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British Virgin Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom)



CONSTITUTION

* The Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976 (as Amended) (British Virgin Islands Government) U.K. Statutory Instruments 1976, No. 2145

EXECUTIVE

* Governor represents the British monarchy
* Chief Minister and Cabinet
* Government

JUDICIAL

* COURTS: Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal; Magistrate's Court; Juvenile Court; Court of Summary Jurisdiction

LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Legislative Council


LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: British Virgin Islands (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
* FindLaw: Virgin Islands
* Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina via GlobaLex) May 2006
* World Legal Information Institute: British Virgin Islands (WorldLII)


GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Library of Congress) November 1987
* Portals to the World: Virgin Islands (British) (Library of Congress)
* Consular Information Sheet: British Virgin Islands (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Governments on the WWW: British Virgin Islands (Gunnar Anzinger)
* NEWS: BBC World Americas
* World Factbook: British Virgin Islands (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: British Virgin Islands (Google); British Virgin Islands (Yahoo)