Law Revision

In 1993, a review of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom identified the need for law reform and law revision in the Caribbean Overseas Territories – including the Cayman Islands. As a result, in 1994 His Excellency the Governor established within the Attorney General’s Chambers , the Law Revision Department and appointed a Law Revision Commissioner.

Since 2002, the Law Revision Commissioner has continued to revise and consolidate all legislation and amendments subsequently made and to incorporate them. Once a revision has been prepared it is submitted to the Attorney-General for presentation by way of Cabinet Paper to the Governor-in-Cabinet for authorization and for re-publication in the revised form pursuant to section 3 of the Law Revision Law. Once Cabinet has advised the Governor that re-publication can take place, the Commissioner facilitates the publication of the law in the Official Gazette.

Departments

• The Attorney General’s Chambers
  • Attorney General
• The Office of the Solicitor General
• Law Reform Commission
  • The Law Reform Process
• Law Revision
  • Current Status of the Law Revision
• Legislative Drafting Department
• Cayman Islands Law School
• Financial Reporting Authority