Judiciary of the British Virgin Islands

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.

In the addition, the Commercial division of the Supreme Court also sits in the British Virgin Islands.

Although the Commercial Court may hear cases from any of the nine member jurisdictions of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in practice for a number of different reasons the Commercial division's work is predominately from the British Virgin Islands.

[11] The Court of Appeal rotates through the Caribbean member states, and usually sits in the British Virgin Islands twice a year.

No cases relating to the British Virgin Islands have yet been heard by the European Court of Human Rights, but in a British Virgin Islands case the court noted the tension between certain provisions of the Convention and the Eastern Caribbean Civil Procedure Rules.