Commercial litigation focus: the Bahamas

Commercial litigation focus: the Bahamas

Commercial Litigation

Contributors

Sean N.C. Moree |Erin M. Hill |Peteche A.B. Bethell

Partner, McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes|Associate, McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes|Pupil, McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes

SNMoree@mckinney.com.bs|EMHill@mckinney.com.bs|PABBethell@mckinney.com.bs

Overview of the Bahamian legal system

The Bahamas is a former colony of Great Britain, which attained independence on 10 July 1973 but acknowledges the Queen of England as its constitutional Head of State and maintains its identity as a common law jurisdiction. By the Declaratory Act passed in 1799, the English common law was declared to be the law of The Bahamas along with a superstructure of English statutes to which were added a succession of local statutes enacted by the local Parliament progressively.

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