law. The CCJ recognises the significance of this case to the Parties and the Surinamese people and remains committed to continually enhancing its inclusivity and accessibility. The Court, on its own initiative, has arranged for the interpretation of today’s proceedings in Dutch. The proceedings will be livestreamed in English on the CCJ’s YouTube Channel and in Dutch on the Court’s Facebook Live platform.
A referral from a national court or tribunal is a request for interpretive assistance. It is not an appeal from a national court or tribunal to the CCJ. The referral procedure establishes close cooperation between national courts and tribunals of CARICOM Member States on the one hand and the CCJ on the other, in further developing CARICOM Law.
The Caribbean Court of Justice officially launched its Referral Manual on 28 October 2022 in Saint Lucia at the 7th Biennial Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference.
This project is co-funded by the European Union.
Meet the competitors from the 7 institutions:
Department of Law, Anton de Kom, University of Suriname
Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas
Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago
Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica
Department of Law, University of Guyana
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona campus
Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus
Over the next two days, the CCJ will hear a matter in its Original Jurisdiction concerning allegations by British American Insurance Company Limited policyholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, who allege that Trinidad and Tobago’s actions to protect the policyholders of CL Financial and certain subsidiaries after its collapse in 2009 was discriminatory and effectively deprived them of adequate and effective redress.
This video is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in the video are not held by the participants, nor are they to be used to promote any ideology of the opinions shared in the moot. The topics are chosen by the professor to engage students in a lively discussion of current topics in the Caribbean.
This is a judgment delivery in an Appellate Jurisdiction matter in which Shawn Weekes was convicted and sentenced in May 2021 for the murder of Leo Callendar which took place in October 2000. Mr Weekes now appeals against the order of the Court of Appeal of Barbados which reduced his conviction of murder to manslaughter and resentenced him to serve 9 years imprisonment to run from 28 May 2021.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ; Dutch:Caribisch Hof van Justitie; French:Cour Caribéenne de Justice) is the judicial institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Established in 2001, it is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The CCJ sits at 134 Henry Street in Port of Spain.
In its original jurisdiction, the CCJ interprets and applies the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (which established the Caribbean Community), and is an international court with compulsory and exclusive jurisdiction in respect of the interpretation of the treaty.
In its appellate jurisdiction, the CCJ hears appeals as the court of last resort in both civil and criminal matters from those member states which have ceased to allow appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). As of March 2015, Barbados, Belize, Dominica and Guyana have replaced the JCPC's appellate jurisdiction with that of the CCJ.
In this May 17, 2019 video grab, JacquelineGraham, registrar and chief marshal, CaribbeanCourt of Justice (CCJ), addresses a ceremonial sitting of the court on the occasion of the retirement of Justice David Hayton.